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The book cover of This Body I Wore by Diana Goetsch features gold glitter. It's framed by two identical wavy clocks against a background with wavy lines.

In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”

Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.

Melissa Faliveno —

Jun 8, 2022

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The cover of Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay by Lars Horn features a swirly blue pattern

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“Voice of the Fish” Examines the Slippery Nature of Bodies

It’s so hard to have a body. Isn’t it?

Stef Rubino —

Jun 6, 2022

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the cover of the sex and the single woman anthology, retro pink and orange text read sex and the single woman: 24 writers reimagine helen gurley brown's cult classic

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Seven Queer Writers Reflect on Their Essays Published in “Sex and the Single Woman”

Behind the scenes with Kristen Arnett, Keah Brown, Rosemary Donahue, Josie Pickens, Vanessa Friedman, Samantha Allen, and Xoai Pham about their contributions to this reimagined cult classic.

Vanessa —

May 10, 2022

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memoir

In Sensorium: Notes For My People by Tanaïs

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Perfume Provides a Map of Memory and History in This Powerful Memoir

Tanaïs’ In Sensorium is an aesthetic, intimate labyrinth of ancestral reckoning and identity.

Em Win —

Apr 22, 2022

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interview

Photo 1: Chloe Caldwell sits on the back of a toilet with her arms up and a heating bottle on her lap. Her reflection is also visible in a mirror. Photo 2: Chloe Caldwell crouches on the ground, looking at a puddle of what appears to be blood. Photo 3: Chloe Caldwell sits on the back of a toilet with her arms up and a heating bottle on her lap. Her reflection is also visible in a mirror.

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Chloe Caldwell on First Periods, PMDD, and That Weird Blue “Blood” in Tampon Commercials

The author discusses her new memoir “The Red Zone,” which chronicles her experiences with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and provides a kaleidoscopic view of how people feel about their periods.

Analyssa —

Apr 19, 2022

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memoir

lgbt book reviews

“Burning Butch” Is the Trans Butch Memoir We’ve Always Needed

We’ve always needed books like Burning Butch out in the world reminding us that it’s possible to fight back, to overcome, and to survive despite all odds.

Stef Rubino —

Apr 11, 2022

memoir

nonfiction

Jill Gutowitz's book cover for her debut essay collection Girls Can Kiss Now is dark purple with pink font and many line drawing illustrations of cool lesbians in the background

lgbt book reviews

“Girls Can Kiss Now” and Other Realizations with Jill Gutowitz

We reviewed “Girls Can Kiss Now,” Jill Gutowitz’s debut essay collection about pop culture, the internet, growing up, and being very very gay. You’re gonna love it.

Vanessa —

Mar 8, 2022

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interview

The book cover of Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery, which features a pair of red lipsticked lips with a cigarette hanging out

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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman

“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Feb 8, 2022

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nonfiction

A composite of three repeating images of the cover of Arisa White's Who's Your Daddy

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Arisa White’s “Who’s Your Daddy” Explores the Quest for Family and Healing in a Queer, African-Diasporic Context

Who’s Your Daddy travels from the United States to Guyana to explore fatherhood and the role of masculinity, care, and caregiving in our lives. While the search for and eventual…

Julie R Enszer —

Aug 17, 2021

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book features

Talking with Alison Bechdel about Feminist Martial Arts, Lockdown, and Her New Book “The Secret to Superhuman Strength”

“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement.…

Alyssa Favreau —

May 10, 2021

memoir

nonfiction

Melissa Febos "Girlhood" book review: Melissa Febos is in a black turtleneck, next to the cover art of her book "Girlhood." The book title says the word "Girlhood" in dark magenta lettering over and over until it fades into orange, spelling her name, like a sunset. It's all against a black background.

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Power Is Searingly Political and Personal In Melissa Febos’ “Girlhood”

Secrets, silence, internalized misogyny, power, desire, and the catastrophic — yet very common — ways in which girls are harmed as they grow into women are all themes that Febos…

Luna Adler —

Apr 9, 2021

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nonfiction

Three repeating images of the cover of We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

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How New Anthology “We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival” Honors Sex Workers’ Truths

We Too maps out the underground ecosystems of sex worker survival and self-determination that are literally the building blocks of a new world order.

Aegor Ray —

Apr 5, 2021

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