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Cecilia Gentili’s “Faltas” Is One of the Best Memoirs I’ve Ever Read

Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist is an exciting and, at times, breathtaking addition to the canon of works about “messy trans lives.”

Stef Rubino —

Oct 5, 2022

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Enjoy Me Among My Ruins by Juniper Fitzgerald

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Juniper Fitzgerald’s Queer Memoir-in-Fragments Examines Her Identities as a Sex Worker and Mother

Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.

Stef Rubino —

Aug 31, 2022

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In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History

What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active…

Stef Rubino —

Aug 30, 2022

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Ma and Me by Putsata Reang features a gator and a tiger on the cover. The cover is repeated three times.

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Putsata Reang’s New Memoir Fills In the Gaps of Lost Family History

Putsata Reang’s memoir “Ma and Me” grapples with what it means to carry intergenerational trauma not only as an Asian American, immigrant, and refugee but also as a queer person.

himani —

Aug 18, 2022

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Knocking Myself Up by Michelle Tea features a retro photograph of Michelle Tea reclining on a coach in red lingerie, surrounded by food.

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Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents

For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.

Stef Rubino —

Aug 2, 2022

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Michelle Tea on Queer Pregnancy and Writing a Memoir in Present Tense

“I really want it to feel like you fell down a rabbit hole into this world, because that’s how I felt. That was the reality of the experience for me.”

Vanessa —

Jul 25, 2022

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Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher features watercolor abstract shapes in blue, yellow, and orange and a pair of legs

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Chris Belcher’s “Pretty Baby” Examines the Power of Shame in Our Culture

You don’t have to look very closely to see that shame is one of the foremost organizing principles of our society.

Stef Rubino —

Jul 15, 2022

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The author Chris Belcher is a white lesbian with brown shoulder length hair and bangs, and she is wearing a black shirt under a white blazer.

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Chris Belcher on “Pretty Baby,” Dungeon Dynamics, and the Expansiveness of Queer Sex

“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 11, 2022

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