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Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction

Jamie Lee Searle Reflects on Capturing the Elusive Essence of “Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues”

By Jamie Lee Searle | August 25, 2025

Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

Visionary Ways of Caring: Five Books That Capture the Expansiveness of Queer Love

Dylin Hardcastle Recommends Alana Portero, James Baldwin, Lars Horn, and More

By Dylin Hardcastle | June 16, 2025

Against Homophobic Traditionalism: The Revelations of Writing Queer Historical Fiction

Against Homophobic Traditionalism: The Revelations of Writing Queer Historical Fiction

Phil Melanson Argues on Leonardo da Vinci, Bad Reviews, and Bucking History'’s Heteronormativity

By Phil Melanson | June 16, 2025

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

Crafting from of a Creator's Rib: Nicola Dinan on Writing Characters Based on Herself

The Author of "Disappoint Me" Reflects on Readers Seeing Her and Themselves in Fiction's Mirror

By Nicola Dinan | May 27, 2025

Emily St. James on Using Differing POVs to Write a Trans Novel

Emily St. James on Using Differing POVs to Write a Trans Novel

The Author of “Woodworking” Explores What It Means to Transition in Art and Life

By Emily St. James | March 5, 2025

Snapshot of a Self: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Walking the World in a Shifting Body and Gender

Snapshot of a Self: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich on Walking the World in a Shifting Body and Gender

From the Anthology “Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image”

By Alex Marzano-Lesnevich | February 10, 2025

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By Rebecca L. Davis | September 9, 2024

Ava Nathaniel Winter on Poetic Embodiment, Queerness in Judaism, and Finding Art in the Disturbing

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Expanding Words, Worlds, and Permissions to Be: Five Powerful Trans Books

Expanding Words, Worlds, and Permissions to Be: Five Powerful Trans Books

KB Brookins Recommends Leslie Feinberg, Akwaeke Emezi, C. Riley Snorton, and More

By KB Brookins | July 8, 2024

“Endlessly Seductive, Endlessly Terrifying.” Lucy Sante on the Idea and Reality of Transition

“Endlessly Seductive, Endlessly Terrifying.” Lucy Sante on the Idea and Reality of Transition

Considering the Long Journey Towards Embracing the True Self

By Lucy Sante | February 14, 2024

Amazon employees protested its Pride event over its sale of anti-trans books.

Amazon employees protested its Pride event over its sale of anti-trans books.

By Corinne Segal | June 2, 2022

Danica Roem on Why She Decided to Run for Office

Danica Roem on Why She Decided to Run for Office

“Life can change in an instant.”

By Danica Roem | April 27, 2022

Amazon Has a Responsibility to Stop Anti-Trans Misinformation

Amazon Has a Responsibility to Stop Anti-Trans Misinformation

Gillian Branstetter on Holding Silicon Valley Giants Accountable

By Gillian Branstetter | March 8, 2021

Margaret Atwood tweets support for transgender communities.

Margaret Atwood tweets support for transgender communities.

By Katie Yee | July 7, 2020

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Daniel Mallory Ortberg on Dorothy, Blanche, and Transition

By Daniel Mallory Ortberg | February 11, 2020

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