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Another Appalachia: Neema Avashia Confronts Growing Up Indian and Queer in West Virginia

A Brown woman with glasses and short haircut is pictured smiling next to a small image of the book cover for her memoir, "Another Appalachia."
by Ren Jender
March 3, 2022 at 4:48pm
We talked to “Another Appalachia” author Neema Avashia about anti-queer and anti-trans legislation, coping with loss, and how people are more than the politics of their communities.
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This TikTokker Has Your Next Queer Rom Com Reading Rec

by Sarah Stark
February 25, 2022 at 9:43am
“It’s Gay and It Slaps”  Read more »
Grace Lavery, a brunette woman with glasses and a tattooed arm wears black and reclines horizontally on her back across the image. To the left is an image of her book, Please Miss. The book cover is white with red lips sprouting a cigarette under title.

Fighting TERFs, Vomiting, and Writing Bathos: Grace Lavery on Her Eccentric, Exciting Memoir

by Daniel Lavery
February 22, 2022 at 1:59pm
“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.” Read more »
A digital collage with bright purple, blue, green, and yellow palm leaves, and in the center the book cover for High Risk Homosexual. The cover features the same multi-colored palm leaves.

In “High-Risk Homosexual,” Living Authentically Is Bittersweet

by Eva Recinos
February 11, 2022 at 1:54pm
High-Risk Homosexual pulls apart the neat narratives we often see about what it means to come out—and to pursue your creative dreams.  Read more »
A Black man wearing a pink shirt and black blazer is pictured next to the book cover for "And the Category Is..." Both images are on a bright pink background.

In Vogue: Ricky Tucker's Essential Read on Ballroom Culture

by Dr. Jon Paul
January 31, 2022 at 2:08pm
Ricky Tucker’s “And the Category Is…” offers a careful and thoughtful examination of ballroom culture. Read more »
Keanu Reeves, as Neo in The Matrix Resurrection, in a long black coat and inside of a warehouse.

Please, Take the Blue Pill: "The Matrix Resurrections" Review

by Grace Lavery
December 22, 2021 at 3:45pm
Down the rabbit hole goes Thomas Anderson and so, therefore, must we, into “The Matrix Resurrections.” Read more »
A black and white portrait of Stephen Sondheim overlaying a collage of his playbills, including “Company,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Sunday in the Park with George” and more

Being Alive: How Sondheim Made Space for Queer and Trans People

by Elly Belle
December 13, 2021 at 3:53pm
Stephen Sondheim reminded queer and trans people that they can be complicated and messy, but still worthy of love. Read more »
Halsey dressed in a black crown, veil, and ornate gown with bold shoulders that leak upwards in watercolor.

Personal Parallels: Halsey’s Gothic Film Is a Gendered Journey Through Pregnancy

by Rachel Saywitz
November 9, 2021 at 3:46pm
“I am not a woman, I’m a god / I am not a martyr, I’m a problem.” Read more »
Julie Rodgers, a thin, white woman with her blond hair pulled into a ponytail and wearing a light-blue collared shirt, looks down in a church pew in Pray Away

False Hope: Can Anyone Stop Religious Conversion Camps?

by Reece Sisto
August 18, 2021 at 1:51pm
Pray Away cracks open the duality of “belonging.” Read more »

Making Waves: In “Luca” and “Wolfwalkers,” Monstrousness Is a Queer Metaphor

by Marina Watanabe
July 28, 2021 at 9:00am
While the two films feature protagonists’ attempts to assimilate into human culture, they also ultimately do so under the threat of violence and discrimination. Read more »
Illustration of Billy Porter, a thin, Black man, against a marble swirled background wearing a tiara with jewels around his eyes

Godmothers of Invention: The Enduring Power of the Cinderella Story

by Noa Azulai
July 16, 2021 at 9:00am
There is no tale of Cinderella without her Fairy Godmother. Read more »

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