Perhaps you have noticed, of late, that society is “collapsing.” That the incoherent babbling of the vicious and insane now dominates prime-time news and every corner of the internet…
Read MoreA Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love
It is this war, as much as that “Great” one, that “In Memoriam” explores. Winn shows us parents, siblings, friends and enemies all trying to reckon with the unspeakable, referencing gay desires only through allusions to poetry or meaningful (yet ultimately unfathomable) silences.
Read MoreThe Women's House of Detention Wins a 2023 Stonewall Book Award
The Women’s House of Detention wins the 2023 Israel Fishman Award for Nonfiction from the American Library Association!
Read MoreWriting My Community's History Helps Me Chart Our Better, Brighter Future
This is why I write queer history: Because I cannot see the future, but by clearly seeing the past, I know in my soul that the future can be different – will be different, cannot help but be different. There is no historical constant except change.
Read MoreThe Last Free Woman
The first words Nan McTeer ever said to me were, “I’m currently in hospice care. I have lung cancer, it has metastasized to my brain, but my mind is still okay! You’ve got a while to pump me for information.”
Read MoreAt the Women’s House of Detention, the Intersecting Influences of Black and Gay Liberation Movements
Afeni Shakur is today remembered for many things, including her leadership in the Black Panthers…Forgotten, though, is her history as a gay liberation radical, her presence at the Stonewall Riots, and her own bisexuality…
Read MoreThe Dystopia Has Just Arrived
The letter X is the shiftiest minx in the alphabet: a treasure, a cipher, the person we once loved; a porno, a warning, the gender marker beyond F or M; and, now, the title of a queer, near-future noir by Davey Davis. In “X” (the novel), X (the character) is a little of all these things, a “femdom nightmare” and the object of obsession for Davis’s nonbinary narrator (who spends most of the novel nameless).
Read MoreListen to me on Fresh Air with Terry Gross
It’s been a life time goal to be interviewed by Terry Gross, one of the greats of American radio, and a voice I’ve been listening to my entire life. Hear the full conversation!
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