‘Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls’ by Lindsay King-Miller
In a world struggling with identity and how to behave, with big political questions of belonging/not belonging, Ask a Queer Chick is a gentle and educational guide for all of us
‘Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy’ Edited by Damien Luxe, Heather María Ács & Sabina Ibarrola’
The essays and performance pieces in this anthology add to a collective tale while remaining essentially singular
‘Pretty Much Dead’ by Daphne Gottlieb
This collection covers multitudes—the emotional and physical landscape of San Francisco, the politics of change, nontraditional intimacies, and stories of a city well-loved and well-complicated by the passing of time
‘Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home’ by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Dirty River goes above and beyond being a story of survival; it is a femme manifesto
‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ by Bill Clegg
In this novel, fifty year old June Reid is faced with the irreconcilable deaths of every person in her family—a fate she was spared from by pure happenstance
‘I Must Be Living Twice’ by Eileen Myles
There is infrequently anything as marvelous as being taken with a writer to a place in a whirlwind—to be rushed through streets, through lives, through interactions, through memory
‘Let Me Explain You’ by Annie Liontas
Let Me Explain You is a story about relationships—between sisters, between countrymen, between people and place, between food and memory, between languages, between time and space
‘Counternarratives’ by John Keene
The remarkable thing about this kind of book–this expansive, wide-reaching book–is that the writer expects the reader to be as well-read as they are, or to at least engage with the text in an intentional way
‘Vera’s Will’ by Shelley Ettinger
“Don’t go. Let me show
‘Viral’ by Suzanne Parker
How do you sleep when
