Smith’s novel excites me, both as a lesbian and as a reader, and I wonder at the teens reading this book in their school libraries: passing over the typical, the cis, the heterosexual, and instead finding something like themselves.
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INTERVIEW: Queer, Poly, and Platonic: Two Partners Discuss Their Unconventional Love
works“Over the years, our identities, understandings of relationships, and politics have changed radically with and because of each other. We now both have girlfriends, live in different countries, and are still deeply committed to one another.”
Vice interviewed my partner and I about polyamory, commitment, and unconventional queer love.
INTERVIEW: Mariah MacCarthy on Writing Messy Complex Characters
worksWriter and creatrix Mariah MacCarthy’s debut YA novel Squad (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) tackles the growing pains of high school with grace, femininity, and just a splash of queer romance.
Squad’s protagonist, Jenna, is self-involved turned scrappy when she loses the trust of her best friend and abruptly quits cheer squad. Without cheerleading—the driving force of her life and relationships—Jenna struggles to define herself. Along the way, she dates James, a trans boy and senior. Their relationship is lovesick and lusty as the pair negotiate boundaries, communicate consent, and get in over their heads. But the core of Squad isn’t James or any other boy, but rather Jenna’s relationship to her transforming self. Squad is a refreshing and well-deserved departure from the typical teen novel because nothing is tidy. Jenna’s mess is her own, and as she cleans it up, you root for her with all your heart.
I spoke with Mariah about writing Squad, being a gender cyborg, and why teenage girls deserve better.
THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT #181: SEAN DORSEY
worksFresh Meat Festival is a three-day music and dance festival of trailblazing queer and trans performance. Finding home in San Francisco, Fresh Meat goes beyond centering trans and queer artists; in all aspects, this festival is planned with a mosaic of bodies and needs in mind. Tickets are on a sliding pay scale (with no ID required to purchase or pick up!) and accessibility information is front and center: ramps, accessible bathrooms, armless chairs, scent-reduced areas, all-gender bathrooms, and ASL interpreters available for every performance. Fresh Meat is not just put on each year, rather it is curated. The performers—ranging from queer boy bands to comedic storytelling to vogue ensembles—provide a breadth of expression and experience not often afforded to trans creatives in culture, let alone performance.
Poem: come & go
worksPublished by Butter Press, Issue 2
Originally published by Argot Magazine
10 Summer Tracks for Girls Who Want Girls
worksThis summer I want to kiss girls. Girls sticky with lipgloss, girls purple with lipstain, girls sweet with cherry chapstick. I dream about kissing girls in my car (front or back seat). I dream about kissing them in the shade or in the sun. We are always a little bit sweaty and smelling like grass. We are always kissing to music.
Submission Deadline Extended
worksDEADLINE EXTENDED for the Sinister Wisdom 2020 Wall Calendar
lesbians, dykes, queer cuties, & gay baddies SEND ME YOUR ART and contribute to the longest running lesbian publication ~ ever ~
DEADLINE: APRIL 15TH, 2019
email me with questions, concerns, & compliments at sara.gregory91@gmail.com
Call for Art Submissions
worksCall for art submissions: Sinister Wisdom 2020 calendar.
Submissions due April 1st (negotiable)
poem: come & go
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THE RUMPUS MINI-INTERVIEW PROJECT #160: KIMBERLY DARK
worksA hybrid of culture critique, magical realism, and BDSM, Kimberly Dark’s The Daddies is a kaleidoscopic love letter to masculinity. Though The Daddies tells the story of one break-up between lesbian lovers, the novel is more widely concerned with patriarchy, power, and pleasure and how those forces shape lives. Dark offers a fe(me)inist exploration of the masculine, while still leaving room for transformation, both cultural and interpersonal.
