Two queer middle school girls start a religion. In stop motion. From the creators of “A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian.”

Philip Larkin wrote that ‘days are where we live’. Even in the bleakest of times, there are things you can do to improve yours. Former children’s laureate Rosen has some suggestions …

Everything is coming up rainbow in the month of June, but my bookshelves are queer 365 days a year, gurl. I feed on queer literature—the permission they give me, mostly to just be myself, to push a…

It began as a simple act of remembrance, dedicated to those who lost their lives to AIDS. Now this ever-growing patchwork of gravestone-sized panels has taken on new meaning as one of the most signifi...

Queer historical fiction is having a moment. Acclaimed recent novels have imagined queer lives in settings as varied as Puritan New England, antebellum Mississippi, and England during the first Wor…

When Carrie & Lowell was first released in 2015, I was still in grad school at NYU, trying to finish what would become my first book of poems, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. I remember listening t…

I have become a person on the pages and in the margins of books. In nearly two decades of reckoning with my reading in writing, it has been my ongoing lamentation to see works of enduring beauty and substance perish out of print — because the ideas they conduct are not the easiest and most marketable, because amid a culture that reduces literature to a commodity and binds readers in a moral paradox they ask us to think more widely and feel more deeply. Having always believed that the most valiant way to complain is to create, I have joined… read article

The Canadian singer-songwriter is releasing an album about his transition. Trump’s ‘dehumanizing’ new passport rules mean he won’t perform it for US fans

Q: What is it like to be a Palestinian writer at this time? A: Once, I had no name. I rose each day as if it were the first morning on earth. I moved sturdy and permeable, translucent with a wonder…

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Knitting and embroidery are laden with stereotypes of domestic femininity – and the subversive potential for protest

Quilt, made in 1980s to raise awareness, to be shown as US cuts raise fears of Aids resurgence in some countries A giant quilt made to remember people who died of Aids in Britain is to be publicly displayed later this year at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London. The UK Aids Memorial Quilt was created in the 1980s at the height of the epidemic to raise awareness of the disease and humanise the people who died from it. By the end of 2011, 20,335 people diagnosed with HIV had died in the UK. Continue reading...

Rather than seek to define our surroundings, we must experience them through our senses . . .” When we fall in love, and even if we stay in love, we can already taste the lonely void that the end o…

When Bernadette Russell decided to perform one good deed every day for a year, it made a difference to the world around her but also had a big impact on her own life

The novelist was just 12 when the ex-busker stunned a mammoth crowd at the Free Nelson Mandela concert – and sent everyone racing to Woolworths for her astonishing debut album. Its simple, honest, perfect songs of protest have mesmerised the writer ever since