Want to hear some excerpts from Her Plumage? While I was unable to participate, my fellow Quail Bell Crew members, Mari Pack, Ghia Vitale, and Christine Sloan Stoddard read some of their fabulous work featured in this anthology. You can check out more here!
Author Archives: Ren Martinez
Her Plumage
Here’s the latest anthology from Quail Bell Magazine, featuring myself and other fantastic members of the Quail Bell Crew. “A collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by female members of The Quail Bell Crew and select contributors. This is the third anthology by Quail Bell Magazine, a literary magazine for real and unreal stories fromContinue reading “Her Plumage”
In Remembrance of the 2019 New Zealand Mosque Attacks
My newest piece published at Quail Bell Magazine titled “The DSM-V Diagnostic Criteria for PTSD.” “I’m trying to write and I keep remembering the brown of my husband’s hands” Read it here.
Book Review: Love_Is_Love
I am not dying today not even if you murder me, watch me grow wings. Head over to Quail Bell Magazine to check out my book review of Love_is_Love: An Anthology for LGBTQIA+ Teens, edited by Emma Eden Ramos, and with original art (featured above) by Natascha Woolf. Read it here!
Book Review: Cenote City by Monique Quintana
“There are places that spill magic into the world, and the people who live there, breathing it in, inevitably become magic, too.” My book review on Cenote City by Monique Quintana posted at Quail Bell Magazine. Check it out here!
Book Review: You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar
I received this book as a gift for my birthday from my best friend, Kate. She and I are fierce feminists who often discuss our favorite Netflix show between diatribes against the patriarchy. She is also fat, and proudly so. I often reference her as such, like “Yeah, my best friend is fat, and sheContinue reading “Book Review: You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar”
Catching Up & Falling Back
This year has not been a year for the creative. Between the the dumpster fire that is the political landscape, finishing renovations on a house, and preparing for my wedding, it’s been chaos and craziness all year. I wish I could say I was at least able to write in the downtime, but that isContinue reading “Catching Up & Falling Back”
The End of Winter
Oh my Goddess, have I been away. That hiatus was entirely unplanned and way longer than it should have been. To make a long year short, my beau and I moved into my parents’ house a year ago while we made renovations on his mother’s home, which is now ours. It required a full guttingContinue reading “The End of Winter”
‘Richmond Resists’ highlights decades of RVA’s activist past through zines at Gallery 5 this month
Residing the second floor of Gallery5 is Richmond’s Independent Zine Library, a space dedicated to the radical, the nonsensical, the weird, and those who stand up and say “NO!.” Read more here
From national protests to grassroots activism, EV’s Day of Action connects local LGBTW advocates and citizens with legislators on 2/7
My newest article for GayRVA Magazine. “Equality Virginia is holding their annual Day of Action, an event for LGBTQ and ally constituents to meet with legislators and discuss bills that affect the LGBT community. The day involves meeting with legislators, workshops led by fellow activists and top attorneys, and a legislative reception, in which theContinue reading “From national protests to grassroots activism, EV’s Day of Action connects local LGBTW advocates and citizens with legislators on 2/7”
