Posts tagged “lgbt”
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Q & A with Anna Anthropy
April 27, 2011
GG: Have you found that lesbian bloggers/gamers have responded more positively to it than their gay male (and even straight male) counterparts? If so, why do you think that is?
AA: Lots of queer and trans women have said good things to me about the game, which is ultimately the thing I want most from my games: To make a space in games culture for other queer women to feel safe raising their voices, to get other queers and pervos excited about game creation.
GG: What’s the one thing you want people–LGBT or otherwise–to get out of playing this game?
AA: A big fat orgasm.
Tags: anna anthropy, auntie pixelante, interview, lgbt, queer, rise of the videogame zinesters, videogame
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Hello, Cruel World
December 10, 2010
Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.
Tags: hello cruel world, kate bornstein, lgbt, ya
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“I don’t think it’s right for anyone to tell my little child that it’s okay for brother to wear 10,000 dresses”
April 22, 2010
We were honored to learn that Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray’s illustrated children’s book, 10,000 Dresses, was recently recommended by the organization Alameda C.A.R.E. — or “Community Alliance Resource for Education,” a group which provides support and legal advocacy for LGBT children in the Alameda school district — for inclusion in the anti-bullying curriculum required for all K-5 students in Alameda schools. And we are further honored, in a queasier sort of way, to learn that the Pacific Justice Institute — which, in Ed Meese’s estimation, “fills a critical need on the West Coast for those whose civil liberties are threatened” — has decided that Ewert and Ray’s work is harmful those same K-5 students that C.A.R.E. wants to protect, and apparently many people in the Alameda community have decided to agree.
Tags: 10000 dresses, alameda, california, education, lgbt, marcus ewert, rex ray
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TheQueerist interviews Sabrina Chapadjiev
March 10, 2010
Courtney Gillette: … Is there a queer sensibility to your music/your performances? How would you describe it?
Sabrina Chapadjiev: Well, all of the songs off the album are about exes, which have been women, so in that sense, yes, there is a queer sensibility there. Although it sort of surprised me that some people haven’t gotten that [my songs are queer]. I play with one particular band quite a bit—they open up for me and I open up for them. The main singer knows I’m queer, and finally he was like, “But you don’t say that in your songs.”
Now, there are songs where I straight up am talking about a woman— I mean, I couldn’t get more specific in “Idiom.” But then there are songs like “Little White House,” where I have the lyric:
A kid on the way
due sometime in May
we’ll dance in the kitchen while the radio plays
You’ll bring home the bacon
I’ll try a new recipe
In our little white house with a keyI was like, “Oh. . . I guess I could see why you were confused. . . but I was still talking about a girl there. I just like butch girls. And I like to cook.” He was like, “Oh.”
Tags: interviews, lgbt, live through this, sabrina chapadjiev, thequeerist
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10,000 Dresses reviewed at Rainbow Rumpus
February 5, 2010
Rainbow Rumpus — “the magazine for kids with LGBT parents” — has written not one, but two excellent reviews of Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray’s 10,000 Dresses: one for kids, and one for parents. Check them out, and congratulations yet again to Marcus and Rex!
Tags: 10000 dresses, lgbt, marcus ewert, rainbow rumpus, reviews, rex ray, ya
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ALA Midwinter Meeting Recap
January 20, 2010
At the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in Boston from January 15-18, 2010, the Seven Stories Press table was set up next to a large display of socks in all colors and sizes. Four for ten dollars, ten for twenty, mix and match: this was the refrain I heard throughout the day from my neighbor at the sock table, along with the question from the librarians: whatever possessed you to sell socks at a library convention?
That my neighbor sold hundreds, thousands of socks to these same questioners isn’t the point. He could have done as much at any other convention, and probably done better financially as well. Libraries are cutting budgets across the nation, starting with travel allotments, and attendance was down significantly from previous midwinter ALA events. In the shadow of the September 2009 scare about the Philadelphia Free Library closing its doors, the survival of libraries is more than ever in doubt—both financially, and in terms of those in power losing respect for a library’s basic mission.
Tags: 10000 dresses, ala, articles, howard zinn, lgbt, marcus ewert, rex ray
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10,000 Dresses named a Stonewall Honor Book
January 20, 2010
Hearty congratulations to Marcus Ewert, Rex Ray, and young Bailey for 10,000 Dresses, which has just been named a Stonewall Honor Book in the Children’s and Young Adult Literature category by the American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Awards Committee. See the press release here — and if you haven’t already, take a look at the book itself from Seven Stories.
Tags: 10000 dresses, awards, lgbt, marcus ewert, rex ray, stonewall award, ya
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Once You Go Back named best LGBT book of the year
December 3, 2009
Mattilda Berenstein Sycamore, author of So Many Ways To Sleep Badly, has chosen Douglas A. Martin’s Once You Go Back as her favorite LGBT-related book of 2009. Here’s what she says about it:
Remember that time in your life when you didn’t know if you would ever learn how to breathe? No, you knew you were breathing, but you wondered if it would ever feel like it was supposed to. Douglas Martin nails the claustrophobia of growing up, somehow succeeding at delivering an adult’s voice with a child’s awareness, a voice at once aloof and familiar. Martin steers clear of the typical nostalgia in order to convey a loneliness so intimate that even a catalog of deteriorating home life becomes something almost like hope. And, the best part is that he doesn’t fuck it up at the end with some kind of tidy closure – yay, thank you!
There’s still plenty of time to let Douglas A. Martin’s book become your favorite LGBT book of 2009 — get a copy of Once You Go Back from us today!
Tags: douglas a martin, fiction, lgbt, mattilda berenstein sycamore, once you go back, reviews
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The Others reviewed in Modern Tonic
June 9, 2009
The Others, the debut novel from the pseudonymous Seba al-Herz, was reviewed in Modern Tonic.
Tags: lgbt, modern tonic, reviews, saudi arabia, seba al-herz, the others
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Kate Bornstein interviewed by Genia Stevens on SistersTalk Radio
March 24, 2009
Kate Bornstein, official force of nature and author of Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws, was interviewed on Sunday, March 22 by Genia Stevens of SistersTalk Radio, founder of the GayWallet.com community. In particular, Kate talks about coming out as a transgender dyke, about her relationship with her mother throughout her life (”she loved all of the butch women I would bring home—they treated her so gallantly”), about the phenomenon of bisexual/transgender erasure, about her upcoming memoir from Seven Stories (Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger)—and about her work with convincing teens to go on living. Take a listen within.
Tags: genia stevens, hello cruel world, interviews, kate bornstein, lgbt, radio, sisterstalk
“lgbt” Posts
- Apr 27, Q & A with Anna Anthropy
- Dec 10, Hello, Cruel World
- Apr 22, “I don’t think it’s right for anyone to tell my little child that it’s okay for brother to wear 10,000 dresses”
- Mar 10, TheQueerist interviews Sabrina Chapadjiev
- Feb 5, 10,000 Dresses reviewed at Rainbow Rumpus
- Jan 20, ALA Midwinter Meeting Recap
- Jan 20, 10,000 Dresses named a Stonewall Honor Book
- Dec 3, Once You Go Back named best LGBT book of the year
- Jun 9, The Others reviewed in Modern Tonic
- Mar 24, Kate Bornstein interviewed by Genia Stevens on SistersTalk Radio
