Books
Comedian Negin Farsad Talks About "How to Make White People Laugh"
Iranian-American comedian Negin Farsad is equal parts subversive and hilarious.
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Artist Lisa Hanawalt Talks Hot Dogs, Bojack Horseman, and Why It Helps to Give Anxiety a Name
Welcome to the land of talking dogs and poop jokes. Oh and also sincere, vulnerable feelings.
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Reading "The X-Men" As a Queer Text
They're outcasts who choose their own family, explains comics scholar Ramzi Fawza.
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Want to Write a Memoir? Make Sure You Get a Therapist!
Advice from author and comedian Sara Benincasa, whose new book is called “Real Artists Have Day Jobs.”
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Not Accepting Romance Submissions: Bringing Asexual Characters to YA
An asexual author got tired of not seeing asexual characters in YA books. So she decided to write her own series.
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MariNaomi Looks In Between Cultures in Illustrated Memoir "Turning Japanese"
“It was definitely pretty naive to think that I would find some kind of belonging in a foreign country.”
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In Defense of Unlikable Women
We forgive our male heroes even when they’re flawed, aimless brutes. But if they’re female? Forget it.
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Cut & Paste: Zines About Women Musicians
From Yoko Ono and the Supremes to punk and hardcore, check out these four zines about highlighting women in music.
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Popaganda: Insider/Outsider
This one’s for the punks, poets, radicals, and outliers. We hear four stories about what life is like as an outsider, from tattoo artists confronting invisible disabilities to poet Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib on being a person of color in the punk scene. Plus, we hear from... Read more »
In "The Telling," Zoe Zolbrod Writes a Searing Memoir of Survival
In ferocious diction, Zolbrod chronicles the impact of sexual abuse and years of keeping the abuse a secret.
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