From The QILT2BAG+ Issue 6: Liberation
Featuring Poetry by Claudia Alick
Calling Up Justice is thrilled to celebrate The QILT2BAG+ Issue 6: Liberation, a powerful new community-made ‘zine uplifting queer and trans writers and artists. Produced by polymath creator, cultural worker, and all-around renaissance spirit Kaitlyn S. C. Hatch (KSC Hatch), this issue continues the zine’s tradition of building collaborative creative ecosystems—exactly the kind of grassroots artistic practice Calling Up Justice loves to champion.
We are especially honored that Claudia Alick was invited to contribute poetry to this edition. CUJ has long admired the QILT2BAG+ model of collective publishing, and we’re proud to offer these chapbooks to our Quarantine Residency guest artists, strengthening the cross-pollination of emergent voices, disabled makers, queer creatives, and justice producers.
About the Creator: KSC Hatch
Imagine a classic Renaissance polymath—but add a paisley waistcoat, a tortoiseshell cat, and a creative engine driven by curiosity, compassion, and queer brilliance. That’s Kait (any pronouns), the founder of QILT2BAG+* and an artist whose skillset expands as naturally as roots through soil.
Kait’s practice braids together:
- multi-genre writing, including books, manuscripts, and the long-running Lojong Practice Journal examining Buddhist philosophy through a social justice lens
- mixed-media art, including contemporary Thangka work and the Sacred Love/Sacred Lives series celebrating disabled, trans, and queer embodiments
- community leadership, from founding Fake Mustache, Canada’s longest-running drag troupe, to building the Miscellaneous Youth Network for QILT2BAG+ young people
- decades of not-for-profit work guided by compassion, youth empowerment, and cultural care
Their creative life began in a house with no television, shaped by parents straight out of a storybook—Nanny Ogg and Calvin’s dad from Calvin & Hobbes. Today, Kait carries forward that same imagination and integrity through writing, art, Buddhist chaplaincy practice, and joyful, goblincore gardening.
About Issue 6: Liberation
From the QILT2BAG+ is a themed collaborative community ‘zine dedicated to uplifting queer and trans artists and writers.
Issue 6: Liberation features:
- Ris Wong — Cover Art
- Claudia Alick — Poetry
- Cece Chow — Personal Essay
- London Blackwood — Visual Art
- Odeh Kassis — Personal Essay
Each issue is produced by Kait and co-distributed by all collaborators, ensuring artists are directly supported for their labor and that future issues can thrive. This is justice-oriented publishing in action—transparent, interdependent, community-rooted.
Pricing Model
The QILT2BAG+ project uses a “pay what nourishes the ecosystem” pricing structure:
- CA$10 — Pay-it-forward price
- CA$8 — Sustaining price (use code $8ZINEPLEASE)
- CA$5 — Discount price (use code $5ZINEPLEASE)
Every purchase helps compensate contributors and sustain future editions.
Why Calling Up Justice Supports This Work
CUJ is committed to cultivating artistic ecosystems where marginalized artists thrive. QILT2BAG+ reflects values we hold deeply:
- collective creativity
- queer and trans liberation
- cross-genre experimentation
- low-barrier publishing
- mutual support networks
- justice-rooted storytelling
This zine is exactly the kind of fertile creative environment we love to amplify—one that mirrors our own Quarantine Residencies, Digital Encampments, and justice-producing arts practice across mediums.