A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.
Tag: queer
Review: Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
A story of growing up black and queer in the UK.
Review: Detransition, Baby
Detransition, Baby is out to shake your notions of gender and family to their core.
Review: Revenge by S. L. Lim
A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”
Five new queer films to add to your watchlist
My pick of the recent Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
Review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.
Review: Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
A tale of despair, illness and poverty that captures the swooping highs and devastating lows of life.
Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)
Lesbians! Cowboys! Argentina!
Review: Guillotine by Eduardo C. Corral
These are brutal, bruised poems, like desert storms, lit with lightning strokes of beauty.
Review: Cherry Beach by Laura McPhee-Browne
Cherry Beach is a painful portrait of millennial queer life, and agonising desire.
