Interviews

G. Samantha Rosenthal

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We can look at a rainbow crosswalk, maybe take a selfie with it, and feel recognized or represented in some way, but it doesn’t actually create a space for queer or trans belonging in any real sense.

Jinwoo Chong

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I really don’t have a palate for total desolation in books. . . . So maybe as an unconscious decision I worked in these moments of hope or pockets of happiness that saved me from spiraling completely.

Sandra Simonds

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We’re all living in a historical moment that we can’t get out of.

Pyae Moe Thet War

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You have to stand by your work at the end of the day, and honestly, if this book didn’t make me laugh, I wouldn’t have let it go to print.

Chanté L. Reid

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I want to take things seriously, because these are serious things I’m writing about, but life is so funny, so ridiculous, and so bizarre—and the more bizarre I made the book, the more the book looked like real life.

Joey Hedger & Donald Ryan

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All someone needs to do is open a window to a place like that and let me peer inside, and I’m intrigued.

Andrea Abi-Karam

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I’m into spiky fashion and queer leather and outrageous looks and every so often an element of club kid. But different. I see queer fashion and the role it plays for me as one of adornment and resilience. Leather is another layer of skin, very protective. And spikes are a deterrent. So it’s a kind of armor. 

Lawrence Millman

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Why would I want to write about my love affairs, my dinners with eminences, and my published works when the primordial North occupied such a crucial spot in my mind?

Grant Maierhofer, Part II

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[Digging] reflects . . . for me, rather than a resignation, an active embrace of the dirt, the mud, the worms, the fungus, the bodies. The best way out is through . . . this kind of thing.

Grant Maierhofer

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It made sense to me that writers or artists should utilize constraint in our present world of seemingly limitless possibility.