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Horrorscopes: What Queer Horror Film Should You Watch This Month, Based on Your Sign

Horoscopes can be a useful way of understanding ourselves and working toward personal growth; HORRORscopes can let us avoid that…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Oct 7, 2025

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Fire In The Belly: Letter From The Editor

“I’m a passionate person” I might write in a dating profile, which sounds harmless and doesn’t touch the deep smolder I experience daily. We’re bringing you stories in this issue…

Kamala Puligandla

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May 5, 2020

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For Queers, by Queers, in Strait-Laced Boston

There’s a staunch Puritanical and traditionalist bent that persists in New England, now resulting less in atrocities like the perennially invoked Salem Witch Trials and more in people being doggedly…

Chaya Rusk

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Mar 31, 2020

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Enduring “Straight Time” to Build Our Own Radical Queer Utopia

The world tells us that we should not want anything beyond what is here and now, right in front of us, but what’s in front of us is violent and…

Nik Valdez

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Mar 31, 2020

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A Better World: Transformative Justice and the Apocalypse

As COVID-19 brings the world as we know it to and end, queer, trans and marginalized communities need to transformative justice more than ever. But what does it mean to…

Kai Cheng

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Mar 30, 2020

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Fat Liberation Is the Future

It’s time we stopped telling people to “love themselves” and started demanding fat liberation at every level, in every way. Here’s how we liberate ourselves from the tyranny of diet…

Samantha Puc

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Mar 26, 2020

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Roundtable: The Undocumented Activists Organizing a Strike and Building a New World

In a country that hates immigrants, every day immigrants are on the front line of imagining and enacting another world: One where they can safely live with basic dignity, respect,…

Christine Miranda

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Mar 24, 2020

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Making Lovers Of Friends: My Bisexual Account Of Women Who Don’t Belong to Me

When it comes to my queer desire, my favorite feeling is a juicy lack — I don’t have the person or thing I want and that tastes like salted caramel…

Vickie Vertiz

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Mar 17, 2020

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5 QPOC Visionary Fiction Projects to Look Out for in the Not-So-Distant Future

Our ability to conceive of ourselves surviving and thriving into the future is a crucial part of manifesting it as a lived reality.

Kamee Abrahamian

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Mar 16, 2020

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