‘Goodnight Moon’ and the Queer Love Story of the Great Green Room Lizzy Lemieux Bio/Memoir September 1, 2020 4 min readAuthor Margaret Wise often stated that the inspiration for the great green room, in her beloved children’s book Goodnight Moon,...
Queer History and Roller Coasters: Vera Kelly’s Thrilling Second Installment Meredith Doench Reviews August 31, 2020 3 min readIt’s a beautiful thing to see a strong female character collect the shards of a shattered life and build something...
The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic Offers a Feast of Memories and Lessons Michael Graves Reviews August 24, 2020 4 min readIs Miah Jeffra a philosopher? Is he, perhaps, a prophet? Is Miah Jeffra, author of The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic, a...
The Death of Vivek Oji is a Mosaic of Love, Pain, Community, and Beauty Sarah Neilson Reviews August 19, 2020 2 min readThe title of Akwaeke Emezi’s new novel, The Death of Vivek Oji (Riverhead), gives away its ending before the book...
Film Critic Robin Wood Found the Horror Lurking in a Judy Garland Classic Hanna Schoenbaum Film August 18, 2020 5 min readSome people enjoy the thrill of a roller coaster teetering towards the inevitable drop. The sensation creeps in your gut...
Camp Combines Romance & Musical Theater for a Thrilling Summer Read Michele Kirichanskaya Reviews August 17, 2020 1 min readEvery summer since he was twice, Randy Kapplehoff has gone to Camp Outland, a summer paradise for queer kids where...
The Fixed Stars Unpacks the Complexities of Romantic Desire Anne Charles Reviews August 11, 2020 3 min readMolly Wizenberg’s third memoir The Fixed Stars contains many narratives. It is the story of a young woman’s childhood in...
In Crossfire, Staceyann Chin Observes and Denounces Obstacles to Loving the Self Sarah Sarai Reviews August 9, 2020 3 min readStaceyann Chin’s poems know “how beautiful you are” and want to convince you of same. In her first full-length collection,...
Need a Hug? Read Kabi Nagata’s My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness Lizzy Lemieux Reviews August 9, 2020 4 min readIn the first chapter of Kabi Nagata’s candy-floss colored, autobiographical manga, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, the author finds herself...
The Expertly Wrought Here is the Sweet Hand Contains Humor, Desire, and Terror Lynn McGee Reviews August 3, 2020 4 min readFull disclosure, I like prepositions to help out in the small ways I expect, and if a verb is used...
