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After several grueling hours of protesting against systemic injustice (no one can prepare you for long hours on your feet, long hours screaming for recognition of...

Encountering racism from other gay men when I came out caused me to interrogate my own identity, questioning what I’m able to become if a lot...

Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time ignoring bestseller lists and big imprints in favour of small press and independent publishers, trying to find some...

My therapist’s suggestion made evident my problem: I needed to learn about acceptance. When my therapist recommended radical acceptance to me, I gave her a look...

An English teacher I know could not show the musical Man of La Mancha because it had a prostitute in it. This teacher worked at a...

As Dana Staves wrote in “This was Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq’s Kitab al-Tabikh (Book of Dishes). It was first translated by A.J. Arberry in 1939, and then later...

For me 5th grade is one of those precipice years, a time when books for 5th graders are so important. You’re about to move from elementary...

Like any devoted armchair sleuth, I love a good mystery novel that will have me combing back through its chapters for missed clues. Weighing witness credibility,...

It’s not very often that your own past cultural context becomes a topic of debate on national radio, but the recent television adaptation of Sally Rooney’s...

LAMBDA Award-winning author Alex Sanchez and New York Times bestselling illustrator Julie Maroh break new ground in LGBTQ Young Adult literature with this coming-out romance set...