With the news coming out of Iran, I was already beginning to feel the weight of the ongoing disaster in my body.

Nilbar Güreş's “Rose of Sapatão” is the cover art for the June 2020 issue: The Queer Issue XI.During the last months, I’ve been painting at my home studio, which…

Car horns suddenly transformed into instruments of emotion, sirens of mourning.

When I go out with my daughter, I herd her along, trying to keep her two meters away from anyone who approaches.

In Víctor del Árbol's novel Breathing Through the Wound, translated by Lisa Dillman and out this week with Other Press, an artist accepts an unusual commission…

I practiced the art of clairvoyance, / became a sorceress, a witch, a woman

I ask myself / if mother's ban / against confessing / . . . is still in place

They’re as naked as the day they were born

The wisdom gathered from those wanderings is far deeper / Than that of ancient Greece

somewhere in between the promise and the certainty of rain / the bounds of things / —all things, including you— / are blurred

“In the face of the COVID-19 crisis, Buenos Aires Poetry has allowed readers to download almost all of the catalog for free.”

Both list-makers and editors seem to forget that India is in fact a country with 20,000 tongues, which are variations of over 120 distinct languages.

take custody of my mouth

Each month, Tobias Carroll shares a handful of recently released or forthcoming titles in translation that he’s especially excited about. From Milkweed Editions | The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag,…

In Gnaomi Siemens's queer translations of Old English poetry, gender becomes fluid and the female voice proliferates. Today on WWB Daily, Siemens discusses how queer translation can amplify silenced voices and…

Something is always about to happen.

the window frames have become national borders, the doorknob a border guard.

 WWB’s Translator Relay features an interview with a different translator every few months. The current month’s translator will choose the next interviewee, adding a different,…

The characters in the works presented here demand recognition of the full spectrum of Queer experience in often hostile environments.

They looked at me like I was sick.

Aren’t you the one with the tattoos?

She can't count how many times she had silicone applied to her body.

The señora is not going to back down.

She smelled of Schubert.

Have you ever had the feeling that even if you wanted to, you'd never blend in?

A little over ten weeks ago, as borders were closing and our world convulsed in the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked ourselves how we could join together with our readers for solace, stimulation, and contact…

We are bad actors who suddenly find themselves in a leading role.

How do we translate trauma? In this essay, Lara Vergnaud reflects on her experience translating scenes of graphic violence and abuse, and shares strategies that may be useful to other translators.I…

This year, Pride Month comes at a momentous and grief-stricken time. As queer communities around the world take to the streets in the fight for racial justice, many are also working to raise awareness…

What has the coronavirus taken from us? We need to answer this in a way that isn’t expressed through numbers.