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July 20, 2020 14 min read

The following is excerpted from The Pull of the Stars (Little Brown and Company), the new novel by Emma Donoghue. Mirroring our current pandemic moment, The Pull of...

A Conversation with In the Dream House

Leo Rachman

Features

July 17, 2020 11 min read

House idioms and their variants, in fact, often signify the opposite of safety and security. If something is a house...

David Wojnarowicz’s Writing Offers a Call to Action

Nadia Niva

Features

July 15, 2020 12 min read

“I’m trying to lift off the weight of the preinvented world so I can see what’s underneath it all.” —David...

J.K. Rowling, Neil Gorsuch, and Biological Essentialism

Olive Maurstad

Features

July 14, 2020 8 min read

The day the Supreme Court ruled on R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a...

My Gender is “Predestined”: Queer Tabletop Role-playing Games

Sarah Donnelly

Features

July 13, 2020 4 min read

Here is an image: three college students sit sprawled on couches in a dormitory common room. Papers cover the coffee...

How Queer Witches Helped Me Come Out

Hanna Schoenbaum

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July 9, 2020 4 min read

Back in the summer of 2011, an awkward 14 year old me was sitting on the Stockholm City Commuter rail...

Dead Lesbian Poets: A Meditation in Six Parts

Julie R. Enszer

Features

July 8, 2020 25 min read

“Song is a persuasive thing: let girls learn to sing…”“Sappho to Phaon,” Ovid, translated by Judith P. Hallett I. Leucadian...

Cooper Lee Bombardier on Writing Fearlessly and Intercommunity Struggles

Casey Plett

Features

July 7, 2020 7 min read

“But the future came, whether I was ready for it or not.” That’s from the introduction of Cooper Lee Bombardier’s...

July’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books

Leo Rachman

Features

July 2, 2020 11 min read

Pride Month is behind us, and an unsteady future is ahead of us. In the words of Marsha P. Johnson,...

Lesbian Love on the Doomed Titanic Voyage

Edit Team

Excerpts

June 25, 2020 11 min read

Our hearts will definitely go on thanks to the new novella by writer Sarah Fonseca. Fonseca’s Sea Queens deepens the...

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Why are Faggots so Afraid of Faggots: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform’ edited by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

Navigating a Pandemic: An Excerpt from Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars

A Conversation with In the Dream House

David Wojnarowicz’s Writing Offers a Call to Action

J.K. Rowling, Neil Gorsuch, and Biological Essentialism

My Gender is “Predestined”: Queer Tabletop Role-playing Games

How Queer Witches Helped Me Come Out

Dead Lesbian Poets: A Meditation in Six Parts

Cooper Lee Bombardier on Writing Fearlessly and Intercommunity Struggles

July’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books

Lesbian Love on the Doomed Titanic Voyage

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta