Feminist Press Archives

September 16, 2018 4 min read

Maggie Terry, Sarah Schulman's return to crime fiction, mixes the classic form with contemporary themes such as the Trump presidency and the Black Lives Matter movement Read More

‘Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms’ by Michelle Tea

Alyssa Greene

Reviews

May 20, 2018 2 min read

Against Memoir is a celebration of queer life, love, art, politics, history, pain, and joy Read More

‘We Were Witches’ by Ariel Gore

Daphne Sidor

Reviews

September 2, 2017 3 min read

Ariel Gore has a very different story to tell about queer parenthood with her new novel We Were Witches Read More

‘Since I Lay My Burden Down’ by Brontez Purnell

Frederick McKindra

Reviews

July 13, 2017 4 min read

Purnell chronicles a gay man's life in Oakland, before he returns to confront the ghosts still haunting him in his southern hometown Read More

‘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

‘Black Wave’ by Michelle Tea

Sara Rauch

Fiction Reviews

August 28, 2016 2 min read

Black Wave is about queer subculture and the importance of storytelling, and it’s an existential meditation on the consequences of choice. Read More

‘Beijing Comrades’ by Bei Tong

Steve Susoyev

Fiction Reviews

March 13, 2016 6 min read

Beijing Comrades is both a valuable piece of global gay history and a political phenomenon Read More

‘Icon’ Edited by Amy Scholder

Reginald Harris

Anthology Nonfiction

December 16, 2014 3 min read

"[...] it is striking how many of the authors in Icon were imprinted by their subjects in their teens or other formative moments in their lives, while working out who they were, and who they were not." Read More

The Banal and the Profane: Elizabeth Koke

William Johnson

The Banal & the Profane

September 22, 2014 8 min read

"Lately, my maternal fantasies have become almost as frequent as my homicidal ones." Read More

Valerie Taylor, Chronicler of Lesbos

Monica Nolan

Features Opinion

September 2, 2013 4 min read

Author Monica Nolan on lesbian pulp fiction writer Valerie Taylor. Read More

Reviews

On Becoming an HIV Pharmacist

December’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature

Becoming Malleable: A Review of Dream of Xibalba by Stephanie Adams-Santos

Random

Stephen Zerance, “Lindsay Lohan”

Features

On Becoming an HIV Pharmacist

December’s Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature

Call for In Remembrance for LGBTQIAP+ Authors

Interviews

Where are the Ancestors: Stephen Patrick Bell in Conversation with Justin Torres on Blackouts

A Conversation with Poet, Essayist, and Critic Matt Mitchell

With a Love Letter to Queer Black Folx, Dior Stephens Draws a Velvet Rope Around the Table They Set for Their Community

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

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

In Bed with Joan Nestle

‘Maggie Terry’ by Sarah Schulman

‘Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions, and Criticisms’ by Michelle Tea

‘We Were Witches’ by Ariel Gore

‘Since I Lay My Burden Down’ by Brontez Purnell

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

‘Black Wave’ by Michelle Tea

‘Beijing Comrades’ by Bei Tong

‘Icon’ Edited by Amy Scholder

The Banal and the Profane: Elizabeth Koke

Valerie Taylor, Chronicler of Lesbos

Becoming Malleable: A Review of Dream of Xibalba by Stephanie Adams-Santos

The Tea is Hot And So Are The Boys

A Faun in the Forest

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess