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Fighting TERFs, Vomiting, and Writing Bathos: Grace Lavery on Her Eccentric, Exciting Memoir
“Someone I used to live with described my writing process as watching someone vomit compulsively for hours at a time,” says Grace Lavery, author of “Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis.”
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In “High-Risk Homosexual,” Living Authentically Is Bittersweet
High-Risk Homosexual pulls apart the neat narratives we often see about what it means to come out—and to pursue your creative dreams.
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In Vogue: Ricky Tucker's Essential Read on Ballroom Culture
Ricky Tucker’s “And the Category Is…” offers a careful and thoughtful examination of ballroom culture.
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Please, Take the Blue Pill: "The Matrix Resurrections" Review
Down the rabbit hole goes Thomas Anderson and so, therefore, must we, into “The Matrix Resurrections.”
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Being Alive: How Sondheim Made Space for Queer and Trans People
Stephen Sondheim reminded queer and trans people that they can be complicated and messy, but still worthy of love.
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Personal Parallels: Halsey’s Gothic Film Is a Gendered Journey Through Pregnancy
“I am not a woman, I’m a god / I am not a martyr, I’m a problem.”
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False Hope: Can Anyone Stop Religious Conversion Camps?
Pray Away cracks open the duality of “belonging.”
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Making Waves: In “Luca” and “Wolfwalkers,” Monstrousness Is a Queer Metaphor
While the two films feature protagonists’ attempts to assimilate into human culture, they also ultimately do so under the threat of violence and discrimination.
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Godmothers of Invention: The Enduring Power of the Cinderella Story
There is no tale of Cinderella without her Fairy Godmother.
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