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Iris Magazine: Queercore
Iris Magazine Staff
PHRANG-LY UNDERRATED: THE HARDCORE BUTCH LESBIAN AT THE HEART OF THE QUEER PUNK MUSIC SCENE BY OWEN VINCENT......02
PLAYLIST BY MADDY MALGIERI......06
POEM BY TORIANNA ROBLETO......07
ART BY CHLOE DION......08
collage featuring rae armantrout by MIA DONALDSON......09
OUT BY GRETA FLANAGAN......10
THE FIRST STONEWALLS: MOLLY HOUSES AND QUEER IDENTITY IN GEORGIAN LONDON BY SAM ASHTON......20
POEM BY JUNE BUCCI......25
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Iris Magazine: Hair Monologues
Iris Magazine Staff
BOX DYE by ELLA PEARCY…………...Page 01
SMALL CHANGES MEAN PLENTY by Nina Fichera…………………..Page 02
PHOTO OF A REAL VIKING, CIRCA 1999 by SAMUEL ASHTON…………………...Page 03
NAZARI COOKE……………………….Page 04
TIGHT KINKS VS. SHIMMERY CURTAINS: A HAIR ANTHOLOGY by AIMEE MADURO………...Page 05
THE HAIR MONOLOGUES BY EVELYSE CRUZ……………………………….Page 08
Not-Girl by KENDALL CRUISE………….Page 09
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Iris Magazine: Fashion: full disclosure
Iris Magazine Staff
Young Again By Sparrow Potter………………………………………………………………...1
Submissions by Abigail Wendler………………………………………………………………..2
BLOOMINGDALES by Aimee Maduro…………………………………………………………3
Playlist by Nazari Cooke…………………………………………………………………………4
in the men’s section of a department store by carly burgio……………………..5-6
Submissions by Juslannie Rosso Brito…………………………………………………………7
In Buttons By Matt Keller………………………………………………………………………...8
The compromise keeping my sex change at bay Submission by Frances Sharples……...9
CANDY-CODED By Kendall Cruise……………………………………………………………10
alice longyu gao by Frances Sharples…………………………………………………………11-12
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Iris Magazine: Valenzine 2023
Iris Magazine Staff
LOVE LETTERS FROM HELL by MIA DONALDSON………………………..2
ON HOT DAYS BY THE RIVER BY E. D. PEARCY…………………………..2
HEART SHAPED FACE by TORIANNA ROBLETO…………………………..2
A STORM, AND A SPELL AGAINST SPEECH BY SAM ASHTON…………3
Untitled by EMILEE MEADORS…………………………………………………3
A VERY IRIS VALENTINE by EIC FRANCES SHARPLES…………………..4
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Iris Magazine: Second Hand
Iris Magazine Staff
POEMS
Anxious by Nevaeh Tucker
Destiny by Carly Burgio Aren’t
They Just by Frances Sharples
ESSAY
The Transference by Matt Keller
PHOTO SUBMISSIONS
Noel Guidry
Carly Burgio
Diana Morley
Harrison Martinez
Jake Bancroft
Julia Grunes
Mareasa Giudici
Matt Keller
Mia Donaldson
Owen Vincent
Ralph Velazquez
Ruby Morris
Sam Ashton
Torianna Robleto
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Iris Magazine: Worship
Iris Magazine Staff
Poetry
“Sunlight” by Lili Gorley
Author bio: Lili Gourley is a creative writing major at Geneseo with a concentration in poetry. She often finds her muse in music and nature. She hopes to work in the publishing industry someday.
Trigger warning: non-violent death
“Craft” by Lidabel Avila
Author bio: Lidabel Avila (she/her)
Trigger warning: N/A
“The Finale” by Liz Louie
Author bio: Liz Louie is an author of all things you don’t want to find in your closet. She is currently working towards a BA from SUNY Geneseo in Creative Writing. She has been published in Catharsis Magazine, and enjoys spending time watching scary movies and riding horses.
Trigger warning: abuse, minor gore, violence
“Imago Therapy” by Isaac Schiller
Author bio: Isaac Schiller (he/him)
Description: Imago Therapy: Untangle those attachment wounds you developed in childhood! Look in the mirror. Do you see your parents hiding inside your face? Take a pen and draw over it until your face no longer belongs to anyone.
