JoJo Siwa and Ethel Cain are both reimagining Kim Carnes’s ode to queer longing, ‘Bette Davis Eyes.’ But while Cain updates the track, tradwife Siwa drags it back into the closet. https://t.co/7XfPk1lDEj
Founded in 1972, Jewel’s Catch One was one of the first, if not the first, Black-owned discos in the country and a safe haven for Black and LGBTQ people in L.A. Watch a newly available #InTheLife interview with its founder, Jewel Thais-Williams: https://t.co/6WtK1YJz22 #Pride
". . . how a tiny magazine run by a lesbian couple from the American Midwest came to publish some of the most innovative writing produced across Europe and the US between 1914 and 1929." @francescawade on THE LITTLE REVIEW https://t.co/q42KDRnMlV
Diary entires by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, as adapted by E.A. Bethea, part of a 10 page story on Zwerling by Bethea for CREASE, an anthology of adaptations of transgressive literature---coming soon (we swear) from Domino. Link to pre-order here:
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Granta mourns the great Gary Indiana. We unlock his last piece for us, and will publish the fiction he was working on in our Spring issue.
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In "Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage" @masiasare explores the cultural linage of icons like Ma Rainey, Eartha Kitt, and Bessie Smith. Read the intro at https://t.co/S7M2yIFh5o
For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about the brilliant Joanna Russ and her extremely gay realist novel, recently reissued by @FeministPress:
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such a pleasure to work with Mary Gaitskill on this strange essay, and to see how she expresses uncanny and unknowable things with such clear prose
(available to read for free right now)
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Back at IFC Center next Monday for a rare screening of these two 90s dyke porn classics, with producer / On Our Backs magazine cofounder Nan Kinney in attendance
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