Happy Pride to all of our LGBTQIA+ readers, authors, and staff! While there are quite a few Queer titles you can start reading right away, there are also a few titles to watch out for, and we don’t want them slipping under your radar. Evergreen by Devin Greenlee Nature buries…
Tag: Pride Month
For LGBTQIA+ people, representation in media is constantly expanding. I hesitate to use the words “forward” or “come a long way” – because there’s no such thing as “forward” and “backward” when queer, trans, and other ways of being outside the colonial “norm” have existed forever. It’s more of a…
When I first started in publishing around ten years ago, there wasn’t a lot of queer representation. There were hardly any F/F books in stores, especially not any about bisexual or pansexual teens that I had access to. And certainly none whatsoever about queer characters of color, let alone…
A number of sapphic ships were critical to my coming out—Clexa from The 100, Wayhaught from Wynonna Earp, Golly from Rookie Blue, Vauseman from Orange is the New Black. At that time in my life, seeing queer relationships normalized on TV was such an important thing for me, especially…
The early days of the pandemic hit me hard. I live with OCD and anxiety. Anytime there’s a hint of “doom” in the news, I panic, imagining all the worst potential outcomes and perseverating on them. Everyone told me it would be fine, things would blow over and when…