EDITORS' NOTE

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is a collaboration between the Graphic Design Department, Creative Writing program, and the Multimodal Lab at Santa Barbara City College.

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is our first print issue, which you are holding.

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is online at openfruit.fun which you are reading :j

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is our queer issue.

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is raw, on fire, and unapologetic.

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is from poets and fiction writers from all over the United States and a few from other países. 

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is trans, non-binary, gay, lesbian, and more. 

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is a happy and chaotic mess in the form of ink and paper. 

Open Fruit Issue 5: DIVAS is here. 

The design of this issue was inspired by the archive for Jerry Dreva at the Archive of American Art, Smithsonian Institute; a still from "Paris is Burning", a cover from of a Beck album, art from ASCO, a portrait of Emile Griffith, the drawing "Geography of Self" by Gloria Anzaldúa, and a gallery shot from "Nonsence" by Cecilia Alvarez Munoz.

This issue, our first ever print + online, was the work of many people. Many thanks to James Van Arsdale, Alessandra Bortolazzo, Emma Trelles, Michelle Detorie, Andrea De Luna, Patsy Hicks, and all our contributors. 

Joshua Escobar

Editor of Open Fruit