Disco Ball Dyke

By: Mariah Ayscue

Disco Ball Dyke begins with the Jesus of Church street creating a living sanctuary of their body for our community after being baptized by trans gods. Then our community of all genders and sexualities becomes a living sanctuary for all. You’ll meet pansexual pancakes, demisexual dreams, discoball dykes, lesbian flowers, bi butterflies, sapphic singers, gay death droppers, asexual astronomers, polyamorous pixie dust and other loved ones.

The living sanctuary becomes a barricade at protests, marches and demonstrations. It becomes a collective vessel for joy surrounded by sweetness even through grief. It also is fought for by their mother and the creator of their own name.

This poetry collection of Black Trans sweetness celebrates how the QTBIPOC community embraces each other as miracles rather than spectacles. There is crucifixion in the eyes of those who perceive us as spectacles and get violent when our community isn’t respectable. But, there is resurrection in the eyes of our community that knows we are miracles. I promise you will find freedom like the disco ball dykes fly on roller skates. And please know you are loved within your wholeness, realness and divinity.