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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.

32 Things We Need Words For in 2015

In response to Time magazine's poll, "Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015" (which suggests we ban "feminist"), a list of the opposite.

Stumbling Towards the Mainstream: On Azealia Banks' Broke With Expensive Taste

Banks' long-delayed debut album arrived with a shrug, but this is less evidence of an artist failing to live up to her potential than of the still-crushing vagaries of the record industry.

Three Guns

The ones that scare us, the ones that take things away from us, and the ones that make us feel in control.