by McKenzie Watson-Fore

The Weird Sister Collection: Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture

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Each essay in the book reprises the site’s founding intention: to create the very space one desires and to invite others into dialogue while doing so.

Margo Steines

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The idea that I would have to be silent about an experience that I had because it would make other people feel uncomfortable . . . just felt obscene at a certain point.

Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom – Grace Lavery

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Lavery, as a queer theorist, resists and problematizes the sitcom’s implicit assumption of the automatic goodness of marriage and family ties.

Brutalities: A Love Story – Margo Steines

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The narrative bite of Brutalities is generated by [its] juxtaposition: the magnetic charge between Steines’s longing for gentleness and her attraction to violence.