Theory Out the Trunk: Volume I

Theory Out the Trunk, Volume I is a collaborative zine and workshop text by Omaria Sanchez Pratt and Amanda Bennett, Ph.D.

Part poetry collection, part craft essay, part Black queer Southern theory, this first volume offers an alternative model for creative writing, critical thinking, and community gathering. Written in bed, in cars, in gardens, beside graves, and inside the soft architecture of Black queer love, this zine asks what becomes possible when we stop waiting for institutions to validate our work and begin making our own rooms.

Inside you’ll find poems, essays, and a writing prompt rooted in pleasure, grief, memory, softness, self-exploration, and the belief that being held is a precursor to creation.

This is theory made portable. Theory from the body. Theory from the porch, the trunk, the kitchen table, the backyard, the altar, the garden, and the page.

For Black writers, queer and trans Southern folks, teachers, artists, organizers, and anyone trying to write their way toward a life that feels more honest, more embodied, and more free.

Digital PDF.