julian is a writer, performer, zine maker, and photographer, creating on stolen jagera and turrabul land in meanjin, australia. through words and images, he scavenges to explore themes of embodiment, memory, and the gaps between how we feel and how we are. he cannot be constrained by medium or genre.
fiction & prose
his upcoming fictional pamphlet ‘help! my miranda is a man (duh!)’, exploring how to navigate if the sex and the city character formerly known as miranda hobbes came out as a transfag (gay trans guy), is soon to be published in the anthology ‘sex change and the city’ (girl dad press).
his short fiction work ‘fireworks’ was included in queer sci-fi anthology ‘celestial bodies‘ (tiny owl workshop), shortlisted for ‘best anthology’ award in the 2024 aurealis awards, australia’s premier speculative fiction awards.
performance
his powerpoint ‘fall out boy is for lovers!’, presented at queer powerpoint (princess theatre, 26.06.24)argues that fall out boy’s lyrics constitute their own rich queer code, using academic queer theory to argue that this subtextual representation will always fulfill a unique desire for queer people that explicit experiences of queer love (personal or vicarious) cannot.
you can view the powerpoint (with speaker notes) by clicking the image below:
julian’s reading of his poem ‘pretty like a girl’ was featured in the launch video of voiceworks issue #124 ‘saddle’.
poetry
his poetry publications include:
- ‘domestic goddess‘ (blue bottle journal, feb 2022)
- tralentines zine (2022) – ‘i need to read more gay poets’
- ‘i know the words to this one‘ (baby teeth, 2022)
- ‘#23 – the ghoul next door’ (voiceworks, issue #125 ‘spectre’, 2022)
- ‘pretty like a girl’ (voiceworks, issue #124 ‘saddle’, 2021)
zines/collage
his collage work has been featured in:
- tralentines zine (2022) – ‘i need to read more gay poets’
- qut literary salon 2022 annual collection (pictured below)
photography
coming soon.
Julian L. Palacios 