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Carnation, Vol. 2 (Pleasure) Ed. by Christina Hajjar, Luther Konadu, Mariana Muñoz Gomez Carnation, 2021

arnation is a self-published zine that centres BIPOC artists and writers who, in the words of editors Christina Hajjar, Luther Konadu, and Mariana Muñoz Gomez, contemplate “displacement and diaspora.” In the second volume of , the editors invited contributors to think about/around pleasure. What resulted was a compilation of beautifully complex, sensorial explorations of pleasure from the perspectives of racialized people, spanning joyous moments crystallized in short stories, tender portraits, and erotic scenes.

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