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Yasmeen Jaaber | Editor
Sonae Keoni | Writer, Illustrator, Interviewer
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!
Sonae Keoni (they/them) is a 20 year old story-telling enthusiast, based in a world full of hot-pink cats, grieving giantess-mermaids, and underwater motorcyclist-criminals. Primarily, they sculpt their scenes digitally, using an iPad and procreate, though they’re also a multimedia painter and soft-scupltor. A lot of their work derives itself from their queer experiences growing up, and their illustration “Game Day” was nationally recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards in 2022.
Sabine Wilson-Patrick is a nobody writer published in The Interlochen Review and Mixed Magazine. In spite of writing for most of their life they still have not mastered the simple art of writing bios. Their hobbies include fiber arts and bungling recipes from the New York Times. Also, they are from Barbados.
Taha makes a decent student but a questionable son. Always keen for a good beat, a well constructed garment, and whatever is playing on half-off tuesday at the nearby theater. Taha has a heart looking for clarity amidst the murkiness: a place to make his own in the in-betweenness. Interested in the exploration of what happens at the interface of colonial violence. In many ways he’s driving the car that slows down to watch an accident on the highway. His works explore queerness, race and gender, and his theoretical background in psychology often seeps into his poetic awareness. He speaks for nobody but himself.