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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Threshold

The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.

Southern Golems

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it threatened to wash away a major part of the American South's Jewish history—a tough notion to sustain and preserve even in the best of times.

The Loneliest Job in Cinema: On Film's Friendless Female Sex Workers

One doesn’t have to look hard to find disheartening and downright offensive portrayals of sex workers on screen, but the conspicuous absence of friends feels particularly cruel.

‘An Artist Who Can Turn Ugliness Into Beauty’: An Interview with Hany Abu-Assad

The Palestinian filmmaker on nationalism, film as resistance and hope.

The Close of the First Decade

Starvation became a stand-in for the pain of loneliness; a way to account for it, and also to punish myself for being unlovable.

Arm's Length Pt. 1

Leave some things for me to tidy up, ok?

The Disappearing Act

As I've been continually erased by men, I've grown obsessed with remembering the women history forgot.