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Fair Play: How Sports Shape the Gender Debates by Katie Barnes

“Fair Play” Reflects on the Origins of the Trans Sports Debate and How We Can End It

Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwénola Ricordeau

“Free Them All” Makes a Feminist Argument for Prison Abolition

Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland

Jenn Shapland’s “Thin Skin” Will Make You Believe Another Life Is Possible

Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland

EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life

Raving by McKenzie Wark

Explore NYC’s Underground Queer and Trans Rave Scene in “Raving”

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

“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors

The Color Pynk by Omise’eke Tinsley

Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival

Finding the Fool by Meg Jones Wall

“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody

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

The Essays in “Wanting” Show the Power of Vulnerability

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

“A Darker Wilderness” Carves a Space for Blackness in Nature

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.”

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

Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art by Nicole Morse

Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies

Two protesters with Act Up march in 1988

Marika Cifor Wants You To Activate Your Nostalgia for ACT UP

It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

“It Came From the Closet” Gave Me New Appreciation for the Horror Genre

Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam

Gender Nonconformity Has Always Existed

Diary of a Misfit by Casey Parks

In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History

Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves from Catapult Books features a bunch of colorful illustrated bodies

“Body Language” Anthology Offers Invitation To Reckon With Our Messy Bits

Virology by Joe Osmundson

Joe Osmundson on Expansive Science Writing and Living in an Impossible World

The cover of Brown Neon: Essays by Raquel Gutiérrez features the title and author name in blue neon sign lettering against a landscape background.

“Brown Neon” Is a Tribute to the Power of Art and Community in the American Southwest

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