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July 16, 2022
Collage of a small tent, there is the reflection of pine trees and clothes on a line

James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I…

Collage of a house, three geese flying from the left, and a couple dancing in front
Collage of a small tent, there is the reflection of pine trees and clothes on a line
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Threadbare, We Stars
Collage of a house, three geese flying from the left, and a couple dancing in front
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Collage of a small tent, there is the reflection of pine trees and clothes on a line
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Draw Deep From This Dark

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My collages are a practice of healing and self-care for times when I am especially manic, depressed or dissociating. Modelled on and inspired by the cut-up practice of the late Genesis P-Orridge, I attempt to explore, visually and textually, themes of identity/dis-identification, trauma and healing.

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James Diaz (They/Them) is the author of This Someone I Call Stranger, (Indolent Books, 2018) and All Things Beautiful Are Bent (Alien Buddha, 2021) as well as the founding editor of Anti-Heroin Chic. Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Thrush, Corporeal, The Madrigal, Cleaver Magazine, Rust + Moth, Yes Poetry and Cobra Milk Mag. They live in upstate New York.

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