Over the next few weeks, we're going to be highlighting our incredible @co_conspiratorpress authors and their publications. ⁠ ⁠ Annika Hansteen-Izora (@annika.izora)'s "Tenderness: An Honoring of my Black Queer Joy and Rage" is a meditation, inquiry, and invitation to expand our imaginations on meanings of tenderness while exploring answers to the questions: What would it mean if tenderness could hold a simultaneous existence of joy and rage? How to call on tenderness as a practice of love, rather than a regurgitation of white supremacy? ⁠ ⁠ Annika is a writer, poet, and multi-disciplinary artist from East Palo Alto, California. They use the elasticity of language and design to explore love as an action, queered intimacy, and frameworks of care rooted in Black futurity.⁠ ⁠ Celebrate Annika’s critical publication on tenderness and get your School of Softness Bucket Hat at the Co—Co Press website through the link in our bio, and stay tuned later this Fall for a reprint of the book!