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Tag: LGBTIQ

Review: Detransition, Baby

Detransition, Baby is out to shake your notions of gender and family to their core.

Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, New York, queer, Transgender

Review: Revenge by S. L. Lim

A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”

Australian, Contemporary, Female writers, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Malaysia, Novel, queer, Stella Prize

Five new queer films to add to your watchlist

My pick of the recent Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

Film, France, Germany, Israel, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Mexico, Movies, queer

Review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.

Black writers, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, US

Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)

Lesbians! Cowboys! Argentina!

Argentina, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous Americans, LGBTIQ, Man Booker International, Novel, queer, Translation

Review: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

Cleanness is a book of lofty ideas, grounded in the flesh.

Bulgaria, Contemporary, Fiction, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer

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