Editor’s Note

Dear Readers, Viewers, Listeners, & Lovers —

Weaponized, shunned, legislated, scrutinized, censored, and criminalized, the queer body is no stranger to constraint and restriction. And yet, these stigmatized bodies of ours build spaces of joy, power, protest, transformation, and pleasure. For our inaugural Online Exclusives edition of Foglifter, we wanted to showcase queer art that punts the constraints imposed on queer bodies out into the stratosphere and plays with the rules of print media like a jump rope.

Through a digital medium, we can showcase works that grapple with the personal, political, and cultural dimensions of the queer body in ways more expansive and unattainable in traditional print forms. Our contributors grace us with genre-bending poetry and fiction, evocative interactive text explorations, dazzling visuals of queer joy and resistance, and more.

Bodies are sites of power, protest, pleasure, oppression, transformation, and resistance, and in a world where bodies are constantly under judgement and consistently marginalized — especially queer, trans, fat, disabled, racialized, and reproductive bodies — we wanted to create a space for work that responds, reclaims, and reimagines.

Thank you to all of our contributors and everyone this issue reaches. We hope that you find it as powerful and as beautiful as we do. 

With love, 

Jake & Marina