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Friction Burns
Title screen for Queer Man Peering into a Rock Pool dot jpeg, with some stylized waves crashing around a thin beach with a man scampering along

Shifting Tides and Dynamics in Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.Jpg

By Ruth Cassidy • July 29th, 2022

Like the changing tides, and the pitching skies, the perspective in Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg shifts.

Friction Burns
Headshot of a young woman with short hair and glasses looking pensively at the camera with a autumnal backdrop

Life Is Strange: Artificial Colors

By Ruth Cassidy • July 13th, 2022

Characters’ quirks and quips are endearing, but they never feel like more than the LARP versions of themselves: there to give information or resources, or be acted upon.

Two star filled silhouettes with text between that reads "one match light up an empire"

Winter’s Orbit, Fireheart Tiger, and the Empire

By Amanda Hudgins • February 5th, 2021

I started reading Aliette de Bodard’s Fireheart Tiger around the same time as I started finishing Everina Maxwell’s Winter’s Orbit and found overlap in both the temporal and literal sense.

Alita, large eyes looking out into the middle distance, surrounded by the male figures in her life and a gloomy sky.

Flesh Without Blood

By Astrid Budgor • March 22nd, 2019

Alita does not pass as human, either as actor or character, but the film remarkably doesn’t see “human” as the only option…Or, put another way: there is more to life than humanity.

Positive Transgender Representation in Videogames Is Now More Important Than Ever

By Khee Hoon Chan • February 28th, 2017

“Gaming is in dire need of safe spaces for the transgender community. Let’s make that happen now.”

Read Only Memories Made An Ass Of My Assumptions

By Matt Sayer • January 31st, 2017

“Identity is as much about recognition as it is appearance. If we want others to see us for who we want to be, we need to see them for who they want to be, too.”

Stardew Valley: Love Who You Actually Love

By Melissa King • March 16th, 2016

Farming simulators are finally letting you follow your heart, not societal mores.

Tusks, The Dating Sim About “Otherness” and Hot, Gay Orcs

By Tim Mulkerin • November 4th, 2015

Tim Mulkerin sat down to see what Mitch Alexander’s all male, orc dating sim was all about and how it fits into the LGBTQ community.

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