Bent Lit The Tenth Magazine
Bent Lit The Tenth Magazine
Interview by Khary Septh
Bent Lit is where Bent Zine spotlights the world of literature, zine-making, books, and text-based art with a guest column.
The Tenth Magazine GUEST COLUMN
The Tenth is a media organization that documents the history, ideas, aesthetics, and politics of the Black LGBTQ+ community. Through our digital platforms, events, and biannual publication, we engage some of the world’s most talented artists and intellectuals in journalistic endeavors and creative encounters that reflect the contemporary Black queer experience.
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Bent Questions: The Tenth Magazine Editor-in-Chief Khary Septh
So tell me how BENT you are…
Virus or Bacteria? Not into being viral more into sticking on hidden surfaces.
Preferred Pronoun? “Sis”
What Periodic Table Element are you? Concrete.
Favorite Object? A “straight boy” gifted me an actual toy top because I love Cole Porter tunes.
What shape are you? Out of… home gym closed due to COVID.
Give us a texture. Box Perm.
Anarchist, Socialist, Capitalist, Libertarian, etc. Apathetic Butch Queen.
MARCUS ANTHONY BROCK PORTRAIT by ERIK CARTER Favorite person of Color that you disagree with? The BIPOC bitch who thinks she’s a person of color and that somehow this false conception means she’s a part of me.
What sound are you? A consonant.
Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, or a Broken Copper Pot? A Broken Copper Pot ALL DAY.
What’s the last thing you broke? My glasses, just like Brontez did.
Last person you kissed? My friend’s service dog who I seriously get jealous of when I see him actually helping other people. Monogamy is dead.
Best thing about men’s right activists? Melodramatic dick.
Do you meditate? All the time. I focus on 19th century landscape paintings.
Are you a Neutron Star, White Hole, or Solar Flare? The Black Hole does not even have a safe space?
Queer Cowboi by JONATHAN LYNDON CHASE Which fetish are you? Klismaphilia, EDERACINISM, Fornifilia, OCULOLINCTUS: Klismaphilia - it’s a cleanse.
Your opinion on Lesbian Separatist. As a man, I’d need something more adversarial, but to each their own.
Favorite Mythological Character? Osiris, Eygptian God of the Dead and he’s nobody’s myth.
What type of Cancer are you? I told you I was a Sag dude...
Matriarchal Punishment or Patriarchal Redemption? The patriarchy cannot escape its genetic origins nor its mommy-issues and thus must be punished to near-death.
Who do you actually hate? Myself.
Best regrettable purchase this month? Pick a streaming service, any fucking streaming service.
Finish this sentence. I know Kim Kardashian…still knows she is the GOAT of organizing closets
Your favorite body of water.The Carribean Sea.
What’s the most middle class thing you’ve done this week? Paid 4 loan notes and last month’s rent.
I’m only politically correct when…I’m in the presence of anyone under the age of 40.
What’s your favorite scar on your body? Where my vagina closed up and made a nut sack. The “choad” I believe.
Last time you cried tears of joy. When an elder died and I knew they had lived a full life.
Your most noble trait. Conviction.
I know the taste of...Farm-to-table Cock. Hudson River Valley gurls here.
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