*Lesbian Archives

October 7, 2017 7 min read

"More often than not, I discover while writing about the shame-inducing events I’ve experienced that the personal inadequacies I have are more universal than I originally realized." Read More

‘Her Body and Other Parties’ by Carmen Maria Machado

Alyssa Greene

Speculative Fiction

October 2, 2017 2 min read

Machado remixes strands of myth, horror, and pop culture and gives us something uniquely her own Read More

‘Wild Mountain’ by Nancy Hayes Kilgore

Chelsea Catherine

Fiction

September 26, 2017 3 min read

Wild Mountain is a quiet, beautiful novel full of sensuous descriptions of rural Vermont and the lives of those who reside there Read More

‘Lena’ by Cassie Pruyn

July Westhale

Reviews

September 13, 2017 1 min read

Pruyn creates powerful poems that beautifully explore themes of love and loss. Read More

‘Enfermario’ by Gabriela Torres Olivares

Miriam Karraker

Fiction

August 31, 2017 3 min read

Olivares’ narratives theorize how we can exist and act in the world given how we conceptualize the uneasy state of our bodies Read More

‘Spinning’ by Tillie Walden

Cathy Camper

Bio/Memoir

August 23, 2017 3 min read

In the graphic novel Spinning, Tillie Walden recounts the years she spent in competitive figure skating, joining other adolescent accounts that counter the myth that there’s only value in winning Read More

‘Moment of Weakness’ by KG MacGregor

Anna Furtado

Reviews

August 21, 2017 2 min read

Moment of Weakness begins at what appears to be a tragic end to a once idyllic relationship between Suzann “Zann” Redecker, a wounded warrior, and Marleigh Anderhall, a local reporter. However, that’s actually the start of this fascinating tale Read More

‘The Tower of the Antilles’ by Achy Obejas

Anne Charles

Reviews

August 17, 2017 3 min read

Cuba’s distinctive history and culture shape The Tower of Antilles with the unique negotiations with identity, memory and the idea of home that complicate the lives of the residents, exiles, and expatriates alike. Read More

‘Heart Stop’ by Radclyffe

Anna Furtado

Fiction

August 8, 2017 2 min read

Part romance, part murder mystery, part mobster story, Heart Stop is a thrilling read Read More

‘We Are Never Meeting in Real Life’ by Samantha Irby

Gena Hymowech

Reviews

August 6, 2017 3 min read

In We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, Samantha Irby uses a killer sense of humor to show you that someone else is having as tough a time of it as you are, maybe even tougher 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

Matthew Gallaway: On His New Novel and Finding a Different Kind of Faith

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

Playwright Kati Schwartz on the Power of Laughing at Her Own Misery

‘Her Body and Other Parties’ by Carmen Maria Machado

‘Wild Mountain’ by Nancy Hayes Kilgore

‘Lena’ by Cassie Pruyn

‘Enfermario’ by Gabriela Torres Olivares

‘Spinning’ by Tillie Walden

‘Moment of Weakness’ by KG MacGregor

‘The Tower of the Antilles’ by Achy Obejas

‘Heart Stop’ by Radclyffe

‘We Are Never Meeting in Real Life’ by Samantha Irby

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