literature
It's a Living
Transfeminine nightmare, the need to fight, and the screaming earth in Aoife Josie Clements' "Persona"
transgender
literature
A Fucked Concept
Emily Zhou's debut short story collection demystifies life among the overeducated, underpaid NYC trans women you envy online.
Louise Weard
A Bushwick Version of The Divine Comedy
For the third chapter of Castration Movie, Louise Weard relocates to New York and doubles down on her painfully necessary satire of 21st century transfeminine life.
trans cinema
Deadbeats and Dropouts
Canadian filmmaker Louise Weard's slow-burning "Castration Movie" is already a masterful work of trans cinema, and it's only half done.
trans
I Saw the TV Glow... and All I Got Were These Bad Vibes
Jane Shoenbrun's trans-coded psychedelic psychodrama is a masterpiece of atmosphere, but it's also a solipsistic bummer.
poetry review
This Unique Trans Loneliness Eats Away at Me... and I Love It
A bit of memoir, followed by a book report on Jennifer Espinoza's "I Don't Want to Be Understood"