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Queer Nightlife Doesn’t Need Permanent Spaces To Thrive
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Ghaziani examines how the closing of gay bars over the last 20+ years has helped bring about a new kind of queer nightlife, one that is less focused on being a permanent fixture in one location and more focused on mobility, inclusion, and ephemerality.
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“He/She/They” Is a Helpful Guide and Call to Action for Allies Everywhere
I’d recommend suggesting it to as many well-meaning cis people as you possibly can.
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“Survival Takes a Wild Imagination” Shows How the Labor of Liberation Makes Us Better
Through her newest collection of poetry, Fariha Róisín explores her experiences as a queer, Muslim, Bangladeshi woman trying to heal from a childhood of abuse and the pain of generational trauma.
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‘A Good Happy Girl’ Oozes With Lesbian Kink and Familial Pain
This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until both small joys and small discomforts are compounded into the same nauseating grotesquerie.
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New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife
There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious thoughts about queerness and what it means to be a queer person.
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Julie Delporte Wanted To Be a Lesbian Even Before She Was Sexually Attracted to Women
At 35, Delporte’s acceptance of her sexuality serves as a catalyst that helps her understand her relationships, her interests, her experiences with boys and young men as a young woman, and, especially, her body.
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Short Fiction Collection “Girlfriends” Presents Expansive, Nonlinear View of Transition and Dysphoria
The trans women in Girlfriends often find themselves stuck in the spiderweb of someone else’s drama or self-implosion.
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In Lesbian YA Debut, Teen Girls Find Love in the Midst of an Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth
The biggest theme in Jen St. Jude’s If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is mental health.
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Judith Butler Elucidates Dangers of Anti-“Gender Ideology” Movement, Doesn’t Sufficiently Answer What To Do About It
Why does Butler spend so much time trying to refute these illogical suppositions in the first place?
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Maggie Nelson’s New Book Urges Us To Revel In the Art We Love
‘Like Love’ provides a creative and intellectual road map guiding us through many of Nelson’s influences, curiosities, and obsessions.
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We Should Engage With LGBTQ History All Damn Year
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture perfectly exemplifies the reasons why it’s so imperative to look back at history with the willingness to be impacted by whatever we learn.
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This YA Book Is a Great Queer Second-Chance Romance
What would you do if the one person you loved the most was the one person you cannot remember?
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“Fair Play” Reflects on the Origins of the Trans Sports Debate and How We Can End It
Throughout the text, Barnes reminds us over and over again: “What began as a good-faith discussion about policy and physiological differences between sexes has given way to a level of intolerance and discrimination that is simply unconscionable.”
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Jenn Shapland’s “Thin Skin” Will Make You Believe Another Life Is Possible
Shapland never purports to have all of the answers here, and why would she?
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The Polyamory Workbook Offers Practical Tips for Navigating Any Relationship
I wish I could send pieces of this book to all of the people I have ever loved.
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In Challenging, Complex Essays, “Unsafe Words” Queers the #MeToo Movement
Multiple of these essays ask how we can make queer spaces safer, especially for our most vulnerable community members, while also not becoming our own police.
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“Working It” Says the Quiet Parts Out Loud About Sex Work
Before I was a sex worker, I was a proud sex worker ally.
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‘How it Works Out’ Imagines Many Madcap Alternate Universes of Queer Love
It’s a gorgeous, speculative exercise in romance that’s as bound together as it is fragmented.
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The Essays in “Wanting” Show the Power of Vulnerability
Although I have many of them at any given time, I don’t usually speak my desires out loud.
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Two Women Find Love in a Quirky Southern Town in “Love and Hot Chicken”
Slow burn romance in a small Southern town gives this queer novel its heat.