Exploring Queer Creativity in Issue One: White Workshop by The Gamut Mag
Workshop announcement and call for submissions for issue one of The Gamut Mag, focusing on queer art and writing related to the color white. Includes guidelines, task prompts, and a creative atmosphere to inspire submissions. Features diverse content and opportunities for artistic expression in a supportive environment.
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issue one: white workshop the gamut mag jesse (founder, poetry reader)
today one-hour-long workshop aimed at helping you produce work, or ideas for work, to submit to issue one: white. examples of queer art or writing, by queer artists prompts or tips drawn from examples creative prompts and time to work on them related music during tasks (if wanted)
guidelines mics off, unless you want to speak cameras on or off at your preference no obligation to speak or share speak or share if you want! be kind and considerate any abuse will get you kicked
call for submissions queer art and writing from queer creatives on the colour white submit up to three pieces poetry, flash fiction, short stories, nonfiction, personal essays, visual art, photography, illustration, songs, music submissions open 1stjanuary 2022 submissions close 31stjanuary 2022 submission guidelines, and how to submit: gamutmag.com/submit/
Hydrocele torrin a. greathouse There are twenty-two distinct variations of the color white: mintcream oldlace ghostwhite honeydew lavenderblush ivory & I am trying to identify the walls of the emergency room. snatching at my naked legs. To ignore the cold
task one (5 minutes) look at the world through a white lens: list things in the world/your life that are white (or black, or greyscale, or silver) questions: what is white around you? inside you? beyond you? where do you find political whiteness white as default, oversaturation, supremacy? what, like the cold, gives off white? follow your senses.
the moon is a lesbian maddie fay the moon is a lesbian, which i know because she has kissed every inch of my body more often than any lover i ve ever known.
texas, december isaura ren Maybe it s in the weather. You sneer snowflake! instead of dyke! Only when it strikes me does your saliva melt. Tender bullet. cw: queer term used as a slur Flurries succumb, gentle as anything, to steaming palms. I reject the notion I am so impermanent.
task two (10 minutes) make the colour white (or grey, black, your chosen shade), or an example from task one, a metaphor for something intangible or abstract (e.g. your queerness, gender, dysphoria, heterosexuality, societal oppression) questions: is white positive or negative to you? is there something you wish you could do with the thing you re metaphorising, if it were tangible? (e.g. pull out dysphoria like teeth) how do you physically interact with it? does it spill out of you? do you pull teeth? is your queerness bodily-tied and therefore undeniable, via your bones?
love with you 1 seosamh lily
task three (10 minutes) retell, or recreate, an event/scene involving whiteness and forefront the whiteness. or its unfolding is like colours are spilling onto a canvas. OR a queer first time. questions: can you hone in on anything you ve explored re: white the feeling of moonlight on skin, anything physical from task two? do you want to find whiteness through metaphor (skin as fragile as porcelain)?
how can you thematise white? talk about things that are white use symbolism that already exists for the colour discuss your experience with political whiteness be meta about the white of the page/canvas, or use a formal practice that uses the colour Hydrocele torrin a. greathouse Declaration Tracy K. Smith Melody Mary Ruefle love with you 1 seosamh lily burst our issue into colour! Hydrocele torrin a. greathouse White Knuckles Maris Egg Rachel Hock White Papers Martha Collins Ekphrasis on My R***** s Wedding Dress torrin a. greathouse Three White Horses Andrew Bird White Justice Alice Bag Dark Skin, Whitening Mask Lamya H Declaration Tracy K. Smith White Justice Alice Bag ynygordna Kelly Williams A Brief History of My Underwear Gerard Wozek
thank you!! best of luck!
