“Many of us discovered our first lesbian pleasures through the cinema—I certainly did.”… read more

Perry is as committed to the unknown as she is to dutiful research… read more

“It’s a pleasure to see Justin Torres’ quiet wisdom brought to visual life.”… read more

The New Woman is an exciting breakthrough for scholars and armchair readers alike who are seeking to put the femme in feminist studies and queer theory… read more

In Ana Simo’s darkly funny, dystopian debut novel, not only was America never great; it might’ve never existed to begin with… read more

The photos that fill nearly all of #girlgaze’s 272 pages were selected from over 750,000 images that were submitted via Instagram using the project’s eponymous hashtag… read more

Like its main character, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl takes on different forms. The book cycles between being a queer Bildungsroman and a vivid Gen-X period piece … read more

“There is a tendency to simplify things [….] The truth is in the contradiction and juxtaposition.”… read more

In 2005, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson and E. Patrick Johnson edited Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. BQS was a first of its kind text, seeking to break ground and bread between queer studies and Black studies; it was a success. With its focus on academic intersectionality, the politics of representation, queer studies pedagogy, and Black… read more

Schulman observes the ways in which micro and macro instances of conflict can escalate in devastating directions… read more