LTTR V

LTTR V :: Positively Nasty

contributors to issue 5 include:::
Alvin Baltrop, Amber Ibarreche, Anna Sew-Hoy,
Anne Hall, Bruce Weist, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer,
Deb Shoval, Donnie & Travis, Edie Fake,
Emily Roysdon, Erika Earl, Fereshteh Toosi,
GB Jones, Guadalupe Rosales, James Tsang,
Jeanine Oleson, Kate Huh, Leander Djønne,
Liz Flyntz, Mariev Robitaille, R.H. Quaytman, Ridykeulous, Shannon Ebner, Shelley Marlow,
Silas Howard, Tania Hammidi, The Third Leg,
Ulrike Müller, Zackary Drucker, and Zoe Leonard

Call LTTR V :: Positively Nasty

Five years young and LTTR was making a trans-oceanic call. in the V of our issues we see both the gap and the abyss. and we beg! come on this rough ride.

facing (face down) a litany of abuses in this modern world, we write to inquire-how are we to keep our nose in the dirt while recognizing world-torn patterns grown down knee deep in sink or stink, this boat floats, take me there I am bumped ashore, I have cruised the abyss, I am crew to your pile, and I am/not (happy) here. I am more than one yet unimaginable to many. I am sure. We are ready. We are positive. I am nasty

when we say NASTY, we mean explicit. Expose your displaced unit. Memorialize your gaycation. Recognize stone blood patterns. Fire your speechwriter. Water the burning hoops as you jump through. Call it out- no more processing- this is Raw. Name it. Rename yourself and face your shit. Take coyotes as ancestors and tell me your demands before you bite me anyway.

POSITIVITY! We want to affirmatively state the stakes. We want to assert the aforementioned gap and thrive in its imagined lands. Let us consider action other than protest. Our subjects sex and subject location. Positivity is an And. A series of exposures, So! show everybody what you can do.

o How have your terrible desires affected your ethics?
o How are we useful and do we want to be?
o Do Histories serve to consolidate or disperse our present anxieties?
o Is this a time for manifestos , swimsuits, vaginas or packages?
o When did you first love an other and what was the manner in which that informed your politics?

POSTMARK DEADLINE was AUGUST 1st, 2006
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