Trigger warning: N/A
“Every Eve” by Tess Woitaszek
Author bio: Tess Woitaszek is a senior at Geneseo and part of a creative writing program, in which she focuses on poetry and creative short fiction.
Trigger warning: N/A
“Holy” by Tess Woitaszek
Author bio: Tess Woitaszek is a senior at Geneseo and part of a creative writing program, in which she focuses on poetry and creative short fiction.
Trigger warning: N/A
Visual art
“Worship” by Noel Guidry
Author bio: Noel Guidry (he/him)
Description: This piece depicts three figures praying to an ethereal figure of light.
Trigger warning: N/A
“The Adoration of the Magi” by Noel Guidry
Author bio: Noel Guidry (he/him)
Description: Depicts a nativity scene where the three kings, depicted in black, are seeing the baby jesus for the first time.
Trigger warning: N/A
“The Journey of the Magi” by Noel Guidry
Author bio: Noel Guidry (he/him)
Description: Depicts the three wise men riding across the Arabian Desert on camelback.
Trigger warning: N/A
“The Witches Tree” by Kaitlin Anzalone
Author bio: Kaitlin Anzalone (she/her)
Description: It was once believed that a spirit could be trapped in a wine bottle. People began hanging glass bottles on dead tree branches in hopes that a spirit would become trapped and the morning sun would neutralize the spirit.
Trigger warning: N/A
Untitled by Kaitlin Anzalone
Author bio: Kaitlin Anzalone (she/her)
Description: Children tend to worship the ground older individuals walk on. We should slow down and do the reverse.
Trigger warning: N/A
Untitled by Jillian Orr
Author bio: Jillian is a junior sociomedical sciences major who loves drawing, watching the leaves change color, and cookie dough ice cream.
Trigger warning: N/A
Creative writing
“Gender Nonconformity in Northanger Abbey and a Partisan Narrator’s Sympathy” by Matt Keller
Author bio: Matt Keller is a senior English major concentrating in Creative Writing. He has previously been published in MiNT magazine and is President of the Creative Writing Club at Geneseo. The piece is a type of creative nonfiction lyric essay known as a “hermit crab essay.” It takes the disguise, or shell, of a literary analysis, hiding the narrator’s perspective within. As the narrator discovers more about himself as he discovers more about the characters of Northanger Abbey.
Trigger warning: N/A
“Ostinato; Prometheus’ Refrain” by Jackson Faulkner
Author bio: Jackson Faulkner (he/they)
Description: A conversation on love, worship, myth, and revival.
Trigger warning: death
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Iris Magazine: Nostalgia
Iris Magazine Staff
Visual Arts
Untitled by Frances Sharples……………………………...4
Untitled by Jillian Orr………………………………………..6
Kneestolgia by Torianna Robleto…………………………..7
Untitled by Abigail Wendler…………………………………14
SC3N3 R3VIV4L by Alejandro Tejera……………………...15
Furbo by Bryce Currier……………………………………….16
Poetry
Yellow Roses by Jacob Goldberg…………………………..1
Lists by Isaac Schiller………………………………………..3
recollection of a heart once younger by Sam Ashton…….5
burn-in by Tess Zuchowski…………………………………..8
Prose
Crushed by Charlie Kenny…………………………………..9
Golden Afternoon by Mar Leeman…………………………11
Champ by Loren Manchester……………………………….13 r
etrospection on 8th and 9th street by Alejandro Tejera….17
Model UN by Isaac Schiller………………………………….18
Time Doesn’t Exist in the Woods by Charlie Kenny………19
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Iris Magazine: Senior Edition 2022
Iris Magazine Staff
kat johnson
73 Questions with Kat Johnson
jenna murray notes on leaving by Jenna Murray
al tejera
An Interview with Al Bloodsuckers By Al Tejera
charlie kenny
Kiss of the Heart by Charlie Kenny
A Wretched Thing by Charlie Kenny
An Interview with Charlie Kenny by Emilee Meadors
mia serritella
taking turns with the EIC by Mia Serritella
if you wore these shorts as a kid you’re gay now by Mia Serritella
longing by Mia Serritella
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Iris Magazine: Utopia
Iris Magazine Staff
Wasteland By Jess Marinaro
“To the one” By Torianna Robleto
In Darkling Hours At The World’s Fair By Sam Ashton
Kingdom Torianna Robleto
Burn your past Will Allen
Sucker punch Emilee Meadors
HOW MUCH DOES A MAN LIVE, AFTER ALL? Camille Cozine
Paixao Al Tejera
Purification Al Tejera
utopia a playlist by kat johnson Kat Johnson
backyard bliss Taylor Presutti
LEVITATE a playlist by Kamal Lythcott
Utopia a playlist by Mikayla Anderson
the body By Julia Grunes
New Mitski release–My utopia Sarah Sharples
utopia- songs to produce poetry by Mia Donaldson
2099 By Al Tejera
Three Months Since the End of Her World By Charlie Kenny
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Iris Magazine: Valenzine 2022
Iris Magazine Staff
IN THE DISCO SUMMER OF THIS AGE OLD REBELLION By Jenna Murray
Amor y Amistad By Torianna Robleto goodnight to the beloved weary by Sam Ashton
For lovers, romantics, etc. curated by Sarah Sharples
A Valentine’s Day Robbery By Charlie Kenny
Picking up the Pieces by Emilee Meadors
POV: no one buys u an iris candy-gram Curated by Kat Johnson and Jenna Murray
kelly’s corner table By Kat Johnson
Love and Relationship Tarot Card Reading by Ella
words and images from those who love me Curated by Mia Serritella
central park: mourning by Mia Donaldson
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Iris Magazine: Omens
Iris Magazine Staff
ARTICLES
PAGE 1-3…….HUMANIZING GENESEO, MADISON WRIGHT AND NEVAEH TUCKER
PAGE 4-5…….STRIPPING MENSTRUATION OF GENDERED LANGUAGE, SARAH SHARPLES
CREATIVE ENTRIES
PAGE 1……….FIREWATCH, SAGE KEARNEY
PAGE 2……….MESS, LIDABEL GUZMAN AVILA
PAGE 3……….SELF SACRIFICIAL, LIDABEL GUZMAN AVILA
PAGE 4-6…….LIFE AFTER, AL TEJERA
PAGE 7-8…….SERAPH, SOL RIVERA
PAGE 9……….PLAYLIST, KAMAL LYTHCOTT
VISUAL ART
PAGE 1……….CEOS ON SUNDAYS, AL TEJERA
PAGE 2……….CHURCH, MIKAYLA ANDERSON
PAGE 3……….ENTRANCED, NOEL GUIDRY
PAGE 4……….THE WITCHING HOUR, NOEL GUIDRY
PAGE 5……….IF YOU WORE THESE SHORTS AS A KID YOU’RE GAY NOW, ANONYMOUS
PAGE 6……….LION, SIERRE ETKIN
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Iris Magazine: New Beginnings
Iris Magazine Staff
VISUAL ART
Collection, Torianna Robleto
“Alpha”, Al Tejera
Collection, Jenna Murray
“The Swing”, Noel Guidry
CREATIVE ENTRIES
“Dragonfly Wings”, Jess Marinaro
“Feed”, Al Tejera
“Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Words I Forgot to Define Before You Left”, Jenna Murray
“No Grace in Beauty”, Julissa Valdez
“Ozmanthus and the Wolf”, Charlie Kenny
Collection, Isaac Schiller
“this city”, Hannah Fuller
“to be the unlucky mediator between celestial bodies”, Sarah Sharples “
Transcendent”, Grayson Dailey
Untitled, Madelyn Rice and Kayla Eyler
“when I wonder if I will be misgendered at my funeral”, Kat Johnson
ARTICLES
“Accepting Differences: Music Taste and Gender”, Grayson Dailey
Iris Magazine is a queer, student-run publication founded in 2021 at SUNY Geneseo that aims to create a space for LGBTQ+ students to embrace and showcase their queerness in any form they see fit. The magazine is published digitally multiple times a year and features work that students feel embody their queer experience, from paintings and playlists to stories and sculptures. Iris Magazine was originally published on the web at https://www.iris-magazine.com/.
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