FOREWORD

by SARAH BURROUGHS

Today, I was called a faggot as I walked down the street. This isn’t the first time that this has happened, or the last time, or even the first time this month. When I looked the group in their eyes to tell them to fuck off, they looked back at me and they started saying, “It looked at me! It looked at me!” before running off. 

I want this magazine to be a space for all of the people called “it” because of cisgender confusion. 

For trannies, faggots, dykes, those who do not fit into a box. Those who have a complicated relationship with their body who like fucked up sex who have abused drugs or alcohol. I want this paper to be a haven, one that does not show the clean-shaven aspects of queer life. Not the “rainbow mafia,” but the gays who fist each other, the lesbians that fuck for hours, the trans people who only date other trans people. It's for furries, for girlfags, for boydykes, for people who use the pronoun “it” because that is how they identify themselves within the binary. It is for the people whose family and friends knew that they were gay before they knew themselves. It is for anyone who differentiates from “polite society.” For the people who, even after going through everything that they’ve gone through, continue to see themselves growing and changing within their identities. 

This magazine is both a celebration of the queer community and a call to action for those within it. Let your voice be heard: safely, anonymously, and without any fear of it coming back to bite you in the ass. Write about your experiences fucking, your experiences with drugs, your weird internet side hobbies. Submit fan-fiction. Submit dick pics. Submit anything that isn’t racist, homophobic, or xenophobic. Everyone who submits to the magazine is required to use a pen name so that the articles you write cannot be traced back to you. 

This is meant to be a radical space. We are entirely handmade and DIY, embodying the spirit of our queer ancestors by creating something divorced from authority. Entirely student-run, and entirely independent.  

Just because we are a queer focused magazine DOES NOT MEAN that we are excluding anyone else. As with any good radical space, we are inclusive - we welcome voices from all marginalized communities. Indigenous people, disabled people, people of color. We want to hear your voice. If you need a safe space to sit for a moment, reflect, and read something new, take a look into the contents of this magazine. And if you want your voice to be heard, submit. 

If you are straight, cisgender, or anything that is seen as “vanilla ,” you are welcome here. Take this as an opportunity to try to understand something that is larger than yourself, something more than what is shown by society as the definitive edition of queerness. Dig deeper into the community as a way to learn more, and understand yourself better.  

The online version of the magazine contains every voice of the orgy: every article, uncut, fresh. It’ll have everything that the print version doesn’t have. The citations, the smaller details. More filth. 

Without further ado, enjoy our first issue. Submit to our second one, and the one after that, and the one after that. 

Much love, and as always, keep it filthy - 

Sarah Burroughs 

Editor-in-chief