Whether parable or polemic, fantasy or futurism, science fiction has long provided sanctuary for the queer writer’s imagination. Yet to...
In my town, a pair of queer, Italian-American siblings regularly host farm-to-table dinners called Finocchi. I went to one on...
On September 11th, 2001, Nell Rifkin finally got to talk to Fay Vasquez-Rabinowitz. That’s not the most important thing that...
Ashley Robin Franklin speaks with Erasmo Guerra about her debut YA graphic novel "The Hills of Estrella Roja" (Harper Collins/Clarion, 2023), which is a spooky adventure story about two young women who team up to uncover the mysteries of the rural outpost of Estrella Roja. Read More
Can you ever really know someone else? The cliche is you can’t know someone until you’ve walked in their shoes. Perhaps that’s true. But does that mean you don’t know your partner? Will you ever? And if one wanted to, what would it take to get there? Read More
Thanks to queer theory – and I mean that sincerely – discursive gymnastics are now an amusing accompaniment to our usually failed attempts to define slippery identity categories that we, by turns, lean into and resist as members of the queer community. I am as guilty as the next gay-queer of both grasping for and pushing against some tangible-yet-nebulous form of gayness. I spend a great deal of time thinking about how we define ourselves, think ourselves into the world, and navigate life as individuals and parts of larger wholes. I don’t have many answers; this makes me restless. Multitudinous as I am, though, I quite like being restless. Which brings me to my recently concluded excursion into the world of Bad Gays by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller. Read More
In Cassandra Khaw's haunting new novella, "The Salt Grows Heavy," the chilling taiga serves as a backdrop to a macabre fairy tale featuring a mute mermaid princess, haunted by the trauma of a cruel prince's exploitation, a mysterious plague doctor, and a pack of feral forest children. Read More
In moments of grief and distress, I continually find myself turning to the words of Audre Lorde. A few lines from her poem A Litany for Survival: Read More
In a compelling exploration of racial capitalism, Monica Huerta illuminates the intricate relationship between photography, property, and the body commodity through a critical analysis of copyright law. By intertwining queer performance theory with legal discourse, Huerta skillfully reveals the profound implications of juridical power on photographic mediums, offering readers a rich and thought-provoking perspective on the intersection of art, law, and societal structures. Read More