Nonfiction Archives

April 19, 2017 2 min read

Living a Feminist Life is sectioned into three parts which cover, respectively, the path and necessity of becoming feminist, the challenges of diversity work, and the consequences of being deliberate in one’s feminism Read More

‘A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout’ Edited by Marilyn R. Schuster

Rachel Wexelbaum

Reviews

April 13, 2017 3 min read

Those who live in the United States—including the queer community—know very little about the contemporary LGBTIQ history of Canada that...

‘Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility’ by Jonathan Goldberg

Maxe Crandall

Reviews

April 8, 2017 3 min read

Jonathan Goldberg’s new book Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility offers a kaleidoscopic consideration of this cherished queer genre. Read More

‘Equality: What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality?’ Edited by Paul Alan Fahey

Frank Pizzoli

Nonfiction

April 6, 2017 2 min read

Is equality like obscenity?* You’ll know it when you see it?...

‘The Crunk Feminist Collective’ Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn

Aries Hines

Reviews

April 3, 2017 3 min read

The Crunk Feminist Collective, or CFC, in both title and in this collection of essays creates a prolific multi-layered space that exists as a guidebook for survival, methodology, and conversation Read More

‘The War on Sex’ Edited by David M. Halperin and Trevor Hoppe

Ben Miller

Reviews

March 26, 2017 3 min read

We are living through a little-discussed assault on sexual freedoms that is pioneering new, subtle, and insidious methods of social control: this is the disturbing and difficult-to-refute thesis of The War on Sex Read More

‘No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies’ Edited by E. Patrick Johnson

Sarah Fonseca

Nonfiction

March 9, 2017 7 min read

In 2005, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson and E. Patrick Johnson edited Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. BQS was a first...

‘Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver’ edited by Daniel J. Murtaugh

David Pratt

Nonfiction Reviews

February 19, 2017 4 min read

These letters add a final, nuanced stroke to our picture of British novelist Denton Welch. Read More

‘Murder in the Closet: Essays in Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall’ Edited by Curtis Evans

Kevin Killian

Nonfiction Reviews

February 8, 2017 4 min read

Murder in the Closet allows like-minded scholars and laypersons to recognize and celebrate the queer underpinnings that have lain dormant, hidden in plain sight, in the works of a range of authors from Agatha Christie to Arthur Conan Doyle to Raymond Chandler, all the way through to Stonewall and a little beyond. Read More

‘Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume 2’ by Nia King and Elena Rose

Cathy Camper

Nonfiction Reviews

January 31, 2017 3 min read

For anyone feeling terrorized by the Trump administration’s dire promises, Nia King’s Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume 2 is the perfect antidote to fear and an inspiring handbook of activist creations 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

Teen Witches on the Move! Read Hannah Abigail Clarke’s The Scapegracers

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

‘Living a Feminist Life’ by Sara Ahmed

‘A Queer Love Story: The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout’ Edited by Marilyn R. Schuster

‘Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility’ by Jonathan Goldberg

‘Equality: What Do You Think About When You Think of Equality?’ Edited by Paul Alan Fahey

‘The Crunk Feminist Collective’ Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn

‘No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies’ Edited by E. Patrick Johnson

‘Good Night, Beloved Comrade: The Letters of Denton Welch to Eric Oliver’ edited by Daniel J. Murtaugh

‘Murder in the Closet: Essays in Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall’ Edited by Curtis Evans

‘Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume 2’ by Nia King and Elena Rose

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