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Yasmeen Jaaber | Editor
Justen Gutierrez | Graphic Design, Visual Artist
Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Writer
Taha | Writer
Jonah Hodari | Writer, Photographer
Rover magazine is a digital and print magazine created and sustained by a team of queer creatives of color. Each issue includes a collection of personal essays, media reviews, polls, visual art and a main feature interview with a creator. The creators interviewed have primarily been artists of color who identify as members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
We seek to use our issues to create a sense of belonging and community for our readership. The title ROVER alludes to a constant movement and the ability to overcome rough terrain. These are both central feelings felt in being queer and navigating a newly discovered adulthood.
With a team of writers, visual artists and photographers, ROVER has thus far seen five issues consisting of conversations around love, diaspora, the intricacies of intersectionality and so much more. Each issue has been a delight to make, with the content visibly becoming taut, polished and purposeful as the magazine progresses.
Yasmeen (they/them) is a Black queer academic. They enjoy engaging with works that scramble what is "known" about reality. Yasmeen is drawn to writing prose about life's more uncomfortable truths, and how it feels to be a little bit pathetic. They also create videos that relay moments of overlap and confusion. In 2023, they were an Iftekhar Entrepreneurial Fellow. They currently spend their time reading, healing and gossiping!
Justen is a Mexican-American multimedia visual artist who works across photography, costume construction, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. As an artist he takes a maximalist approach, working mainly within the self portrait. Fluent in English, Spanish, and visual language, his works explore the dualities of religion, and work towards reclaiming and queerifying his cultural heritage and iconography. For him, identity and the body are rendered as malleable landscapes.
Sabine Wilson-Patrick is originally from Barbados and now studies in Cardiff. Their work can be found in Midnight & Indigo, Aster Lit and Nawr Magazine (and here, duh). They is also the Editor in Chief of The Tonic Review and a Nonfiction Editor for Mulberry Literary. Their hobbies include fiber arts and bungling recipes from the New York Times.
Taha Ahmar Qadeer is grafting a voice for himself in the noise, and searching for a place to call his own in the in-betweenness. Interested in postcolonial studies through the lens of liberation psychology and poetry, he’s been part of the R0VER Magazine team since the launch of the first issue. He received his BA in Psychology and Literature from Bennington College and is currently pursuing an MFA in Poetry. He speaks for nobody but himself.