Penguins Fly: A Queer Tale by Teren Hazzard
One of the first things that strike is how novel the literal colour. Every title is blue and the endpapers are blue sky and cumulous clouds continuing from the cover.
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The Longest Death by Kevin Jagernauth
As a Neo-noir Neo-pulp (to coin a term), The Longest Death impressed and entertained me.
Infinite Audition by Charlie Petch
Anyone who lived in Toronto in the late 80s/early 90s will know this place, will know what this time did to bodies trying to find love and acceptance, bodies willing to pay any price.
The Dad Rock that Made Me a Woman by Niko Stratis
Niko Stratis’s The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman is a book for this moment when we’re re-evaluating algorithmic curation and rediscovering the human connections in our playlists.
Sincerely Katherine: Life, Gender, Inclusivity and Leadership for the Future by Katherine Dudtschak
Sincerely Katherine: Life, Gender, Inclusivity and Leadership for the Future by Katherine Dudtschak is a memoir that is synthesizing the past in order to better live the future. As the subtitle indicates, through Katherine’s story she frames a way forward for a better society. Personally, I like what I don’t know anything about, so Katherine’s …
Throwback: Excerpts from a Burned Letter by Joelle Barron
Within a faith tradition that sees only two genders, and from the purview of a small northern community, what can a young person know about themselves and their possibilities?
“Beauty in Filth, Rot in Divinity:” Stigmata by Scott Jackshaw
Their debut poetry collection, Stigmata, illustrates their prowess in queer theory, apophatic theology and poststructuralism that not only examines the tension between sexual deviancy and religion and how these two subject matters can have their own version of the profane,but also their thoughts and trying to make sense of their own being.
A Friend of Dorothy’s by Richard Willett
The focus of the book is that compassionate curiosity of the narrator Eric as he tries to puzzle out his life, his times.
Dengue Boy by Michel Nieva, trans. Rahul Bery
An object of disgust, Dengue Boy is marked from birth as an outcast. Beset by a sudden thirst for blood, which only female mosquitoes possess, Dengue Boy realizes in adolescence that she is really Dengue Girl and sets out to exact her revenge on the wealthy people and tourists for whom her mother toils tirelessly.
A Quilting of Scars by Lucy E.M. Black
There is a mystery to uncover situated in the detailed life on the farm during the late 1800s. Black’s flair for writing superb and timely dialogue keeps the reader planted in this time and space.
Starry Starry Night by Shani Mootoo
I think one of the hardest things to write is from the viewpoint of a child.
Everything Is Fine Here by Iryn Tushabe
Everything Is Fine Here is a great introduction to Ugandan culture, and a tender coming-of-age story in a mix of cultures and beliefs.
She and Poetry is Queer by Kirby
In the world I inhabit much of what is commonly understood about mutual attraction continues to be based on cis-gendered heterosexual and patriarchal ideas of what “sex” is, of what we understand to be “male” or “female” to be. Anything else is queer, as in othered.
ANOMIA by Jade Wallace
After reviewing Jade Wallace’s poetry book Love is a Place But You Cannot Live There, I was hoping to see a sort of poetic influence reflected in this novel and it delivered. Wallace proves to be skilled in multiple genres and is a natural storyteller in all of them.
