We the Parasites: Book Review
By Dale Corvino
We the Parasites is a deeply personal and ekphrastic poem-as-essay. It pursues its end to contaminate criticism with the queerest of methods. Dig in.
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Queen Tut: A Review
By Steve Warren
The title, Queen Tut, is essentially a spoiler. Our young hero, Nabil (Ryan Ali), doesn’t choose it as his drag name until near the end of the film.
Back to Love: The Poetry of Sjohnna McCray
By Leslie Absher
McCray’s writing focuses on his complex identities in an expansive and non-reductive way. Each a worthy subject, McCray unpacks all facets of his identity, as they are also portals into further exploration.
A New Open Access Edition of Acclaimed AIDS History
By John Manuel-Andriote
Aging without the friends and lovers we expected to know all our lives, deep sorrow lurks, always, just beyond our laughter. How has it impacted our lives in the twenty-first century?
Reconstructing the Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
By Wendy Rouse
When I began researching the book Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, people warned me that I wouldn’t find much. They weren’t wrong.
The Porousness of Queerness
Julian Carter in conversation with Jonathan David Katz about Carter’s new book, Dances of Time and Tenderness, published June 2024.
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Queering the Ballet: A Review
By Irene Javors
The exhibit specifically focuses on five of Robert Owen Lehman’s musical manuscripts that are at the very heart of the story of the Ballets Russes.
Where Families Live
By David Masello
In Stephen McCauley’s eighth novel, You Only Call When You’re in Trouble, the main figure, Tom, is a suddenly-single gay architect living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who specializes in designing “tiny houses” for high-end clients.
Anti-Memoir, Anti-Me
By Kawika Guillermo
Punk poetics is a form of musically-infused writing shaped by queer and trans authors like Patti Smith, Kathy Acker, Kai Cheng Thom. Like punk rock, punk poetics can crowd-surf us along the rhythmic tug of words, only to drop us into a circle pit and leave readers bruised and gasping for air.
On Selfhood: Young Lesbians
By Patricia Silva
On Selfhood: Young Lesbians assembles art works, ephemera, and oral histories from 36 marginalized urban lesbians, ages 18-25. Installed as a multidisciplinary exhibition grounded in personal collections and an interactive collage, On Selfhood.