How an African Princess Became a Singer of a Queer-Affirming God By Elijah Beahm • August 7th, 2024 “Whenever I’m writing a song, whenever I’m singing a song, I make sure that I’m coming from a place of being free, just being free. I let my emotions speak through my song.”
Friction Burns 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 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.
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.
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.