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The book matchmaking in the Archive: 19 Conversations with the Dead and 3 Encounters with Ghosts
LGBT Book Reviews

“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.

Nico March 3, 2023 4 Comments
Finding the Fool by Meg Jones Wall
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft LGBT Book Reviews

“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody

Reading this book was compelling, fluid, and joyous.

danijanae March 1, 2023 7 Comments
Your Driver Is Waiting by Priya Guns features a rearview mirror with a desi woman's face reflected in it and an air freshener on fire.
LGBT Book Reviews

“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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 28, 2023 12 Comments
Walking with Shadows by Jude Dibia features hands groping a man's bare chest
LGBT Book Reviews

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. 

Chinelo Anyadiegwu February 27, 2023 3 Comments
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture features multicolored blocks on its cover
LGBT Book Reviews LGBT History

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.

Stef Rubino February 22, 2023 1 Comment
Unsafe Words: Queering Consent in the #MeToo Era
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Nico February 21, 2023 1 Comment
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin features a woman howling and laying on the floor with a white milkmaid dress on
LGBT Book Reviews

“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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 21, 2023 17 Comments
Wanting: Women Writing About Desire, edited by Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, including essays by Kristen Arnett, Aracelis Girmay, Sonora Jha, Torrey Peters, Larissa Pham, and Lisa Taddeo
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Stef Rubino February 17, 2023 2 Comments
The cover of Sorry, Bro by Taleen Voskuni features two women having a picnic with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge
LGBT Book Reviews

“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.

Christina Tucker February 15, 2023 8 Comments
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, edited by Erin Sharkey, featuring a Black girl in an open field holding a plate in outstretched arms
LGBT Book Reviews

“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.

shea wesley martin February 14, 2023 5 Comments
Sweetlust by Asja Bakić features a crashing wave in seafoam and pink shades
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Nico February 13, 2023 2 Comments
The Girls That Can't Get a Girlfriend by Mieri Hiranishi features a blonde girl with swirly hair holding a hand up to a brunette girl holding a heart with her mouth open
LGBT Book Reviews

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. Tony Jerome February 12, 2023 6 Comments
Friday I'm In Love by Camryn Garrett features a young Black girl wearing a rainbow dress on its cover
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Sa'iyda Shabazz February 10, 2023 3 Comments
Chaos Agent by Lee Winter features a woman's face smelling a red flower
LGBT Book Reviews

“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?

Christina Tucker February 9, 2023 3 Comments
The cover of Endpapers, by Jennifer Savran Kelly. The book has a dark yellow background, and the title and author are collaged, interspersed with the collaged parts of a white person's face and the NYC skyline.
LGBT Book Reviews

“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?

Darcy February 8, 2023 4 Comments
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H features a person in a hijab against a sunset-like background
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Stef Rubino February 7, 2023 5 Comments
I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself by M Crane features a blue cover and a black shadowy figure
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Yashwina February 3, 2023 7 Comments
Lives of Great Men by Chike Frankie Edozien
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu January 30, 2023 2 Comments
Mareid Sullivan's book Lesbian Death is purple and features the words: “That I find it so anxiety-producing to create a project on the lesbian is precisely why I have written this book. I have written this book because I am not a lesbian. I have written this book because associating my work with lesbian makes me endlessly nervous. I have written this book because I find so much richness in lesbian histories and lesbian culture. I have written this book because I have spent endless hours in archives of lesbian activists, and I have loved every minute. I have written this book because lesbians have saved me, gave me a home, gave me language, showed me a future. I have also written this book because lesbian has been weaponized, used to instigate, justify, and perpetuate anti-trans violence and vitriol. I have written this book because I want the generations that worry that lesbian has been or is being forgotten to know that we remember. I have written this book because I feel myself holding on to the political and identitarian commitments that served me but no longer serve my students. I have written this book because I feel scared to be branded as a lesbian scholar (rather than a scholar of the lesbian). I have written this book because I cannot let lesbian go. Mostly, I have written this book because I really do love lesbians.”
LGBT Book Reviews

Mairead Sullivan’s “Lesbian Death” Tells Us Why the L Isn’t Disappearing

Mairead Sullivan’s new book, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer explores and aims to disrupt our contemporary anxieties around the disappearance of the term “lesbian” as an identity, political standpoint, and theoretical concept.

Lauren Herold January 27, 2023 10 Comments
Fieldwork by Iliana Regan
LGBT Book Reviews

“Fieldwork” Review: A Lush, Chewy Memoir Full of Mushrooms

Michelin-star chef Iliana Regan takes you back to her family’s farmhouse.

Stef Rubino January 24, 2023
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