If I’m being honest, it’s one of the better written celebrity fiction novels that I’ve read (and I’ve read Lauren Conrad’s YA series).

I have seen some angry women in fantasy stories before, but I have never felt the kind of fury pulsating off of them the way I did with queer water-bender Nehal.

Although I have many of them at any given time, I don’t usually speak my desires out loud.

This is Jen Wilde’s first thriller, but I hope not her last.

Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.

I didn’t know this book at all until a few months ago. I borrowed it thinking it’d be hilarious to read in public spaces and have people give me questionable stares. That mentality was replaced by the desire to build bridges.

Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.

Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.

This is a deeply feminist work, but it’s not sanitized, commodified feminism. The feminism here is raw, living, harsh and at times, violent.

Before I was a sex worker, I was a proud sex worker ally.

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.

We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.

The chaotic art school tale is a confident debut from Antonia Angress.

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.

In resisting the tidiness of a happy ending, Conklin demonstrates something profound and important that made me cry at several of these stories.

Come for the Victorian menopause psychoanalysis mad lib; stay for the ode to cooling pillows. Heather Corinna has gifted us the queer and trans-inclusive book about menopause you didn’t know you desperately need to read, with delightful illustrations by Archie Bongiovanni!

I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.

We Too maps out the underground ecosystems of sex worker survival and self-determination that are literally the building blocks of a new world order.

“The truth is I don’t know how to review Detransition, Baby. Torrey was too successful in what she set out to accomplish. If trans women have been and remain her primary audience then I, a trans woman, don’t know what to say from a place of supposed objectivity. The fact that this is not a PDF free on her website but a hardcover book garnering an immense amount of buzz fills me with a joy I can explain and a terror I cannot.”

Autostraddle recently spoke with Tina Horn via video call to chat about the first volume of SFSX, her myriad influences, building community around art, the sex worker rights’ movement, and incels.