Every four years, the Winter Olympics rolls around and, like clockwork, I become temporarily obsessed with figure skating. This time, however, I’ve found my obsession sticking around a little longer, so I decided to reread Tillie Walden’s graphic novel Spinning, a memoir that explores the author’s years as a competitive figure skater and her decisionRead More
Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos edited by Maureen Seaton & Neil de la Flor
This poetry collection includes queer writers across multiple identities. It’s a celebration of the LGBTQ+ community even through times of hardship. With pieces that uplift our very existence to poems filled with rage and pain, this collection captures what it means to be human at the intersection of many marginalized identities. Below are just aRead More
Jewish Sapphic Lit from Manhattan’s Lower East Side
For the majority of the twentieth century, Manhattan’s Lower East Side was an enclave of affordable housing (e.g. tenements) that housed lively immigrant cultures as well as many queer folk feeling the crunch of capitalism’s unceasing demands. Today, I’m discussing three books written by or recollecting the memories of queer Jewish women who lived andRead More
A New Classic of Queer Memoirs: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H Review
I’ve been hearing great things about Hijab Butch Blues since it was published, so I’m very glad my book club chose it and I had an excuse to finally read it. Now, I’m here to join that chorus of positive reviews. This is a thought-provoking and readable memoir that follows the author from feeling outRead More
Growing Up in the Intersections: Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia Review
This memoir tells the story of growing up at multiple intersections — queer, Indian, and female — in West Virginia. But it also follows the author as she transitions into city life in Boston with a white Jewish partner. It’s not written in a linear or chronological order, so each chapter doesn’t read as aRead More
A Memoir of Anxiety, Queerness, and Figure Skating: On Top of Glass by Karina Manta Review
On Top of Glass by Karina Manta is a memoir of the author’s experiences growing up—equal parts a story about sports, queer identity, and anxiety.
A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer Review
A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby with Mary Louisa Plummer was this year’s winner of Canada Reads, and if you’re not Canadian, I can tell you that’s a big deal. It’s a TV/radio program where five “personalities” (celebrities of some kind) debate which book the country should beRead More
A Joint Memoir of Two Ex-Wives: Slayers, Every One of Us by Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs Review
In 2016, Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs starting the podcast Buffering the Vampire Slayer. Jenny was a long-time fan, and her wife Kristin was a new fan. The podcast would go on to blow up in popularity, becoming a full-time job. It supported its mostly queer fanbase through Trump’s first term and, later, theRead More
What is Your Life Story?: In the Form of a Question by Amy Schneider Review
I’ve long since cut the cord on paying for TV, and almost the only thing I miss is Jeopardy!. (I know it’s available on streaming now, but it’s not the same.) So I’ve never actually seen most of Amy Schneider’s record-setting appearances on the show—just a few clips here and there—but I certainly know ofRead More
Cosmology and Reinvention: Little Deaths all in a Row by Elizabeth Earley Review
Elizabeth Earley’s essay collection Little Deaths all in a Row (out September 16th) is a deeply vulnerable, deeply personal cosmology constructed from recollections of working hospice care, practicing Reiki, formative childhood experiences, and a myriad of sexual and romantic experiences spanning her life so far. She meshes these memories into a collage of concepts from cognitive science, biology, physics to try and address questions about intimacy,Read More
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