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Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson
A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as well as the youngest person to be named a Grand Master by the Science ...
Political Animal
Named a 2024 Honorable Mention Book by the Louisiana Library Association
During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler (1930–2020) fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic ...
The LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader
Winner of the 2023 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond ...
The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books
2023 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books ...
Conversations with Diane di Prima
Diane di Prima (1934–2020) was one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century, and her career is distinguished by strong contributions to both literature and social justice. Di Prima ...
Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich (b. 1954) has been described as an autobiographical filmmaker, an experimental filmmaker, a documentary filmmaker, an independent filmmaker, a feminist filmmaker, and a lesbian filmmaker—labels ...
Mississippi Barking
Winner of a 2023 Best Book Award in the category of Animals/Pets: Narrative Nonfiction from American Book Fest
On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated ...
Conversations with Angela Davis
When Angela Davis (b. 1944) was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in 1970 and after she successfully gained acquittal in the 1972 trial that garnered national and international attention, she ...
Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture
Young adult literature featuring LGBTQ+ characters is booming. In the 1980s and 1990s, only a handful of such titles were published every year. Recently, these numbers have soared to over one hundred ...
The Nightcrawler King
While growing up in rural Indiana during World War II, William Fagaly began his first venture—collecting and selling earthworms to locals—from which he was christened with a childhood moniker. The ...