“And none of us had ever talked about writing. “I had known most of the people working on Missy for a while,” Parker said. Parker said the project immediately began to enrich the relationships of everyone involved. They hosted a writing workshop, which focused on poems from LGBTQ+ authors around specific themes. The group came up with the name Missy, a queer rhetorical play on Ole Miss, and began taking submissions.
With the addition of associate editors Grace Marion and Michael Martella, the idea began to take shape. Gillespie is writing and researching a book about community writing and its influence on LGBTQ+ communities in Florida. I think the work I’ve done with them has influenced my work.” “I didn’t think that 10 years ago would actually be something that would help me in this moment to help students. “I was doing that because I needed an outlet and I needed community in 2010,” Gillespie said.
He shared the idea with others in the LGBTQ+ community and was eventually introduced to Tyler Gillespie, an instructor in writing and rhetoric who spent years working and writing for zines and small community publications in Chicago. Parker said he wasn’t focused on some big idea or larger aspiration, but simply wanted a place for LGBTQ+ students on campus to be published. “I’m not going to say I’m a great writer, but I like to do it.” “As an English major, I always have writing on my mind,” said Parker, who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in secondary English education in 2020. At the time, Parker was president of the UM Pride Network and was interested in project the group could undertake. The idea for Missy took root in Parker’s during a breakout session focused on using zines and community writing for writing instruction and community building. Greg Parker first thought about creating a magazine during the Transitioning to College Writing symposium in 2019. 21), featuring live music, an open mic and featured readings from magazine contributors. To celebrate the release of the first issue, the editorial staff is hosting a launch party in Lamar Hall’s LGBTQ+ Lounge at 6 p.m.
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– Like clues in a scavenger hunt, stickers with nothing more than the word “Missy” and a QR code are making their way around campus to promote and distribute the first issue of the University of Mississippi‘s latest student-led publication.Īnyone who scans the QR code on their phone, or follows this link, will be taken to an online flipbook collecting poems, photographs and illustrations from LGBTQ+ and allied members of the UM community.
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