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Even After We Leave it, Home Stays With Us

Growing up in rural Guilford County, North Carolina, poet and essayist Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers dreamed of escaping, of one day leaving behind the “cow-dotted” fields of her hometown and arriving…

Stef Rubino —

Sep 16, 2024

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Maggie Nelson’s New Book Urges Us To Revel In the Art We Love

‘Like Love’ provides a creative and intellectual road map guiding us through many of Nelson’s influences, curiosities, and obsessions.

Stef Rubino —

Apr 29, 2024

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The Call Is Coming From Inside the House by Allyson McOuat

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Queer Feminist Essay Collection Explores Horrors of Motherhood

The Call Is Coming From Inside The House is an ideal read for anyone interested in any one of its disparate themes: horror movies, queer parenthood, mental health, bisexuality, true…

Casey —

Apr 18, 2024

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Jenn Shapland’s “Thin Skin” Will Make You Believe Another Life Is Possible

Shapland never purports to have all of the answers here, and why would she?

Stef Rubino —

Aug 17, 2023

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EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life

In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.

Jenn Shapland —

Aug 15, 2023

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Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex

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“Working It” Says the Quiet Parts Out Loud About Sex Work

Before I was a sex worker, I was a proud sex worker ally.

Raechel Anne Jolie —

Jul 3, 2023

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In Challenging, Complex Essays, “Unsafe Words” Queers the #MeToo Movement

Multiple of these essays ask how we can make queer spaces safer, especially for our most vulnerable community members, while also not becoming our own police.

Nico —

Feb 21, 2023

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Wanting: Women Writing About Desire, edited by Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters, including essays by Kristen Arnett, Aracelis Girmay, Sonora Jha, Torrey Peters, Larissa Pham, and Lisa Taddeo

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The Essays in “Wanting” Show the Power of Vulnerability

Although I have many of them at any given time, I don’t usually speak my desires out loud.

Stef Rubino —

Feb 17, 2023

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A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, edited by Erin Sharkey, featuring a Black girl in an open field holding a plate in outstretched arms

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“A Darker Wilderness” Carves a Space for Blackness in Nature

I held these words close as I walked through my neighborhood in a town named after perhaps the most famous colonizer in the Americas.

shea wesley martin —

Feb 14, 2023

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It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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“It Came From the Closet” Gave Me New Appreciation for the Horror Genre

Because we’re so frequently othered, many LGBTQ+ people find ourselves in horror film monsters.

Abbie Jones —

Oct 4, 2022

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Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves from Catapult Books features a bunch of colorful illustrated bodies

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“Body Language” Anthology Offers Invitation To Reckon With Our Messy Bits

Body Language — a new anthology from Catapult — is one of the best essay collections I’ve read in a long time.

shea wesley martin —

Aug 9, 2022

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The cover of Brown Neon: Essays by Raquel Gutiérrez features the title and author name in blue neon sign lettering against a landscape background.

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“Brown Neon” Is a Tribute to the Power of Art and Community in the American Southwest

Over the course of these ten essays, Raquel Gutiérrez skillfully maps the realities, struggles, and joys of queer, Latinx, artistic life in the Southwest U.S.

Stef Rubino —

Jun 29, 2022