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The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) is a perfect beach read. I write this knowing that the term “beach read” carries with it a faint whiff of disapprobation and unseriousness, and you could say the same thing about the topics TSOJP concerns itself with: teens, queerness, romantic comedy, fashion,…
Whatever you think Disobedience is, it’s going to surprise you. Like the body of an old lover, under your hands again after many years, it’s familiar, yet surpassingly strange. It makes use of some of queer cinema’s most shopworn tropes, but brings them to adulthood, stripped of their fairytale illusions about themselves. (That’s not a…
Every woman alive knows what it’s like to be obsessed with another woman. Conjure her in your mind. You can see her. She is impeccably dressed. Maybe you hate her. Maybe you idolize her. Maybe she’s your best friend. You might want her, but even if you’re as straight as a ruler you still know…
The year 2018 can be best described by the opening voiceover to Mad Max: Fury Road: “As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy: me, or everyone else.” The panic of 2017 has given way to a far more insidious exhaustion,…
From April 5 though 9, thousands of queer, trans, nonbinary, and otherwise spectacular folks descended on the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas for ClexaCon 2018. What followed was a long weekend celebrating the truths we all hold to be self-evident: that representation is important, that fans have the power to create change, and that women…
Here is one of the bravest quotes in all of literature: “I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.” The speaker of those words is, of course, Sarah of Sarah Plain and Tall, who is preparing to travel from Maine to the Midwestern prairies and meet the people…