illustrated patchwork quilt with a different scene on each panel, including a sun tattoo, a map of california and texas, a pinky promise, a pitcher pouring out water, a paintbrush with red paint, and a skeleton with an exposed heart.
Poetry
patchwork

This poem was originally published in our Spring 2022 print issue “Reflections of Radiance.”

we are
building a new life
painting a new life
writing a new life

illustrated movie poster reading "jackson harris presents: I hate it that you know me. featuring the heart psychic. magician you don't listen." it depicts a black woman with a magenta afro wearing an off the shoulder deep pink flowy top and gold bangles as she. holds a beating anatomical heart.
Creative Writing
i hate it that you know me

magician you don’t listen
all your tricks have worked on me
I’m in a hundred million pieces and we last spoke in my dreams
please lead me back inside the gardens where our lives and love have peaked

painterly digital artwork depicting a pair of amber eyes with subtle pink eye makeup. their skin is light and their eyebrows are dark brown.
Creative Writing
Aliveness

Artwork by Cole Lopez (They/Them) The morning my grandfather died             I slept. An ocean away I dreamt             that an angel leaned to kiss his cheek And I tried to push it away but instead              I screamed  My hands passing through…

Creative Writing
Isolation Sucks

Isolation sucks! Isolation when I already have abandonment issues, it sucks! Living on the hill during the Spring Quarter is lonely, it sucks! I feel forgotten, it sucks! I need a hug, it sucks! SUCK! SUCK! SUCK! UCLA without my…

Creative Writing
Dear My Oppressors
Creative Writing
They/them

Graphic by Chris Ikonomou   Do you ever look at your reflection and have absolutely no fucking clue who the person is staring back at you?    Sometimes my reflection is a stranger Unfamiliar to me,  and the only thing…

Featured Posts
A rainbow-colored fist made of many smaller fists punches upwards over a dark grey background.
Featured
Stronger Together: The Importance of Community Post-2024 Election
A student member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) speaks at the press conference announcing the lawsuit.
Community
Students and Faculty Sue UC Regents Over Free Speech Infringement During Pro-Palestine Encampment
A group of diverse people standing on a lawn holding Dom Jones for Assembly signs. Among them is Dom Jones, a Black woman with colorfully dyed locs.
Featured
A New Face for OC: Meet Dom Jones
Two women almost kissing on a TV screen with a large superimposed question mark.
Arts & Entertainment
Can Queerbaiting Exist In A World Where Sexuality Is Fluid?
A cartoon of a scared Frankenstein's monster looming over the author, a white man, huddled under the blankets of his bed.
Arts & Entertainment
My Own Modern Prometheus
A group of protestors on Kuruvungna Steps, many of them wearing medical masks.
Featured
Michael Drake’s Mask Ban Endangers More Than Just Protesters
A photo of several participants in the Queer Writing Space
Community
Writing Helped Me Find My Queerness — Here’s How It Can Help You Find Yours: UCLA’s Queer Creative Writing Space
A person with both blue and pale skin is carried away through a star-specked void on a stream of purple, pale green and teal.
Community
Voidpunk and a Meditation on Human Bodies
A person wearing a Pride flag as a cape is highlighted by an orange spotlight as a crowd of blue, shadowed people circle them at a distance.
Community
Cringe Compilation #42: The Psychology of Cringe Culture
Two furries help an excited third friend into a fursuit.
Community
For the Love of Furries
Student protestors hold up large signs which together read "Cancel RIMPAC".
Community
Cancel RIMPAC! Student Perspectives on Resisting the U.S. War Machine
A crowd of anti-RIMPAC protestors with banners and flags gather in front of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.
Featured
 The Human Cost of RIMPAC and Calls to Resistance
A syringe injecting into a thigh. The top of the thigh is bloody and scarred.
Creative Writing
transmutation of man
A graphic drawn in a colorful, sketchy style of the words "Poetry is not a luxury" shooting rainbow beams past three greyscale people.
Featured
“Poetry Is Not a Luxury”: Building New Queer Worlds One Word at a Time
A scattered group of pro-Palestine protestors linger in front of Powell Library on a foggy day. One waves a large Palestinian flag.
Community
The Right to be Disruptive
Caryn and Aly, Sarah's aunts, dance barefoot in a garden. They are older white women wearing summery clothing. Both are smiling widely.
Creative Writing
The Hard Choice
A photo of Chino Hills Community Center.
Community
Hometown Troubles
A crowd of UCLA students and community members gather in a circle around the base of Kuruvungna Steps. Many wear keffiyehs and some raise cardboard signs with pro-Palestine slogans. Community members' faces have been blurred for privacy.
Community
Why Palestine?: Interviews with Pro-Palestine Students at UCLA
A crowd of police officers wearing face shields and wielding truncheons stand outside Dodd Hall on the night of May 1, 2024.
Community
Happy Pride! Our Commitment to Palestine
A photograph of Daniela Maldonado Salamanca, a Brown woman with wavy blonde hair, wearing a matching two-piece black-and-white striped tank top and skirt set. She smiles as she holds a cardboard sign with a painted Palestinian flag. Behind her is Dickson Court and a Bruins sign hanging on a lamppost.
Campus
Toloposungo: All Police Are a Gonorrhea
Follow Us