Queer Expectations by Zohar Weiman-Kelman
Weiman-Kelman Zohar | Queer Expectations | Jewish women have had a fraught relationship with history, struggling for inclusion while resisting their limited role as (re)producers of the future.
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Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder | Milk Fed | Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of
Intimate Politics by Bettina F. Aptheker
Bettina F. Aptheker | Intimate Politics | At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her family’s politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her father, historian an
Love WITH Accountability by Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Aishah Shahidah Simmons | Love WITH Accountability | 2020 Lambda Literary Award winner for best LGBTQ anthology! Despite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abu
A Rainbow Thread by Noam Sienna
Noam Sienna | A Rainbow Thread | For many queer Jews, Jewish tradition seems like a rich tapestry which at best ignores them and at worst rejects them entirely. In this groundbreaking
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman | Israel/Palestine and the Queer International | In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Pal
Sorel in Love by Barbara Sorel
Barbara Sorel | Sorel in Love | The story of a failed lesbian relationship modeled on Marcel Proust’s *Swann in Love*. Sorel was a fixture of the Greenwich Village scene since the mi
Happiness, Like Water by Chinelo Okparanta
Chinelo Okparanta | Happiness, Like Water | It is the opposition of expectations, more than opposition of cultures, which affects the characters in Happiness, Like Water, a debut collection of
Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
Elana Dykewomon | Beyond the Pale | Elana Dykewomon’s Lambda Award-winning novel Beyond the Pale announces itself to the world with an infant’s scream–‘a new voice, a tiny shofar
New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 by Shelly Oria
Shelly Oria | New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 | The stories in New York 1, Tel Aviv 0 are full of voices, some unnamed and others identified, that speak to a contemporary generation as they explore