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Kowalski: A Review
By Mike Dressel
This being a memory play, in an appropriate nod to the playwright in question, we’re transported back thirty years prior to Williams’ clapboard beach house in Provincetown…
Cercle Hermaphroditos
By Eamon Schlotterback
June was invited to join the Cercle Hermaphroditos, an organization which its leader explained was founded “to defend against the world’s bitter persecution” of transfeminine people.
The State of LGBTQ Rights
PART III by Walter Holland
This collection of excerpts from Walter Holland, John Boyce, and John McCurdy offers insight into the past and present threats to LGBTQ rights and dignity.
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The Cost of Bottom Surgery
By Emmitt Barnes
For those uninitiated, phalloplasty is the kind of bottom surgery which aims to give the patient a life size, workable, and realistic penis.
Processing Time
By Arina Boyko
It’s been 205 days since I last saw my wife and our two dogs. Another thing I try to avoid is counting the days. Sometimes numbers ease you, but not when the number is growing…
Small Town, Big Secret
By Eduardo Martínez-Leyva
I began playing with language, tearing words apart, and putting them back together. The flexibility and wistfulness of poetry allowed me to come to terms with myself, my surroundings…
Book Reviews
A ‘Quantum Biography’ of Audre Lorde
A photograph of Lorde in front of a blackboard on which is written “Women are powerful and dangerous” has become a familiar, widely shared image. In response to attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and women’s and LGBT rights, the words of the self-described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” have lately gone viral, turning her into an online superstar.
If They Could See Me Now
When Ford picked up stakes and went to New York or Paris for months at a time, he brought Indra with him. When he moved into another house in Chania, Crete, he brought Indra, who again took over as houseman and companion—though never as lover. This was in the mid-1970s, and both Paris and Manhattan were enjoying what may have been the last artistic flowering of bohemia.
A Pioneer’s Progress
The crises faced by Cather’s characters seem remarkably similar to those of our own times. If all you know of her work is the novels you read in high school, these essays might motivate you to read the rest of her œuvre. Rereading her novels, I’m struck by how relevant they remain, and how women like Lena, Ántonia, Thea, Lucy, and Alexandra face many of the same struggles as do women today.
Beautiful Corpses
A SINEWY MAN stands erect with a serene gaze. He has a massive book propped against his muscular left thigh and he appears to have a toga draped around his body. As I approach this statue (standing in a corner of the chapel of the University of Milan), I realize that he is not just well-defined. Those are actually his muscles and that’s his own skin he’s bearing.
Beyond Identity Politics
Vaid writes incisively and critically about identity-based movements and the need to form coalitions and find common purpose with other minorities that society has left and continues to leave behind. Without such coalition-building, she argues, identity-based politics “does not lead to liberatory outcomes.”
He Never Forgets a Face, or a Body
IT HAS BEEN SAID that the three stages of sex are feel, squeal, and congeal. All are abundantly present in Edmund White’s new collection of mini-memoirs. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir rises to the challenge of its subtitle by being both an enjoyable memoir and a lively book about sex, which the author discusses in a clear, open way that’s refreshing, and necessary, in a society as puritanical as our own.