“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.
Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival
A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming.
“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody
Reading this book was compelling, fluid, and joyous.
“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.
Right Now – A+ Read a Fucking Book Club: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Join us for a Q&A with author M. Crane! Right now! See you there?
Queer Naija Lit: 2005’s “Walking With Shadows” Is a Meditation on Shame, Rupture, and Repair
As a child, I wasn’t different because I was gay (that came with teenagehood), I was different because I was autistic.
Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories Featuring Pop Culture
Find sexy pirates, bachelorette viewing parties, and Whitney Houston crushes in these pop culture-packed queer short stories.
Rainbow Reading: This Upcoming Book Is a Queer Retelling of Robin Hood About DYKES ON BIKES
It sounds like Robin Hood meets Fast and the Furious and very GAY.
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.
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.
“Big Swiss” Review: On the Queer Age Gap Novel Set in a House Full of Bees
Big Swiss veers from horny to humorous to macabre in zigs and zags.
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.
Eight Books Across Genres on Queer Autistic Experiences
This list of queer and/or trans focused books about autism are mostly nonfiction, but I’ve also included a few novels by queer autistic authors featuring queer autistic characters, including science fiction, fantasy, and romance.
A+ Read a Fucking Book Club: I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Join us for a Q&A with author M. Crane!
“Sorry, Bro” Is an Ideal Bisexual Romance Novel To Read This Month
If you find yourself needing a bit of sweetness and charm in these early, dreary months of the year, Sorry, Bro is a perfect pick me up.
“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.
Speculative Short Fiction Collection “Sweetlust” Disturbs and Delights
This is a deeply feminist work, but it’s not sanitized, commodified feminism. The feminism here is raw, living, harsh and at times, violent.
This Butch4Butch Manga Made Me Feel Heartbroken and Heartfixed
The Girl That Can’t Get A Girlfriend is an autobiographic manga by Mieri Hiranishi that follows her first crush, her first relationship, her first breakup, and trying to move on afterwards.
A Sweet Sixteen Becomes a Coming Out Party in Queer YA Novel “Friday I’m in Love”
The scene where Mahalia — the Black queer teen at the center of Camryn Garrett’s new novel — comes out to her mom is painful but honest.
“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?