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The B'K Magazine
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The B’K is a quarterly art and lit magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all. Own voices only, please. Queer, Trans, ND, and POC led. Founded 2010.

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“I might faint,” you say, pallid-faced, bent over in your chair. Your pajama leg is yanked up to expose the meat of your thigh, the syringe hovering in your trembly hand.

Read more of "Fear of Needles" by Jeanette Barszewski in The B'K Magazine: www.globalmajoritypress.org/the-bk/
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Overlaid is an excerpt from Jeanette.
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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The B'K Volume 16, Issue 4 is here! Check out "Lilac Bruise" by Aicha Benali! This gorgeous digitized sketch is the cover art for The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4. Be sure to read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal.
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Check out the full photo, "In the Body" by Jaina Cipriano in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/the-bk-archi...
A black and white photo of a woman in a jumpsuit walking through her enormous chalk outline.
October 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4 launches on Oct 1! It features poetry by Daniel Aôndona, @daragoodale.bsky.social, Dorothy Lune, Grace K. Schmitt, Hayley Garcia Parnell, @lsparks.bsky.social, Nadia Mustefa, Natalie Gachoka, Saheed Sunday, sofia abbas, and Spencer S.
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Text overlaid is the list of poets featured in the issue. Text at the bottom says These pieces and more launching October 1!
October 1, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Read more by @foreverasheley.bsky.social in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Naa's piece.
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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CW: Historically implied theme of suicide

Once the receptors in my brain have brought me to REM,
I awake to the site of a polished, desolate castle.
I see no cracks along the foundation,
but it is quite easy to make out the gilded nature of that polished door.
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Naa's piece.
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 4 launches on Oct 1! It features cover art from Aicha Benali, as well as art by Amuri Morris and Donald Patten; fiction by Han Nelson, Jeanette Barszewski, and Lyan Angela Agustin; and nonfiction by Gail Kaufman, J. D. Harlock, and Sydney Ronquillo.
Background image is the cover art by Aicha Benali. It features a portrait of a man with medium length hair looking down on the viewer. The illustration takes purples, blues, and pinks as its main colors with highlights of green and teal. Text overlaid is the list of artists, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers featured in the issue. Text at the bottom says These pieces and more launching October 1!
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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documentaries and textbooks will tell you
that what they sing is only a matter of survival:
conveying facts, seducing mates

Read more of "the birds sing a song of revolution" by Audrey T. Carroll in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "the birds sing a song of revolution" by Audrey T. Carroll. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
September 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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start by setting up a macro,
an easy button
to click
at the beginning
of a dungeon, trial, raid.

Read more of "advice for self-introductions in final fantasy xiv, when you play with a disability" by @raynealarcio.bsky.social in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Rayne's piece.
September 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Check out the oil painting "Eternal Embrace " by Amuri Morris in All My Relations, Volume 9! Be sure to review the piece and read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Three African Amercan woman hugging each other in a row. Their skin is rendered but their clothing is simplistic lifework and the blue of the background. The background shifts from white near the top of the womans head to blue.
September 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Cut my lip deep on your shoulder blade
in a dream about hummingbird finger-tipped
calculations of the slope of the lines we crossed.

Read more of "Sentence Structure" by James Roach in The B'K Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of James's piece.
September 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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If a man can kill—
or order the killing of the helpless—
(which, by the way, is the same)
does that make him complicit in the plunder too?

Read more of "Rodrigo Duterte is someone’s father" by Neen Ramos in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "Rodrigo Duterte is someone’s father" by Neen Ramos. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
September 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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CW: Ableism

When I am old, I will not wear purple.
I will be purple. Bruised knuckles from knocking on closed doors,
lip split from biting down words they do not want to hear.

Read more of "Warning" by Aspen Greenwood in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Aspen's piece.
September 25, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.

Read more of "Assata Said" by Leo Rose Rodriguez in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "Assata Said" by Leo Rose Rodriguez. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
September 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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CW: Depictions of sex work

it is a Saturday in April and im standing in the bathtub peeing on my feet for strangers on the screen. “Squat lower...” “Stand up now…” “Oh yeah…” “That’s great…”

Read more by @bretonlikethecape.bsky.social in The B'K Mag: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of breton's piece.
September 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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You stuck your slurs into my skin
when you tried to silence me, afraid of

my aberration.

Read more of "Your Remains are My Religion" by @sarendipitous.bsky.social in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "Your Remains are My Religion" by Sarena Tien. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
September 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Ancestry.com offers me vacation packages to return to my roots,
the 38% of me that burns quickly under the sun, like paper:
slow and unbinding as the flame crawls through wrinkles.

Read more by @poetloz.bsky.social in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Christian's piece.
September 24, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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In the Depression Phase of 2024, we obviously couldn’t repeat the watch history from the Depression Phase of 2023. All Scooby-Doo and Barbie movies had been checked off the watch list.

Read more by Kristia Vasiloff in All My Relations: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "We Are Here" by Kristia Vasiloff. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
September 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Check out the full collage, "The City and a Dream" by Anna Kirby in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
A collage of a woman screaming overlayed against bedroom, with the view of the city outside of the window.
September 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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genocide is also a pandemic
if that word feels
easier to comprehend
through lived experience.

Read more of "art as action" by @jpthorn.bsky.social in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "art as action" by jp thorn. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
September 17, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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you were gibberish chatter in the
only tongue I knew, laughing and snapping
pictures of anything that

fascinated,

Read more of "To the tourists who thought I was part of the scenery," by Rumi Sidhu Petersen in The B'K Mag, Vol 16, Issue 3: www.talbot-heindl.com/bitchin_kitsch
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Rumi's piece.
September 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Check out the Charcoal on paper piece "Rebellious " by Adedeji John in All My Relations, Volume 9! Be sure to review the piece and read the full issue here: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
A charcoal portrait of a girl with a rebellious look on her face looking at the viewer.
September 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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At the Annual Equality & Diversity Summit, four Nectarines and a solitary Lime gather at a round table. Long before Charcuterie boards were trending, the Nectarines’ ancestors had peeled away the idea of other names for the Summit, settling on “Equality & Diversity.”
Image is the cover art by Jennie Cao which features double green self-portraits of the artist where one is whispering into the other's ear. There is a bright sunset and a stormy ocean behind them. Text overlaid is the exerpt of Ya-Tings piece.
September 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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That morning, a boy climbed the roof of a closed-down library and started burning books. He wasn’t hiding. He wasn’t shouting either.

Read more of "Ash Alphabet" by Fendy S. Tulodo in All My Relations, Volume 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "Ash Alphabet" by Fendy S. Tulodo. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
September 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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They named us after survivors. Ybañez — letters twisted to
outrun the persecution. A name that ducked beneath
Moorish steel & sat quietly at the feet of the cross.

Read more of "History & Inheritance" by X. Y. in All My Relations, Vol 9: www.talbot-heindl.com/relations-is...
Image has the All My Relations logo and says Volume 9 Revolution. In a talking bubble, it has the quote from the piece "History & Inheritance" by X. Y. At the bottom is the Global Majority Press logo. Text says Read it all in All My Relations, Volume 9.
September 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM