Amber Stewart

Amber Stewart is a queer writer, educator, and poet. She teaches at Nashville State Community College and is en route to her second master’s at Belmont University. She writes primarily about queer identity, mental health, and pop culture and is currently working on a creative nonfiction project about outlaws in film. She lives with her partner and their two dogs in Nashville, TN.

Amber Stewart
The Guide

When it’s quiet, we see ourselves repeating a mantra, a balm I think down is not actually down I’m still falling in the interstitial  The dash between victim-survivor The interstellar Ursa Major  The only stars always located above the horizon Callisto was once a nymph dedicated to Diana  before Jupiter got his hands on her […]

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The Explorer

We’ve carved ourselves a place  like heat held close to the chest I imagine revenge as cruel as  the first day of spring  and the remnants you left behind We snag each other,  acrylic nails in hosiery  clear polish  and the memories of a time before  when everything was undiscovered I want to unlearn you […]

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The Champion

She whispered to me: Tell me about the first time someone told you your body was not your own Tell me the story of biology  Tell me how the body twists when trying to find itself Tell me the story of your construction, from the ground up  Tell me about archaeology Tell me about the […]

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The Champion
Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Danca
Afterparty Sadness

Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Dança

when the day comes

Inspired by The Day, with Maya Beiser and Wendy Whelan

Ghosts: A Holiday Haunting

Inspired by The Longest Night

Names Unheard

Inspired by Mellotron Variations

Here, Not There

Inspired by Stew and Heidi: Notes of a Native Song

Kinetics: Identity & Female Lead

Inspired by Companhia Urbana de Dança

I AM THE UNIVERSE

Inspired by Hiroaki Umeda

Smashed Glass

Inspired by Stew and Heidi: Notes of a Native Song

The Explorer

Inspired by Rosie Herrera's First Fruit, New Dialect

Went Home to Meet White Supremacy

Inspired by Mellotron Variations

The Guide

In response to Split Flow and Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

my beloved monster

Inspired by Manual Cinema's Frankenstein

il est midi

In response to Na Pista & ID: ENTIDADES by Companhia Urbana de Dança

Rebooting

In response to Split Flow & Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

Fish Out of Water

In response to The Moth

Frankenstein: Narration / Interpretation / Transmission

In response to Frankenstein by Manual Cinema

Rise & Darkness Becomes Me

In response to The Longest Night

Behn's Flow

In response to Split Flow & Holistic Strata by Hiroaki Umeda

Dynamite Kid

In response to Na PistaID: ENTIDADES by Companhia Urbana de Dança