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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.

The Year in Ugliness

If beauty is in acts of ordinary devotion I think ugliness must be in the acts of everyday neglect.

'Trans People Deserve Magic': An Interview with Kai Cheng Thom

The author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars on the joy of writing a cast of women, the violence of passing and the responsibilities of media-makers.

The Year in Living Alone

I am learning what it is to be responsible for my own warmth.

The Year in Cultivation

One thing I love about many types of guardianship in food is that it requires you watch, but not too closely.

Living in the Shadow of the Halifax Explosion

My neighbourhood doesn't look like a place where, a century ago, hundreds of people were incinerated, and that's exactly the point.

Chasing Ghost Signs

Searching for fading words in London, New York, Melbourne and San Francisco.