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Queer and Muslim

by Rebecca Foster

The heartfelt essays and poems in "Queer and Muslim" defend religion’s compatibility with queerness. Religion can be a means of liberation rather than oppression, said Imam Muhsin Hendricks, shot dead in South Africa in 2025.... Read More

Book Review

Carry On

by Meredith Grahl Counts

The warm and informative self-help book "Carry On" brims with supportive words for queer and trans people, drawing on scholarship, stories, and advice from activist Nillin Lore and others. The book’s eight chapters cover leaving the... Read More

Book Review

Lessons in Drag

by Dontaná McPherson-Joseph

"Lessons in Drag" started as a performance by LaWhore Vagistan, the drag persona of academic Kareem Khubchandani. In it, she stages Khubchandani’s ethnographic research into accents, aunties, appropriation, and other topics connected... Read More

Book Review

Protocol Heresy

by Leah Block

On the lighter side of melancholy, "Protocol Heresy" is a near-future novel about the damage done when people are left to mourn alone. C. J. Loveman’s affecting science fiction novella "Protocol Heresy" is about the psychological... Read More

Book Review

Out There

by Kristine Morris

Lance Garland’s revealing memoir "Out There" is about how, as a gay man raised in a fundamentalist Christian home, he sought a “cure” for his gayness by becoming a Navy SEAL, but later found the courage he needed to live an open... Read More

Book Review

Queer Communion

by Rebecca Foster

The earnest, spirited essays of "Queer Communion" highlight the contradictions and unexpected blessings of squaring queerness with Christianity in Appalachia. Herein, thirteen authors muse on family ties, shifting identity, and rejecting... Read More

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