Ruby Tandoh on selling the seaside, nobody knows what’s happening online anymore, Caity Weaver looks for Tom Cruise near the airport, Patricia Lockwood takes her husband to the Bowel Unit, a journey through the annals of “Blurred Lines,” we ask if crosswords can be more inclusive and more longreads for your weekend.
“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and memory on which new communities are built.”
“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”
“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”
There’s something so intimate and terrifying about mouth horror.
“I feel a sense of belonging among things that are terrifying and cause fear and cause chaos.”
Author Kristen Arnett writes on growing up in a house where books were banned and becoming a queer librarian in Florida.
However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.
In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.
Topics include the late shift at a Toronto massage parlor, Baptist Vegas, the New Ken circa 2017 by Caity Weaver, Buy Nothing, Daily Harvest, a missing girl in the Ozarks, a mountain-climbing death that changed everything and more!
For Ela Przybylo, the concept of “asexual erotics” emphasizes non-sexual intimacy and ways of relating to one another.
How come so many LGBTQ people worship divas, pop stars, and tragic Hollywood figures? How do LGBTQ readers, viewers, and listeners find queer pleasure in media targeted to the mainstream?
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
How do we hold transness and disability together, rather than denying the ways the “bad feelings” like dysphoria and anxiety have historically been a key part of trans thought, art, politics, and media?
Adeyemi told me when we talked in May that she has long been “frustrated with writing about queer nightlife that really presents it as this utopian escape from everyday life.” “That’s a story, it’s not reality,” she argues.
“I am a queer person who grew up in and has lived in small communities, small towns, and small cities for my entire life.”
Our bodies deserve exuberant fabrics and innovative design and can highlight beautiful parts of what society typically erases.
With a killer voiceover cast and a creative team with strong theater cred, the Audible version of Dykes to Watch Out For looks hot.
Our perception of history is shaped by who writes the stories and who publishes them.
“We do not have to do anything more to be worthy; we are worthy just because we are.”