Interviews Archives

April 29, 2018 8 min read

"As a poet who came to prose after 15 years of writing poems, I’m always paying attention to words, to sound and rhythm, to images and metaphors, as well as ideas and arguments." Read More

Erin O. White: On Reconciling Faith and Sexuality

MB Caschetta

Interviews

April 25, 2018 7 min read

"[...] it's embarrassing to love something that doesn't love you back. You don't want to seem naive, or self-loathing. You don't want to be a bad lesbian. So I think even acknowledging faith is a very vulnerable act for a queer person. Writing about it is even harder." Read More

Joy Ladin: On Trans Poetics, God, and Being Human

Samantha Pious

Interviews

April 22, 2018 4 min read

"None of the categories we depend on are ever fully adequate to represent us, so poetry must always find ways to represent us, whatever we are, that go beyond ready-made language." Read More

Christopher Zeischegg on Life as a Porn Star and His New Book ‘Body to Job’

Sara Rauch

Interviews

April 17, 2018 8 min read

"Porn gave me material to explore. I didn’t need to go out and research something. I was living it. The research was my life." Read More

Yrsa Daley-Ward: On Divorcing Analysis from Process and Voicing the Unspoken

Thomas March

Interviews

April 11, 2018 13 min read

"Things have so many edges, so much nuance, and that's why poetry's so beautiful, because you can relate to something that was really quite disturbing or dark, and approach it almost in a tongue and cheek manner." Read More

Judith Katz and Hilary Zaid on Inheritance, Influence, and the State of the 21st Century Lesbian Novel

Edit Team

Interviews

April 10, 2018 10 min read

"To be a queer writer is to stand in relation to two sometimes overlapping, sometimes diverging traditions [...]" Read More

Chelsey Johnson on Her New Novel ‘Stray City’, Her Musical Influences, and Capturing the 90s

Carter Sickels

Interviews

March 25, 2018 10 min read

"Punk and riot grrrl influenced me hugely, not just musically but politically and aesthetically as well, and my friends too." Read More

Writer Clayton Delery on Reconstructing a Hate Crime

Nahshon Dion

Interviews

February 15, 2018 7 min read

In 1958, Fernando Rios was led into an alley outside a New Orleans gay bar, where he was beaten to death by there college students. Clayton Delery's new book examines this hate crime and its connections to anti-immigrant prejudices and homophobia in 1950s America Read More

Amy Heart: On Editing ‘The Resilience Anthology’

Nahshon Dion

Interviews

February 7, 2018 6 min read

Amy Heart is a queer storyteller committed to lifting the voices of transgender girls and women Read More

Author André Aciman on the Film Adaptation of ‘Call Me By Your Name’

Brandi Spaethe

Interviews

February 1, 2018 13 min read

"I figured, okay, it's going to be a film and that's going to be the end of that, but I had no idea that it would be nominated for any Golden Globes. " Read More

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

‘Gaylord Phoenix’ by Edie Fake

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

Eli Clare on Examining Disability Justice and Writing Cross-Genre

Erin O. White: On Reconciling Faith and Sexuality

Joy Ladin: On Trans Poetics, God, and Being Human

Christopher Zeischegg on Life as a Porn Star and His New Book ‘Body to Job’

Yrsa Daley-Ward: On Divorcing Analysis from Process and Voicing the Unspoken

Judith Katz and Hilary Zaid on Inheritance, Influence, and the State of the 21st Century Lesbian Novel

Chelsey Johnson on Her New Novel ‘Stray City’, Her Musical Influences, and Capturing the 90s

Writer Clayton Delery on Reconstructing a Hate Crime

Amy Heart: On Editing ‘The Resilience Anthology’

Author André Aciman on the Film Adaptation of ‘Call Me By Your Name’

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