maybe sex is a line is a digital vispoem collage created using an erasure of the original text, vintage distressed paper, watercolor textures, and ASCII art of James Joyce constructed using only the characters in this passage: “My gendered identity, he said, is built around a negation: not-hysteria. Because I believe in my own performance, I am not conscious of my own fear of hysteria. I react to my fear of hysteria with a compulsive need to emphasize my own rationality and masculinity.”

​T.A. Noonan is a queer writer, artist, educator, and priestess whose books include The Bone Folders, Petticoat Government, four sparks fall: a novella, and a forthcoming collection of radical translations, The Ep[is]odes: a reformulation of Horace. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Whiskey Island, LIT, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Ninth Letter, Phoebe, and Open Letters Monthly, among others. She lives in Florida and serves as an Associate Editor of Sundress Publications, the Development Director of the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Founding Editor of Flaming Giblet Press.