Jeffra’s writing is delicate and deliberate when it comes to depicting despair….it inspires a sense of gratitude and reverence, as well as an appreciation for beauty and tenderness, even in the midst of profound sorrow…. read more

“I’m interested in what it looks like to stand tall in difficult feelings: embarrassment, love, anger, desire, cowardice, even joy which can be difficult too.”… read more

Filled with tenderness and hope, Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World is a love letter to queer kids everywhere… read more

Jeanne Thornton’s book of short stories, The Black Emerald, is fantastic, meaning both that it’s very good, and also that it’s really weird… read more

“Punk and riot grrrl influenced me hugely, not just musically but politically and aesthetically as well, and my friends too.”… read more

The characters in Anna-Marie McLemore’s new fantasy novel are brilliant, beautiful, and powerful, bound by their love for each other, and their capacity to love others—regardless of gender or class…. read more

Barrie Jean Borich’s Apocalypse, Darling is a lyrical memoir that reads like a long-form narrative poem, wrought with long, sweeping sentences and dream-like imagery… read more

Queerly Loving (Volume 1) is a short story collection that gives happy endings to a range of LGBTQA+ characters, by authors who themselves are from across the LGBTQA+ spectrum… read more

Reintegration is many things at once—beautiful, brilliant, thrilling, and terrifying.It’s also beautifully and unabashedly queer, delivering characters who fight to be themselves in a world where they aren’t welcome… read more

Any Other Way charts a history of queerness in Toronto that is like the city itself: wildly diverse, erratic, and often contradictory… read more