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4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now
Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: Sept. 17

By Sarah Taher
Not again: J.K. Rowling’s new book is super transphobic
Culture

Not again: J.K. Rowling’s new book is super transphobic

“Troubled Blood” features a cis male serial killer who murders cis women while dressed as a woman

By Erica Lenti
Eva Crocker’s queer, Canadian coming of age
Books

Eva Crocker’s queer, Canadian coming of age

In her debut novel, the Giller Prize-longlisted author explores the hypervisibility and policing of queerness—loosely based on her own experiences

By Ziya Jones
4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now
Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read listen to or look at: Sept. 10

By Sarah Taher
4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now
Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: August 27

By Gordon Bowness
4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now
Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: August 27

By Sarah Taher
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Loneliness and outrage in the age of Grindr
Books

Loneliness and outrage in the age of Grindr

In an essay from his new memoir, Billy-Ray Belcourt ruminates on sex, intimacy and hook-up apps

By Billy-Ray Belcourt
4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now
Arts

4 LGBTQ2 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to or look at: August 13

By Sarah Taher
Welcome to Tomboyland
Culture

Welcome to Tomboyland

In her debut essay collection, Melissa Faliveno reflects on gender and queerness growing up in working-class Wisconsin

By Melissa Faliveno
4 happenings to wind you up or down right now
Arts

4 happenings to wind you up or down right now

What to watch, read, listen to and look at: July 30

By Sarah Taher
4 happenings to wind you up or wind down with now
Arts

4 happenings to wind you up or wind down with now

What to watch, read, listen to and look at: July 16

By Sarah Taher
How femme memoirs challenge queer stereotypes about rural living
Books

How femme memoirs challenge queer stereotypes about rural living

Working-class country living isn’t always bad for queer folks. Five authors tackle femme identity and queerness outside city limits

By Andi Schwartz
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4 things to wind you up or wind down with this week
Arts

4 things to wind you up or wind down with this week

What to watch, read, listen to and look at: July 9

By Sarah Taher
4 things to wind you up or help you wind down this week
Arts

4 things to wind you up or help you wind down this week

What to watch, read, listen to and look at: July 2

By Sarah Taher
Inhabiting the in-between with Zaina Arafat
Books

Inhabiting the in-between with Zaina Arafat

The Palestinian-American author on her debut novel, ‘You Exist Too Much’

By Nour Abi-Nakhoul
Harry Potter and the order of the deal-breakers
Culture

Harry Potter and the order of the deal-breakers

Most of us know what it’s like to consume art that’s problematic, then make a degree of peace with it—or not

By Casey Plett
I dreamt of a march for Black queer liberation
Power

I dreamt of a march for Black queer liberation

The street awoke with the clang of our resilience ricocheting off the blank stares and raised eyebrows: They stared, we marched, they stared, we marched

By Cicely-Belle Blain
Writing complicated trans characters with John Elizabeth Stintzi
Books

Writing complicated trans characters with John Elizabeth Stintzi

The award-winning author on finding comfort in uncertainty, not-so-straightforward identities and their new novel, ‘Vanishing Monuments’

By Nour Abi-Nakhoul
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