Trans Archives

November 17, 2014 1 min read

Leslie Feinberg, a pioneering transgender activist and writer of the seminal novel Stone Butch Blues, has died. Feinberg, 65, died of...

‘The Lightkeeper’s Wife’ by Sarah Anne Johnson

Julie Harthill Clayton

Fiction Reviews

November 2, 2014 1 min read

Mid-19th century Cape Cod is no place for a woman alone. But Hannah Snow has no choice. When her husband,...

‘Make Love to Rage’ by Morgan Robyn Collado

Mitch Kellaway

Features Poetry

October 21, 2014 2 min read

Rage / Making / Love. Trans, working-class, femme Columbian-Puerto Rican poet Morgan Robyn Collado splits her debut collection, Make Love...

‘Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives’ by Nia King

Cathy Camper

Nonfiction

September 22, 2014 3 min read

In my former review of Nia King’s work, I mentioned her media presence, via her website, tumblr, and her podcasts...

How Everett Maroon Turned Me Into an Unintentional YA Fan

Cooper Lee Bombardier

Interviews Young Adult

September 16, 2014 12 min read

I imagine it is bad form to start off talking about a book by bad-mouthing its genre, but I felt...

‘Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man’ by Thomas Page McBee

Mitch Kellaway

Bio/Memoir Reviews

September 15, 2014 4 min read

Thomas Page McBee’s Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man is not a memoir—though, in...

Ariel Schrag: On Her New Novel ‘Adam,’ Writing for the ‘L Word,’ and Trans Inclusiveness

Heather Seggel

Features Interviews

July 30, 2014 10 min read

"The premise of the novel is supposed to be provocative. It’s supposed to ignite feelings of 'Oooh that’s problematic.'" Read More

‘Gephyromania’ by TC Tolbert

Mitch Kellaway

Poetry Reviews

July 29, 2014 4 min read

"Taken as a whole, the pulse behind Gephyromania is that of a seeker who finds meaning not in what is found, but in the act itself." Read More

Looking at ‘In Cold Blood’: Violence, Masculinity, and Compassion

Thomas Page McBee

Features Opinion

July 26, 2014 4 min read

"In Cold Blood taught me that I could dive into my shadows, face my would-be killer, plumb my heart for the kind of compassion that the worst kind of men never gave me [...]" Read More

‘A Safe Girl to Love’ by Casey Plett

Mitch Kellaway

Fiction Reviews

July 20, 2014 4 min read

"Stumbling towards love--from others, from the self--is a messy affair for the twenty-something not-children yet not-quite-adults of Plett's worlds." 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

Anna Meadows, “Do Not Publish Until Author Dead or Married”

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

Transgender Pioneer, Activist, and Author Leslie Feinberg, 65, Has Died

‘The Lightkeeper’s Wife’ by Sarah Anne Johnson

‘Make Love to Rage’ by Morgan Robyn Collado

‘Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives’ by Nia King

How Everett Maroon Turned Me Into an Unintentional YA Fan

‘Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man’ by Thomas Page McBee

Ariel Schrag: On Her New Novel ‘Adam,’ Writing for the ‘L Word,’ and Trans Inclusiveness

‘Gephyromania’ by TC Tolbert

Looking at ‘In Cold Blood’: Violence, Masculinity, and Compassion

‘A Safe Girl to Love’ by Casey Plett

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