Poetry

When Bernardine Evaristo won a £100,000 award, she founded the RSL Pioneer prize for women writers over 60 — and chose Duffy as the first recipient.

2024 was the Year of The Lesbian.

Dorothy Allison, the acclaimed lesbian-feminist writer, passed away at her home in Northern California on November 6, 2024

Get cozy with a new queer book.

Maybe I’ll never really know how to love something until I’m grieving it.

We cannot be silenced, no matter how hard they try / We love you forever, NYC Pride.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Riding in cars with bois.

Join Ferlise on a divinely raw and darkly hilarious journey through modern spirituality in an attempt to quiet her demons.

From singers, to authors, to historical figures, to activists, these 20 extraordinary Black women deserve to be celebrated everyday.

I don’t think I’ve ever fallen out of love with anyone I’ve been with. Not completely anyway.

“It’s not the mistake that matters, it’s how you come back from that.”

“We’re not afraid to be queer and different. / If that means hell, well hell we’ll take the chance. / They’re all so straight, uptight, upright, and rigid. They march in lockstep; we prefer to dance. / We see a world of romance and pleasure. All they can see is sheer banality. Lavender night, our greatest treasure, where we can be just who we want to be.”

Her Mouth A Door, After Which / There Is Another Door

“I think that, when you layer gender and sexuality, and race on storytelling, it gets harder and harder and harder to tell your story sometimes, and the amount of space or permission you have to do that can really become smaller, and smaller and smaller.”

“We tell each other stories in order to live.”

I say “yes” to Dionysus and the joy of being in both the lightness and the darkness.

I missed my girlfriend so thoroughly, in a way these songs understood. I now knew what it was like to want a person so badly that it can only be described in anatomical terms: it’s physically impossible to get close enough until you’re shrunk down and inside their bones. 

We can’t be what we can’t imagine. We need to see ourselves living joyfully, lovingly, fully in the world.

Andrea Gibson will pull you back into focus when you feel yourself fading away.

“I have mastered the art of supplanting sadness with stories”