Dysphoria by Karelia Stetz-Waters Artema Press, 2013, 350 pp Dysphoria. On its own, the word means simply the state of feeling unwell. It is a loaded term, however, especially in the queer community. Trans*-folk use the word to describe the feeling of incongruity between how the body exists and how the brain expects the body toRead More
Karelia Stetz-Waters reviews Looking Through Windows by Caren Werlinger
Reading romance novels is bad for you. I read that in graduate school. Actually, I read a whole book to that effect. (Don’t worry. I love the genre. This isn’t a polemic.) To be fair, the study I read looked at heterosexual women. Nonetheless, one can draw some comparisons. The classic romance novel pairs twoRead More
Karelia Stetz-Waters reviews Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
I was somewhat disappointed to learn that my all-time favorite lesbian writer had released a new memoir. That’s not my usual reaction to book releases. It’s just that Jeanette Winterson’s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal promised to cover approximately the same time period as her first memoir, Oranges Are Not the OnlyRead More
Karelia Stetz-Waters reviews And Playing the Role of Herself by K. E. Lane
Romance is my favorite genre. It’s my comfort food. And, like bread pudding, romances are easy to find and rarely awful. The catch is it’s hard to find ones that are noticeably better than the rest. It’s harder still to find ones that are really great. In the world of lesbian romance, I’d give AndRead More