"...I was caught not just in the web of her words, but in the weft of her ability to express her politics so keenly, so succinctly, with such force and breadth."
Writer Victoria A. Brownworth remembers poet, lesbian, feminist, activist, and essayist Adrienne Rich Read More
Back before I was ill myself, back when I was a writer who traveled to the story, rather than needing stories to come to me, I spent a decade covering writers who were dying.
It wasn’t a plan–I was a young reporter and I got assigned a beat that no one thought would be big in the 80s: AIDS. Read More
Trick of the Dark (Bywater Books) is something old and something new from McDermid. A stand-alone novel (not one of her series detectives appears) and thoroughly, engagingly, compellingly lesbian as well as being just as bloodily intense as her previous thrillers. Read More
Barbara Grier, publisher, activist, archivist and lesbian-feminist hellraiser, died November 10th in Tallahassee, Florida, where she had lived for years with her partner of four decades, Donna McBride. She was 78.
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Gate-keeping is both an exquisite art and a bullying tactic. The reality is, however, that editors can create writing sensations–and trends–whenever they want to. Read More
“I turn everything into activism.” Columnist, editor, award-winning journalist, cancer survivor, community leader and cat shelterer is adding a new...
As a lesbian, I came of age having my sexuality co-opted for the titillation of straight men and even women....
Lambda Award Finalist Perennial mystery-award and Lambda Award winner Ellen Hart has long been a favorite of mine. Her mysteries...
With summer just around the corner, we need beach reading. Since I was a child, beach reading has meant mysteries....
I’m a writer and I’m poor. It’s a common complaint, of course. Some writers say they are poor and really...
