*Lesbian Archives

May 26, 2010 2 min read

When an unlikely cast of characters sets out for a lesbian romance in Gill McKnight’s, Green-Eyed Monster, anything can happen,...

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

Mikaya Heart

Fiction

May 15, 2010 2 min read

This story spans a dozen years in the life of Carol, a fat Jewish femme lesbian living in Berkeley. She...

Tove Jansson: Out of the Closet

JoSelle Vanderhooft

Features

May 7, 2010 2 min read

I first discovered Tove Jansson’s fifth Moomin book, Moominsummer Madness, while rooting through my stepbrother’s bookshelf shortly before my 9th birthday....

‘Ash’ by Malinda Lo

Joel A. Nichols

Reviews Speculative Fiction Young Adult

April 27, 2010 2 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Malinda Lo’s Ash isn’t just a lesbian love story, a faerie tale or even only a retelling...

‘The Art of Jaime Hernandez’ by Todd Hignite; Intro by Alison Bechdel

Aaron Krach

Nonfiction

March 26, 2010 2 min read

The art of Jaime Hernandez is wonderful. It’s subtle, contemporary, and emotionally satisfying. I cannot say the same about the...

‘Hammer!’ by Barbara Hammer

Julie R. Enszer

Bio/Memoir

March 10, 2010 2 min read

“A film rests in a can until it’s screened but a book can be opened at any time by anyone...

‘Toothpick House’ by Lee Lynch

Cheri Crystal

Fiction

March 9, 2010 4 min read

In the late 70s, I studied Women in Literature in a college-level course. I feel cheated that Lee Lynch’s short...

‘More of This World or Maybe Another’ by Barb Johnson

Susan Stinson

Fiction

March 9, 2010 4 min read

Lambda Award Finalist Anyone who has been worrying about the current state of fiction or who has any questions about...

‘Lilac Mines’ by Cheryl Klein

Lara Zielinsky

Fiction

March 2, 2010 3 min read

Lilac Mines was born a boomtown in the mining period of the late 1800s. Its boon was a silver mine....

‘The Latecomer’ by Sarah Aldridge

Andrea L.T. Peterson

Fiction Romance

January 21, 2010 3 min read

When I came out, virtually overnight, at 21, I had no idea what books and movies were or weren’t out...

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

‘Nothing Pink’ by Mark Hardy

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

‘Green-Eyed Monster’ by Gill McKnight

‘Risk’ by Elana Dykewomon

Tove Jansson: Out of the Closet

‘Ash’ by Malinda Lo

‘The Art of Jaime Hernandez’ by Todd Hignite; Intro by Alison Bechdel

‘Hammer!’ by Barbara Hammer

‘Toothpick House’ by Lee Lynch

‘More of This World or Maybe Another’ by Barb Johnson

‘Lilac Mines’ by Cheryl Klein

‘The Latecomer’ by Sarah Aldridge

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