Akwaeke Emezi’s "The Death of Vivek Oji" presents queerness as a personal, liminal space completely free of heteronormativity
I wanted to learn about Black oppression, only to discover my own erasure
What Andre Aciman, Jasmine Guillory, and Sally Rooney have to teach us about finding freedom in a good undefinable romantic relationship
In reading colorblind to my children, I erased Peter’s Blackness from the story
"Beautiful World, Where Are You" wants the contemporary novel to be more relevant. Does it rise to challenge?
The unmarried women of Barbra Pym's 1950s novels are still teaching me lessons today
Alina Starkov is the opposite of Hermione Granger and Katniss Everdeen, and that’s a good thing
It took reading Patrick Califia’s “A Dash of Vanilla” for me to understand that I felt coerced into “normal” lesbian sex
I read them before anything else because they tell the story behind the story
Thank You!