12:56 min
CLEAR ALL
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.
For LGBTQ youth in particular, the Internet can be a refuge—a safe place to feel less alone. For queer youth to feel normal, they need to see, read and hear the voices of others who look like them and use the same identifying labels.
“Representation and visibility is given to us by larger power structures, but what do we give ourselves? I’m more interested in that. What questions are we asking ourselves to grow and heal? To challenge the ways this world constantly teaches us to hate ourselves?”
LGBTQ legal strategy has long focused on equal protection. But if identity itself can be political speech, the First Amendment could be our future.
“There is no one way to be non-binary, and that’s truthfully one of the best things about it. It’s an identity that is yours to shape.
There can be confusion around the appropriate terminology for trans and queer identities, even within the trans community itself. As language is constantly evolving, it can be especially difficult to know what to say.
“Google outed me.”
The ever-viral artist discusses his meteoric rise and the pressures of being a Black gay musician on a global stage.
We talked to the writer about his debut memoir How We Fight for Our Lives and his move from poetry to prose.
Xe/xem, ze/zir, and fae/faer are catching on as alternatives for transgender and nonbinary people