K. Allison Hammer Imagines the Queer and Trans Possibilities of Masculinity
Rather than focus on individual, exceptional figures of toxic masculinity, Hammer wanted to explore masculinity as a cultural form that people of all genders can embody.
Documenting and Honoring Queer History Requires Imagination
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories, a new book by cultural historian Diarmuid Hester, shows us what is possible when we consider space in this way.
Lamya H on Queer Muslim Community and Leslie Feinberg’s Influence on Their Memoir
“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”
11 Queer Romance + YA Comfort Reads I Revisit on Bad Days
When I find myself needing comfort from the atrocities of being an adult, these are the books I usually turn to.
An Exclusive Preview of “Critical Role: Mighty Nein Origins,” Featuring Our Resident Disaster Lesbian, Beauregard Lionett!
Take a look back at Beau’s life before she was the badass monk (pop pop!) we know and love from Critical Role; see what she got up to before she joined the Mighty Nein, and get to the root of her daddy issues.
New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife
There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious thoughts about queerness and what it means to be a queer person.
“We’re a Surviving Sort of Species”: Venita Blackburn on Grief and How We Live With It
“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”
“Dead in Long Beach, California” and the Inevitability of Grief
Venita Blackburn’s debut novel is a masterful feat of storytelling.
“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers
There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.
Embracing the Dark Pleasures of Dystopian Literature: 10 Novels That Inspired Me To Write My Own
“I worked on this book between 2019 and 2023, years not exactly known for… incredible progress. In many ways, letting myself slip into another, imaginary world — albeit a worse one — was how I made sense of it all.”
Consider This: Listening to an Audiobook While Doing a Jigsaw Puzzle
I have unlocked a new level of intellectual heaven: listening to an audiobook while doing a jigsaw puzzle.
“Alice Sadie Celine” Is a Delectable Queer Sex Novel With a Wicked Sense of Humor
If you’re less into slow-burn and more into the narrative equivalent of a wildfire, this one’s for you.
The U.S. Occupation of Hawaiʻi Haunts the Pages of This Extraordinary Short Fiction Collection
It’s beautifully constructed from start to finish, and while the stories will get under your skin, it’s a welcome invasion.
“Here Are All My Favorite Delusions, I Hope You Like Them”: Talking to Gabrielle Korn About Queer Dystopian Novel “Yours For The Taking”
“I feel like so much of the theme of ‘straight women idealizing women’ just came from my dark times in women’s media. This idea that if you have a space that’s just women that it’s somehow superior — that just became so funny to me!”
“Survival Takes a Wild Imagination” Shows How the Labor of Liberation Makes Us Better
Through her newest collection of poetry, Fariha Róisín explores her experiences as a queer, Muslim, Bangladeshi woman trying to heal from a childhood of abuse and the pain of generational trauma.
The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023
I thought it would be fun to do a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing.
Short Fiction Collection “Girlfriends” Presents Expansive, Nonlinear View of Transition and Dysphoria
The trans women in Girlfriends often find themselves stuck in the spiderweb of someone else’s drama or self-implosion.
Sapphic Yearning, Horror, and K-Pop Blend Perfectly in “Gorgeous Gruesome Faces”
I’ve never really been a horror girlie, but in recent months, I’ve found myself intrigued by YA books that have a horror element.
LGBTQ Fiction Sales Are Up, but We Still Urgently Need Creative Ways To Fight Book Bans
What does the LGBTQ book landscape look like right now? It’s complicated.
Things I Read That I Love #333: Erewhon, Melrose Place, The Bowel Unit, Blurred Lines and Crosswords
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.