What about the children?
By T.C. Kraven
“What about the children?” As an adult, I’ve heard this question countless times. It’s been asked at any moment when opponents of equal rights sought to cling to their versions of normalcy.
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Blog Posts
The Troubles: Northern Ireland Punk
By Anne Marie Molloy
From the late 1960s until a peace agreement was reached in 1998, Northern Ireland—particularly its capital, Belfast—was devastated by bitter sectarian violence dubbed “The Troubles.”
Soundscapes of Freedom in Lagos, Nigeria
By Demilade Phillips
In the last few years, many raves have been quietly popping up through Lagos, Nigeria’s unofficial capital, and the epicenter of Africa’s financial dealings.
Those Who Are Saved
By Iryn Tushabe
I didn’t have a boyfriend, so pregnancy checks didn’t bother me. Indeed, they were an opportunity to do the lord’s work; I was omulokole, a saved person.
To Boldly Go Homo: An Exhibit Review
By Mark Hayward
In what other city could a pioneering rocket scientist lead occult rituals, a satanic Hollywood studio secretary publish a communist musicologist forever transform queer identity?
Queering Loneliness: A Review of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer
By Brian Alessandro
Like the novel by William S. Burroughs on which it is based, Luca Guadagnino’s film adaptation of Queer is less about homosexuality than about the agonies and ecstasies of being a soul trapped in an aging, alienated body.
The Closet is My Country
By Damisola Sulaiman
How do you accept that your closet is a country, that the place that made you into the person you are, is where you can’t be yourself?
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.
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.
On Writing Black Queer Fiction
By Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
As a writer, my characters’ queerness is always as central to their stories as their Blackness, their gender, or their size. For me, this is what it means to create full characters: they have multiple facets, live in multiple worlds, and it’s the precise alchemy of such multiplicity that defines them.