the love blast from kathleen smith!

A visual artist whose work explores queer and Latinx identity through photography and installation.

Short essays and poems about noticing the small stuff, holding the big stuff, and stretching into it all for a life fully lived. Illness and healing, grief and love, motherhood, making art, belonging, growing up, growing old. Words to keep you company.

An unfiltered, all inclusive exploration of love, particularly love that is profound but fleeting, perhaps inappropriate or never realized ⚓ "I put my hand inside his cranium, oh we had such a brainiac-amour/ But no more, no more" Land, Patti Smith

Scoop on "Winona Forever" (graphic novel) plus the in-progress sequel, "Van Gogh, Van Gone." winonaforeverbooks.com

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