“Condragulations, darlings; it’s time to be fabulous”: so closes the introduction and begins "Be Drag Fabulous", a colorful book brimming with life advice to help you “follow in the heels” of some of the most renowned queens in... Read More
In Arinze Ifeakandu’s short story collection, queer Nigerian men defy cultural norms to pursue love. For the Nigerian families in these tales, traditional masculinity is of the utmost importance. Loving men, or not looking manly... Read More
Lisa Forbes writes with power and insight about recovering from trauma, incarceration, and subsequent injustices in her memoir I Can Take It from Here. Forbes served fourteen years in prison for the murder of a former lover. She spent... Read More
Jacqueline Harpman’s "I Who Have Never Known Men" is a brilliant, spare science fiction novel in which a curious girl asks what remains after everything has been stripped away. In the beginning, the girl is caged with thirty-nine women... Read More
The essays of Raquel Gutiérrez’s "Brown Neon" mix personal writing with cultural history and criticism to explore race, gender, migration, and art in the southwestern US during the 45th presidency. “On Making Butch Family: An... Read More
London’s antiquarian book world, its purveyors, and their charming, sometimes eccentric proclivities fill Marius Kociejowski’s droll memoir "A Factotum in the Book Trade". The son of a Polish father and English mother, Kociejowski... Read More
John Weir’s short story collection reflects upon being a “cisgender gay white guy” from the 1970s to the present, through decades of liberation, devastation, and gradual progress. Narrated like a memoir, the stories begin in a New... Read More
Through her lyrical memoir "This or Something Better", Elisa Stancil Levine revisits painful events from her past and endeavors to become more empathetic. Levine’s story of resilience is framed by an account of a fire in California... Read More