Reading Queer announces Queer Depot as the new name for its literary salon series According to our friends at Wikipedia, a “salon is a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge…
Julio Miranda supports Reading Queer
“Literature definitely helped to mold me into the goof I am today,” wrote Reading Queer supporter Julio Miranda. “You slowly forge your own identity through everything you expose yourself to, and that crawls hand in hand with everything you pursue. If a writing program like Reading Queer will help GLBT…
The Enormous Treasure of Neiber
In this short video, Argentinian trans musician and artist Neiber talks about her support for Reading Queer. “A project that…helps connect artists,” she says “whether they are writers or not…is absolutely important.” Neiber also opens up about the treasure she’s acquired by walking though the different phases of her life.…
Queering Language by Tim Trace Peterson
(Republished with author’s permission. Originally published in EOAGH. Read the Queering Language issue of EOAGH here.) Oh, it’s just queering language. It resists categorizations, clarifications, and excuses, hovering somewhere in the densely-populated nexus between theory and practice, taking names… For me this project began out of a deep sympathy with…
Reading Queer Promotional Video Behind the Scenes
Despite the heat and the humidity, we pulled it off. Photographer and cinematographer Amira Hadla Chomiak shot the first promotional video for Reading Queer at Panther Coffee in the Wynwood Arts District. The purpose of the video is to use it as a tool to communicate who we are and…
Reading Queer needs you!
Dear Community, Writing saved me! It empowered me. It emboldened me. Without this gift, I would not be here. It gave me purpose and the confidence to speak up when I thought that I didn’t have
(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life by Maureen Seaton
At age thirty, newly divorced and waking up to the fact that I had a body, I wrote a graphically sexual poem called “Lois Lane” about the boyfriend who helped release me from my Stepford twenties. I kept writing poems about my so-called normal straight life until I turned thirty-nine…