Explore NYC’s Underground Queer and Trans Rave Scene in “Raving”
Readers are constantly reminded that so much of what makes white-dominated raves comes from Black culture.
Queer Novella Reimagines Sherlock Holmes and Watson As College Ex-Girlfriends
“The Mimicking of Known Successes” provides a delightful mashup of science fiction and cozy mystery, with a delicious side of sapphic romance.
“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.
“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.
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.
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.
“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?
“Endpapers” Is a Glimpse Into One Artist’s Fight To Be Themselves
Set against the authoritarian backdrops of the McCarthy era and George W. Bush’s post 9/11 America, “Endpapers” asks: What happens when we stop trying to force ourselves to be something we’re not?
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.
Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
Queer Naija Lit: “The Lives of Great Men” Interrogates the Measures of Masculinity and Greatness
My internal identity journey as a black genderfluid person involves engaging with my relationship to masculinity.