In her gorgeous new book, Cinema Her Way, writer and film critic Marya E. Gates interviews 19 female filmmakers — including Cheryl Dunye, Karyn Kusama, and Isabel Sandoval — about their work, and their experiences in the film industry.
April is a stacked month for LGBTQ+ books, so get in here and find out what to add to your TBR stack!
What would things have looked like if we got openly queer Kristen Stewart from the beginning of the Twilight franchise?
“The truth is people who fight for you to have liberty, they fight for you to be a goofy bitch, too.”
The laws of masculinity, and the ways in which they restrict and influence gender, infect every story (and novel) included in Torrey Peters’ collection, Stag Dance.
Mourning the end of another season of Severance? Well go read these queer books about grief, capitalism, and the horrors of having a job.
Arnett’s work is a reminder of something we often shy away from: What is the point of experiencing all of the pains of the human condition if we can’t, at some point, get a good laugh in about it?
“How many scenes have had people work something out at a diner? Can’t that happen at an Olive Garden?”
Feminist fairytales, girlhood horror, and genre-bending books for the feral gays hungry for more Yellowjackets-adjacent stories!
New Torrey Peters! A debut novel from Emily St. James! Queer, Black poetry collections! March is gonna be a great month for LGBTQ literature.
“I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda. I would do anything to not be annoying.”
The Last Bookstore on Earth is a YA dystopian novel set in a bookstore and full of sapphic yearning.
Check out our top five picks for the month along with the rest of the LGBTQ book slate for February.
Chirp of tree frogs floating sonorous, each piercing chirrup rising on the wane of the last. I’m in my childhood home.
These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.
Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.
As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches. Adding a Florida bookstore road trip to your next vacation in the sunshine state will let you see parts of this place in a deeper way.
Catch up on all the great queer poetry from this year!
We talked to Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig about Allstora’s PANTS Pod book club and its mission to uplift queer authors, connect with pod listeners and read some really good lesbian books.
This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.