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Review: Panacea
Charli Drever’s Panacea is a hard-driving, near future, sci-fi thrill ride that doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to the dystopian narrative.
Review: Dark Factory
Dark Factory is a literary hallucination delivered in a hurtling, blink and you miss it style full of mind-bending dark imagery verging on madness.
Review: Bluebird
Bluebird is a fun, femme, action-filled space opera with thriller vibes and gunslinger appeal.
Review: Into the Lightning Gate
Into the Lightning Gate is an exciting, fresh take on the sci-fi thriller, with grand, multi-dimensional set pieces, an intriguing storyline, and a diverse cast of enjoyable, well-conceived characters.
Review: Dark Theory
Dark Theory is a broad, winding adventure tale that weaves together many fan-favorite tropes of hard sci-fi and fantasy into an epic saga.
Review: The Boy With a Bird In His Chest
The Boy With a Bird In His Chest is an achingly beautiful modern fantasy tale full of creative allegory, vibrant imagery, and young love.
Review: Founder’s Mercy
Founder’s Mercy is a thrilling, young-adult sci-fi adventure that will keep you turning pages until the very end. I dare you to try putting it down!
Review: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet is a fun, friendly, femme-centric sci-fi story full of heart and soul.
Dating Apps and the Ghosts of Relationships Past
Consider the moments you have fallen in love. If you unpick the threads, you will quickly find much of the falling occurred in the mind. Many artifacts that go towards creating intimacy are imagined. We can’t fully understand or know someone else, but we can construct a persona around them and a shared view of the future.
The Rise of the Porn-tropreneur
“Porn is the billboard. Cam is the product,” my housemate and porn performer in Las Vegas tells me. She makes most of her money from camming: a form of live streaming, where viewers tip for a sexual performance via webcam. For her, performing in porn films is now more...
Everyone’s Lusting After Jonathan Lyndon Chase
Philadelphia-based artist Jonathan Lyndon Chase is one of the most sought after painters from a growing pool of young, queer, POC artists. His lush, colorful, mixed-media depictions of often taboo subjects – sex, queerness, and the black male body – are energetic in a way that seem the set the still images in motion.
Speaking Out About Medical Racism
Ericka Hart is changing the face of health education. The breast cancer awareness and representation advocate was diagnosed with breast cancer, and now in her mid- 30s, she is challenging institutionalized racism in the medical industry—known as medical racism.
The First Gay Country Band Is Adopted By A New Generation Of Radicals
Lavender Country, the first known gay country band formed in 1972, has found a new audience, and founder Patrick Haggerty has a certain way of describing them: “I call them the pink-haired, anarcho, fuck-you crowd. Now you know who I’m talking about, right? And listen, they are my comrades.”
Nauticult’s “Saturn Devours The Sun” Takes On Abusers And Cycles Of Violence
Violence and abuse are “very broad, but deeply personal” to Sankey, who finds a kind of exorcism in using “violent music” to address the nightmarish realities of these issues. “Saturn Devours The Sun” was penned three years ago, and Sankey admits she’s ready to move on.
The Decade of the Pronoun
On Jan 3, 2020, the American Dialect Society held its 30th annual “Word of the Year” vote, which this year also included a vote for “Word of the Decade.” It was the year – and the decade – of the pronoun.