After seeing it on my timeline consistently, I finally got the chance to take Katherine Locke's The Girl with the Red Balloon out of the library. As somebody reconnecting with a Jewish heritage I never got to learn about, I was pretty excited, but I didn't know much about what to expect. What I got was haunting, gorgeous … Continue reading Review: Girl with the Red Balloon
July was an awesome month for new music, and picking only ten for this list was really, really hard. Both Of Monsters and Men's Fever Dream and Sum 41's Order in Decline dropped this month (I touched on some of the early singles in my previous month's collection of new music) and they're both amazing listening experiences. This month, Tegan and … Continue reading New Music: July
Despite the surge in interest in the last decade, LGBT/queer history is still understudied - and what is studied is often consigned to theses, academic journals or half-deserted blogs, shouting out into a void. It's hard to change the conception of queerness as a rare and recent thing. That's why I was thrilled to run … Continue reading Review: David Bowie Made Me Gay
Mental health representation is incredibly important to me; I write it into my stories because I didn't see enough of it growing up, and when books do it right, I sing their praises because it is such a relief not to feel like a monster for once. So when I say that Heretic's Guide to Homecoming is one of … Continue reading Review: Heretic’s Guide to Homecoming by Sienna Tristen
