July Westhale Archives

April 19, 2016 2 min read

In a world struggling with identity and how to behave, with big political questions of belonging/not belonging, Ask a Queer Chick is a gentle and educational guide for all of us Read More

‘All We Lack’ by Sandra Moran

July Westhale

Fiction Reviews

January 24, 2016 1 min read

“Oh, sometimes it is as if desire itself had been given form, and acreage, and I’d been left for lost...

‘Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy’ Edited by Damien Luxe, Heather María Ács & Sabina Ibarrola’

July Westhale

Anthology Nonfiction

December 26, 2015 2 min read

The essays and performance pieces in this anthology add to a collective tale while remaining essentially singular Read More

‘Pretty Much Dead’ by Daphne Gottlieb

July Westhale

Poetry Reviews

November 24, 2015 1 min read

This collection covers multitudes—the emotional and physical landscape of San Francisco, the politics of change, nontraditional intimacies, and stories of a city well-loved and well-complicated by the passing of time Read More

‘Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home’ by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

July Westhale

Bio/Memoir Reviews

November 15, 2015 2 min read

Dirty River goes above and beyond being a story of survival; it is a femme manifesto Read More

‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ by Bill Clegg

July Westhale

Fiction Reviews

October 31, 2015 2 min read

In this novel, fifty year old June Reid is faced with the irreconcilable deaths of every person in her family—a fate she was spared from by pure happenstance Read More

‘I Must Be Living Twice’ by Eileen Myles

July Westhale

Poetry Reviews

October 12, 2015 1 min read

There is infrequently anything as marvelous as being taken with a writer to a place in a whirlwind—to be rushed through streets, through lives, through interactions, through memory Read More

‘Let Me Explain You’ by Annie Liontas

July Westhale

Fiction Reviews

August 14, 2015 3 min read

Let Me Explain You is a story about relationships—between sisters, between countrymen, between people and place, between food and memory, between languages, between time and space Read More

‘Counternarratives’ by John Keene

July Westhale

Fiction

July 22, 2015 1 min read

The remarkable thing about this kind of book--this expansive, wide-reaching book--is that the writer expects the reader to be as well-read as they are, or to at least engage with the text in an intentional way Read More

‘Vera’s Will’ by Shelley Ettinger

July Westhale

Fiction Reviews

June 18, 2015 1 min read

“Don’t go. Let me show you what it looks like when surrender, and an instinct not to, live side by...

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

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

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

‘Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls’ by Lindsay King-Miller

‘All We Lack’ by Sandra Moran

‘Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy’ Edited by Damien Luxe, Heather María Ács & Sabina Ibarrola’

‘Pretty Much Dead’ by Daphne Gottlieb

‘Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home’ by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ by Bill Clegg

‘I Must Be Living Twice’ by Eileen Myles

‘Let Me Explain You’ by Annie Liontas

‘Counternarratives’ by John Keene

‘Vera’s Will’ by Shelley Ettinger

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