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  • Patruni Sastry

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    Patruni Chidananda Sastry is a classical dancer, intrapreneur and customer service expert. Patruni started dancing at the age of seven and their unique style called ‘Expressionism’ is a new way to tell stories of awareness to the society. Patruni has also been performing the Indian Tranimal style of drag, which draws inspiration from folk artforms…

  • Kayleigh Jayshree

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    Kayleigh Jayshree (she/they) is a short fiction writer based in England. She has been published by Lunate Fiction and The Hearth Magazine, and has work forthcoming in Mixed Magazine, Polyphony, Ink, Sweat and Tears and The Bitchin’ Kitsch. She often writes about her mixed heritage and bipolar disorder.

  • Patruni Sastry in Conversation with Tawseef Khan

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  • Madeleine Han & Irene Hsu

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    The writers: Madeleine Han (she/her) is a writer and researcher. She co-facilitates a high school writing workshop with Irene Hsu in the Bay Area, where they both grew up. Irene Hsu (they) is a writer and researcher with one foot in South Bay and the other in Brooklyn. The performers: ak hayakawa geshlider picks a…

  • Editorial

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    Monique Todd is a writer and researcher. She works on Pleasure Principles, a multi-medium platform tracking formations of desire and connection through geographies. Currently, she is thinking with the funky/erotic/topological/relational through lines in work by L.H Stallings, Rinaldo Walcott, Asiya Wadud, JJJJJerome Ellis, Keller Easterling and Jennifer C. Nash.

  • Shiane D. Jacocks

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    Shiane D. Jacocks (they/them) is a writer of most forms: poetry, prose, and nonfiction. They have received their MFA, with a minor in Gender & Sexuality. They are interested in work centered around queerness, trauma, healing, and activist work. They were the prose editor for Puerto del Sol and have been published in The Pacific Review, The FEM, IE Voice, Black Voice…

  • Editorial

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    Welcome to Fruit! We’re very excited to share issue 3 with you. Putting it together has been a slow but enjoyable process; choosing the cover art was the final step. We decided on a local artist, Ryan French whose vivid depiction of a queer utopia complements the writing that appears in this issue. While recognising…

  • Christopher Lloyd

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    Christopher Lloyd (he/him) is currently a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has published widely on contemporary US culture. Christopher’s poetry has appeared in Impossible Archetype, —algia, Visual Verse and elsewhere. He’s at work on a first novel and a queer bestiary. He tweets @clloyd9.

  • Felix del Campo

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    Felix del Campo is a Spanish writer currently living in London. His writing explores the confusing space of translation, living memory and being lost between languages.

  • Monique Todd

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    Monique Todd is a writer interested in togetherness/separateness, holes and gaps. She founded Pleasure Principles, an independent publishing platform tracking desire formations. Pleasure Principles has exhibited at Strange Perfume (South London Gallery, 2019), LESBIANNALE (ICA, 2019) and Mal Journal x Hard to Read: Class Acts (Mimosa House Gallery, 2019). Pleasure Principle’s debut release was Black Sex…