Queer and trans folk have been doing wonderfully awful things to Barbie since the doll’s creation
Kerry Manders
Kerry Manders (she/her) is a Toronto-based writer, editor and photographer. She contributes to The New York Times, T Magazine, The Advocate and Aperture, among other publications, where she explores various aspects of queerness, mourning and photography. Her first collaborative chapbook (with Brandy Ryan), After Pulse, was published by knife І fork І book (2019) and her second (with Tom Cull), Keep Your Distance, by Collusion Books (2021). She is currently writing a mourning memoir.
The soft masculinity of ‘Top Gun’ is underappreciated lesbian joy
As “Top Gun: Maverick” roars into the Oscars, its predecessor’s model of masculine bonding is worth looking back on
Jamie Diaz, in prison for almost 30 years and an artist almost 50, at last publishes her first comic book
Jamie Diaz discovered her queerness and artistry at the same time—probably not a coincidence