Book Review: Trans Bear Diaries: Calling My Deadname Home by Avi Ben-Zeev
His journey reminds us that to fully embody our truth, we must first make peace with every chapter of our story—even the ones we may wish to leave behind.
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Muswell Press calls for submissions for third edition of ‘Queer Life, Queer Love’
They are looking for original voices and brilliant writing which explores characters, stories and experiences beyond the mainstream. Celebrating the fascinating, the forbidden, the subversive, and even the mundane, but in essence, the view from outside
BOOK REVIEW: ‘From Mohair Suits to Kinky Boots’ by Geoff Deane
This is a tale of a fortunate life, grasped and wrung out, told with self-depreciating humour by a man with some considerable insight into his own and the wider world’s bullshit
BOOK REVIEW: QUEER LIFE, QUEER LOVE. VOLUME 2 Matt Bates
These stories hold the beat of Queerness strong…. holding up to the light, pressing close in the shadows, highlighting in ultra neon, throwing the most fabulous shade, the intersectional voices of the authors are seriously diverse.
BOOK REVIEW: The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom
The book is alive in the hands, no easy read, it wriggles and tries to leap away from you. I had to put it down more than once as a sentence took a turn into the brutal crepuscular silence and the rough marsh came for me. I laid down and wept.
REVIEW: Queer Life, Queer Love
The prose is world class, the arguments a clarion call, although not all of them recent, they chime in our daily lives still. The authentic narrative of personal experience of transition lift this book into Gospel and the poetry shakes it all back down again with metaphorical and emotional lightning