Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Women's Studies. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. Landykes of the South is the second special issue of Sinister Wisdom (Sinister Wisdom 98) featuring memoirs, interviews, essays, and artifacts from the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project... read more

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. OUR LADY OF THE CROSSWORD is a sexy new chapbook from award-winning author Rigoberto González, who casts his poetic eye to such varied subjects as word puzzles, Mexican TV in the 80s, can-can dancing, and other compelling encounters that shaped the political consciousness of his cultural heritage and sexuality...read more

Poetry. LGBT Studies. COMMON PLACE continues Halpern's sustained inquiry into the relations of body and voice to relentless militarization and economic depredation. Written in enjambed verses and impacted prose, Halpern's language is at once raw and sculpted, passionate, and analytic...read more

Poetry. LGBT Studies. In HOME STUDIES, Julie Gard presents queer midwestern family life from a fresh and engaging perspective. Her prose poetry illuminates the struggles and celebrations of adoptive parenting, love over time, and finding one's place in a community...read more

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Navigating the subtle ways language (con)forms the body, LEVITATIONS spans childhood, community, and love to explore how we might break free from the cultural demands of normalcy. Imagined as "a preface for the work to come,"...read more

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Winner of the 2014 Sawtooth Poetry Prize, selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge. A book-length epistolary collection of hybrid-, trans-, and inter-genre prose, DEAR HERCULINE is an intertextual project that recalls portions of the 19th-century French hermaphrodite Herculine Barbin's memoirs, discovered and re-published by Michel Foucault... read more

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. FARTHER TRAVELER by Ronaldo Wilson is an expansive, complex hybrid of poetry, prose, and memoir that engages with contemporary culture, race and sexuality... read more

Poetry. LGBT Studies. This collection of poems charts the course of a speaker coming-of-age in rural South Mississippi, a world that is sublime and terrifying, but these poems are not limited to one landscape, region or approach. If this collection has a hero, it is Gigolo who confesses his hand- bitten tale of survival, navigating the difficulties of his inevitable frail natures, holding his fist up to what he dreams and lives for. He speaks of the wounds that must be spoken of... read more