Them is a Condé Nast LGBTQI2S website starting a new monthly fiction column. They are looking for reader-submitted works. You can submit your stories and poems to their new monthly fiction and poetry column. For April, they’re looking for submissions on the theme of time. This April, leading up to this year’s Met Gala, About … Read more
Forty years ago, I was in the middle of high school. Enough time has passed that I can remember the good stuff – like the bullying from grade school was over – and forget the bad stuff – like, uh, I forget. In high school, I was a nerdy punk. My best friends were a … Read more
Few genres get people as worked up as instapoetry. You know the style: short lines, lots of white space, sentiments about healing and heartbreak, the kind of poem that fits neatly on a phone screen and gets shared thousands of times. Some readers love it because it’s accessible. Some critics hate it for the same … Read more
You can tell just by looking, Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri, isn’t for me. And that’s okay. She says it’s okay, and I say it’s okay, so it’s okay. It isn’t for me. But it could be for you. Britteney Black Rose Kapri can speak for herself. [book-info number=”1″]
Let’s get the title out of the way, since it’s what everyone ends up searching for. “Tipping the velvet” is Victorian slang for oral sex between women. Sarah Waters put it on the cover of her first novel in 1998, and it has been making library patrons blush ever since. Here’s the setup. Nancy Astley … Read more