Results for: be the change
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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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“Free Them All” Makes a Feminist Argument for Prison Abolition
Gwénola Ricordeau has written an ideal academic text. It is, at once, simple to read and complex in its ideology.
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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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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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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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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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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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Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents
For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.
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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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I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”
Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.
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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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Sarah Viren’s Memoir Is A Compelling Exploration of the Nature of Truth
When we live in a society where truth matters so little, what are we supposed to do with it once we have it?
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In “Pageboy,” Elliot Page Gets Vulnerable About Gender Dysphoria, Trans Joy, and Much More
Like a lot of millennials my age, I grew up watching Elliot Page’s films and his ascent to stardom
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Moby Dyke Is a Fresh Take on the Old Conversation About Disappearing Lesbian Bars
I didn’t go to my first lesbian bar until I was in my early twenties.
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“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody
Reading this book was compelling, fluid, and joyous.
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“Girls Can Kiss Now” and Other Realizations with Jill Gutowitz
We reviewed “Girls Can Kiss Now,” Jill Gutowitz’s debut essay collection about pop culture, the internet, growing up, and being very very gay. You’re gonna love it.
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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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Gender Nonconformity Has Always Existed
Trans activist and historian Kit Heyam’s new book Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender examines gender nonconformity throughout history.
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Perfume Provides a Map of Memory and History in This Powerful Memoir
Tanaïs’ In Sensorium is an aesthetic, intimate labyrinth of ancestral reckoning and identity.
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“A Darker Wilderness” Carves a Space for Blackness in Nature
I held these words close as I walked through my neighborhood in a town named after perhaps the most famous colonizer in the Americas.