Intake Essay
Kaiya Gordon (tw: @ayobaio) is a poet and writer from the San Francisco Peninsula. Currently, they are working on a multimodal thesis project considering collective grief, mediated art, and archival representations of trans people; teaching at Ohio State University; and learning how to develop networks of care and safety divested from state violence. Kaiya's poems have been published by poets.org, Cosmonauts Avenue, Split Lip Magazine, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and elsewhere. Their favorite karaoke song is "Basket Case" by Green Day.