Given the numerous cis-written novels featuring trans characters, it’s galling that mainstream reviews consistently misrepresent or outright ignore them
Marie-Helene Bertino on how to honor the rules of storytelling while breaking the rules of physics
To take myself seriously as a writer, I had to embrace my age
There's a new social media refrain any time there's a discovery about the moon, or trees, or a strange animal: "Don't tell the poets"
And it didn't do a better job than me—but we should maybe be worried that it didn't do much worse
Figuring out how to live and write as the child of Nigerian immigrants, to the dulcet strains of Toto
It wasn't just a site to ask how babby is formed—it was also the first place I could creatively explore
Would I have realized I was gay sooner if queer books were more mainstream?
The history of women publishing our work is intertwined with the history of women attempting to control our own identities
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