Spotlighting the prose and art of queer writers and artists in our second installment of /Slant/Sex/, and with a very special folio dedicated to Bernadette Mayer and the influence she has had on all of us who create things. In light of the VIDA’s research on gender disparity in literary publications, this issue’s fiction folio is a collection of Contemporary Women’s Fiction. With an intermedia folio of Nonfiction Portraits, including an excerpt from Oscar Hijuelos’ latest novel and a performance piece by Quintan Ana Wikswo, and a folio of Poetry exploring sequences and long poems.