"... I was talking it over with a friend who asked what I thought I would look like pregnant. Without thinking, I answered, 'like a pregnant Tintin,' and drew her a sketch of the boy reporter with hair flip, knee britches and beach ball under his sweater. For me, this image represented a best-case scenario for how I might embody pregnancy." Read More
The subtitle, “Nine Long Months Spent in Drag,” points to the core complication in Summers’ book: how does butchness interact and cope with the traditionally super-feminized experience of pregnancy? Read More
Instead of emphasizing what to do, or more specifically, what one should do sexually, these comics explore how people feel. Read More
"...you can no more separate Cool from Blackness than you can separate Hula from Hawaiians, or Yoga from Indians, or French cuisine from the French. "
Author Rebecca Walker talks with Lambda about her latest edited collection, Black Cool: A Thousand Streams of Blackness, the appropriation of Blackness, and the African cosmology of cool. Read More
A fun fact about lightning: a strike lasts for about 30 microseconds.
Lightning People starts with a similar flash. The narrator of the prologue, Joseph Guiteau, speaks in conspiratorial terms, suggesting a link between a rise in lightning-related Manhattan-area deaths and the fall of the Twin Towers. Read More
The interwoven voices of Chlöe Sevigny, Nate Lowman, Leelee Sobieski, Rufus Wainwright, Waris Ahluwalia, Kalup Linzy, Natasha Lyonne and Kirsten Dunst provide...
In 1985, I was fifteen years old; I subscribed to Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics. The first...
