Poems

Shenali is standing in front a of painted wall that looks like a town. The photo shows her shoulders up and she looks kindly at the camera.

"What I do know is that writing brings me peace and sharing my writing with others gives me joy. I hope it gives people who read it something too. Writing is my way of processing the world, but it also feels essential to my way of being in the world, like there is no other way for me to be here and fully alive. So, I guess I’ll keep writing till I get chucked off the boat someday."

A black and white photograph of Patrick standing outside looking at the camera

'Poems of Sex and Culture' – Patrick Gunasekera

Patrick Gunasekera is a queercrip Sinhala interdisciplinary artist based in the Whadjuk region of the Noongar nation, disrupting white and settler epistemologies of art through writing, visual media, performance-making and advocacy.