Naisargi N. Dave | Queer Activism in India | Over the last two decades in India, the silence around queerness has been decisively broken. Today, there are queer groups, writers, activists, academ
Elizabeth Bear | Carnival | In Old Earth’s clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since
Tig Notaro | I’m Just a Person | In the span of four months in 2012, Tig Notaro was hospitalized for a debilitating intestinal disease called C-diff, her mother unexpectedly died, she
Pat Califia | Forbidden Passages | This literate, sexy, and politically provocative collection of writings featurs excerpts from some of the most significant publications seized at the
Abbe Smith | Case of a Lifetime | A recent study estimates that thousands of innocent people are wrongfully imprisoned each year in the United States. Some are exonerated through DNA e
Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte | Black Marks | ‘In this wonderfully intelligent novel, Kirsten Dinnall Hoyte explores a young woman’s complicated struggle to come to terms with her fractured past.
Catherine Jones | Wonder Girls | In 1928, Ida Gaze swims the Bristol Channel with the help of her best friend Freda. In 1937, on the instructions of the matron, a nurse at a maternity
Helga Sandburg | The Wheel of Earth | Roughly a third of a long novel of Midwestern rural life deals with the lengthy attachment between Frankie Gaddy and an older woman, Genevieve
Vin Packer | Spring Fire | Her silky black hair. Her low-cut gown. Her sparkling sorority pin. It’s autumn rush in the Tri Epsilon house, and the new pledge, Susan Mitchell-‘Mit