Opinion Archives

February 7, 2017 5 min read

"[...] it takes hours of mental wrangling every morning to get over myself and produce, to convince myself that what I’m writing has potential and meaning and is not just the expression of a hot-headed delusion." Read More

A Book, A Box, A Pallet: Loving Pat Parker Across Generations

Julie R. Enszer

Opinion

January 29, 2017 9 min read

Parker was both an extraordinary poet on the page and a riveting performer of her work Read More

Personal Advice From Writer Diana Cage: Help! I Think My Partner is Addicted to Porn

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Opinion

January 24, 2017 10 min read

"I am afraid my boyfriend has a porn addiction." Read More

Writing Satire in the Age of Trump

Marshall Thornton

Opinion

January 17, 2017 4 min read

"What I found interesting about writing a satire contemporaneously to the events I was satirizing is that, in this case, Trump and his new administration could either match or exceed the over-the-top heightened reality I was creating." Read More

Lambda Literary Condemns Milo Yiannopoulos Book Deal

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News Opinion

January 4, 2017 1 min read

While publishers undeniably have the right to acquire and profit from any book they wish, they also bear an essential responsibility to promote civil discourse and reject hate speech that is often a precursor to violence Read More

Navigating Writing Contests and Dog Training : A Week in the Life of Writer Sassafras Lowrey

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Opinion The Banal & the Profane

December 26, 2016 10 min read

"I want to write queer books that reflect our queer lives, bodies, relationships, and the worlds we build for each other." Read More

Fingerplay and Handmaidens: The Queer and Subversive Pleasures of Reading Sarah Waters

Sophie Strohmeier

Opinion

November 30, 2016 5 min read

In Sarah Waters' writing, historical queer female desire is inferred, inserted, and re-imagined Read More

Reclaiming Queer Lives from History

Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Opinion

October 17, 2016 8 min read

Author Lucy Jane Bledsoe speaks on using fiction to explore a hidden queer history: "As I dug and wrote, dug and wrote, I wanted, most of all, to find evidence that Aunt Lucybelle had lived a happy life, albeit a short one." Read More

Living with Death: Storytelling, Trauma, and Renewal

Alan Lessik

Opinion

September 27, 2016 9 min read

Trauma creates unfinished stories that reach deep into every part of our being. As writers (and readers), we know the unrelenting power of lingering stories, stories unwritten or unread, stories without conclusions. Stories that have a visceral urgency to be finished Read More

Navigating Poetry Manuscripts and Failure: A Week in the Life of Poet Elaina Ellis

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Opinion The Banal & the Profane

September 26, 2016 5 min read

"I’m very good at being inconsistent, which sometimes leads to bad coffee. It also leads to good pancakes." 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

‘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

Navigating Rewrites and Sex Scenes: A Week in the Life of Writer Christina Cooke

A Book, A Box, A Pallet: Loving Pat Parker Across Generations

Personal Advice From Writer Diana Cage: Help! I Think My Partner is Addicted to Porn

Writing Satire in the Age of Trump

Lambda Literary Condemns Milo Yiannopoulos Book Deal

Navigating Writing Contests and Dog Training : A Week in the Life of Writer Sassafras Lowrey

Fingerplay and Handmaidens: The Queer and Subversive Pleasures of Reading Sarah Waters

Reclaiming Queer Lives from History

Living with Death: Storytelling, Trauma, and Renewal

Navigating Poetry Manuscripts and Failure: A Week in the Life of Poet Elaina Ellis

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