Results for: work in progress
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New Book “Solidarity” Is Necessary Read, Even if It’s Difficult To Apply to All Liberation Movements
As with most nonfiction books about political topics, I finished Solidarity with more questions than answers about how to integrate its concepts into my day-to-day life.
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“Chaos Agent” Has One of the Most Complicated, Heartbreaking Lesbian Romance Protagonists I’ve Ever Read
If everyone was defined by the worst things they’d ever done, then we’d never get a happy ending. And we deserve that, don’t we?
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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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“Your Driver Is Waiting” Review: I’m Obsessed With the Swole Bisexual Narrator of This Rip-Roaring Novel
Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.
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Documenting and Honoring Queer History Requires Imagination
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories, a new book by cultural historian Diarmuid Hester, shows us what is possible when we consider space in this way.
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‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive
Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.
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Juniper Fitzgerald’s Queer Memoir-in-Fragments Examines Her Identities as a Sex Worker and Mother
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.
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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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“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors
This book contains, notably, an essay by Michelle Tea that is still ringing in my ears.
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New “Fire Island” Book Weaves Personal, Historical Narrative To Highlight Power of Community Solidarity
More a place-based memoir than a straightforward history, “Fire Island” provides unique insight on the history, present, and future of this almost mythical place.
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As Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Ramps Up in My Home State, I Find Myself Returning to This Book
It’s been a rough time to be a queer from Tennessee.
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Fatimah Asghar’s New Novel Is a Salve for My Reality of Grief
Nothing lasts, though — not our parents, not our homes, not our relationships, not us.
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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
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A Conversation With Jhani Randhawa About Their Poetry Collection “Time Regime”
In this creative nonfiction+artist interview chimera, Almah LaVon Rice reviews the poetry collection Time Regime and wanders its estuaries with author Jhani Randhawa.