secondary Archives

August 31, 2015 17 min read

Sacks made the science of what he did compelling and engaging. He humanized not just his patients, but the entire concept of people with illness Read More

‘Under The Udala Trees’ by Chinelo Okparanta

Courtney Gillette

Fiction Reviews

August 29, 2015 2 min read

Chinelo Okparanta has written a new classic of the lesbian novel, timeless in its risk and heart, immediate in its voice for the persecuted LGBT people of Nigeria Read More

‘After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality & American Religion’ by Anthony M. Petro

Theodore Kerr

Nonfiction Reviews

August 26, 2015 5 min read

So while After the Wrath of God is a book about HIV/AIDS, it is also very much a cultural history of Christianity in the US through the lens of the beginning of the AIDS crisis Read More

‘George’ by Alex Gino

Mel Morrow

Reviews Young Adult

August 25, 2015 7 min read

Alex Gino’s middle-grade debut novel George is a timely, heartfelt tale of unparalleled courage and friendship Read More

‘The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghost’ by Tiya Miles

Rachel Wexelbaum

Fiction Reviews

August 23, 2015 4 min read

Historians reveal uncomfortable truths and novelists force us to look at them. Perhaps The Cherokee Rose is a nod in support of the New South that recognizes its multicultural past, present, and future. Read More

“Bendova Like I Told Ya”: Big Freedia and the Healing Power of Contradiction

Dan Lopez

Bio/Memoir Opinion

August 23, 2015 5 min read

Ease with contradiction would appear to be a kind of puckish response to systemic disenfranchisement Read More

Cory Silverberg : On His New Book ‘Sex is a Funny Word’ and Sex Education for Kids

Theodore Kerr

Features Interviews

August 19, 2015 14 min read

"I get to present sexuality and gender in a way that I hope gives kids more options than I felt I ever had." Read More

‘Baltimore: A Love Letter’ by Dane Figueroa Edidi

Cat Fitzpatrick

Poetry

August 18, 2015 3 min read

The book develops and deploys a sophisticated analysis of structural oppression, through the related categories of racism, exploitation, colonialism and transphobia, and of the ways this plays out as personal experience Read More

A Look at LGBTQ Homeless Teens: Read an Excerpt from Ryan Berg’s ‘No House To Call My Home’

William Johnson

Excerpts News

August 17, 2015 9 min read

The book is an illuminating account of the lives of a group of New York City LGBTQ homeless youth Read More

‘Reader Meet Author’ with Writer Kevin Sessums: Send in Your Questions Today!

William Johnson

Features News

August 16, 2015 1 min read

Do you have problems with your love life? Is your social life lacking a certain zing? All of these questions and more can be answered through literature—or maybe, at least, by the people who write it 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

The Man Who Mistook Life for a Glass Wholly Full: Remembering Oliver Sacks

‘Under The Udala Trees’ by Chinelo Okparanta

‘After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality & American Religion’ by Anthony M. Petro

‘George’ by Alex Gino

‘The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghost’ by Tiya Miles

“Bendova Like I Told Ya”: Big Freedia and the Healing Power of Contradiction

Cory Silverberg : On His New Book ‘Sex is a Funny Word’ and Sex Education for Kids

‘Baltimore: A Love Letter’ by Dane Figueroa Edidi

A Look at LGBTQ Homeless Teens: Read an Excerpt from Ryan Berg’s ‘No House To Call My Home’

‘Reader Meet Author’ with Writer Kevin Sessums: Send in Your Questions Today!

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