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“The Family Outing” Is a Vivid Memoir of Neglect, Secrets, and the Power of Family
Over the course of five years, Jessi Hempel came out as a lesbian; her dad then came out as gay, her sister as bisexual, and her brother as trans.
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“It Came From the Closet” Gave Me New Appreciation for the Horror Genre
Because we’re so frequently othered, many LGBTQ+ people find ourselves in horror film monsters.
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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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Lamya H’s Debut Memoir Is a Testament to the Powers of Faith and Hope
We live in a society so oppressive to those of us who dare to imagine better that we have very little incentive to keep imagining.
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In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History
What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active history of a place that most people are unfamiliar with.
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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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Putsata Reang’s New Memoir Fills In the Gaps of Lost Family History
Putsata Reang’s memoir “Ma and Me” grapples with what it means to carry intergenerational trauma not only as an Asian American, immigrant, and refugee but also as a queer person.
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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
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Chloe Caldwell on First Periods, PMDD, and That Weird Blue “Blood” in Tampon Commercials
The author discusses her new memoir “The Red Zone,” which chronicles her experiences with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and provides a kaleidoscopic view of how people feel about their periods.
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Seven Queer Writers Reflect on Their Essays Published in “Sex and the Single Woman”
Behind the scenes with Kristen Arnett, Keah Brown, Rosemary Donahue, Josie Pickens, Vanessa Friedman, Samantha Allen, and Xoai Pham about their contributions to this reimagined cult classic.
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Jeanna Kadlec’s “Heretic” Is a Memoir for the Witches Who Grew From Good Christian Women
Heretic is part memoir, part cultural critique, part political analysis, and part history, all viewed through the queer lens of a woman who grew up in the Midwest trying her hardest to be a Good Christian Girl, before finally accepting she’s a lesbian and nearly gnawing off her own arm to escape before she could be burned at the stake.
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Chris Belcher’s “Pretty Baby” Examines the Power of Shame in Our Culture
You don’t have to look very closely to see that shame is one of the foremost organizing principles of our society.
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“Brown Neon” Is a Tribute to the Power of Art and Community in the American Southwest
Over the course of these ten essays, Raquel Gutiérrez skillfully maps the realities, struggles, and joys of queer, Latinx, artistic life in the Southwest U.S.
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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.