No. 17
DYKE II - She's Back

What's more punk than a dyke? As some of the most powerful people in the world try to turn queer and trans people, women, and people of colour into political playthings, punks fight back, make art, and build community in protest and resistance – an indignant declaration of endurance. For QT's second annual Dyke issue, we sought work that considers the complexity of being a dyke, and connections to punk scenes, art, aesthetics, politics, and organizing. A history of defiance has established dykes as the backbone of queer communities, and in a world gone to shit politically, who couldn't use a little anarchy?
Poetry
Molotov
Short Story
Hard and Dykey
Short Story
Soft and Sapphic
Photography
Bialezzii
Poerty
The Bride
Memoir
First Night at my First Dyke Bar
Painting
STRAP!
Poetry
beautiful boy
Painting
Never Enough
Short Story
The Duality of Dykes / When Dykes Fall in Love They Scrape Their Knees
Creative Nonfiction
Show Up and Dyke Up
Short Story
girlhood revisited in my college bathroom / golden shovel for carmilla
Poetry
the first cut & everything after that for Mic
Painting
Mommy Dearest
Poetry
Mighty Blues
Short Story
Eating Lamb
Short Story
My year as a Dyke
Painting
Who is Justice?
Interview
Dyke Through the Ages
Short Story
To Be a Dyke
Personal Essay
Standing Backwards on the Relationship Escalator: Resisting all that’s Compulsory in Romance
Painting
Joan Dean
Poetry \ Digital Painting
Dykes on Bikes \ Dyke Love