Challenging norms and convention feel like an instinct for our millennium generation. Amy Tan (1952 — ) tells heartfelt stories in the first person point of view of four pairs of Chinese mothers and Chinese American daughters during and after WWII in China and the US, investigating the value of family legacy and memories within the scope of an era's history.
Read MoreWayne Miller doesn’t hesitate to probe our insecurities and hopes, but more precisely our assumptions about what we think we understand about our present America in his new book of poetry published by Milkweed Press, We the Jury.
Read MoreKirschner’s work forces us to struggle on multiple levels—with the sentences, with the stories, with our own expectations. I felt like Jacob wrestling the angel by the end of it—bruised and blessed.
Read MoreThe seam between devastation and wit runs through Parks-Ramage’s whole novel. It is the art of blurring the traumatic and the trivial that is at the heart of sophistication, the native aesthetic of many gay communities, including the cadre of New York City queens who populate the novel’s pages.
Read MoreGhost in a Black Girl’s Throat is a voice, long throttled, summoning ancestors for strength, for guidance, and for language to enable a radical articulation of self in a place of historical trauma.
Read MoreThe Boys and the Nuns follows a coterie of Boystown gays (and one adamant lesbian) and the unlikely group of nuns who befriend and defend them as Chicago considers passing the Human Rights Ordinance in the late 1980s.
Read MoreThe film is not a coming-out story, though there is a moment of revelation. Nor is it a romance, despite a pair of tender scenes. It is primarily a study of toxic masculinity and the cost of surviving it.
Read MoreJUBI ARRIOLA-HEADLEY (he/him or they/them) is a Black queer poet, storyteller, & first-generation United Statesian. We are honored to present a selection from his first book length collection of poems, Original Kink.
Read MoreOn the first night we sleep together you cup my face in your hands and say, “I see you. I really see you” and I know you’re talking about my gender and I believe you so deeply my body shakes…
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