Alyssa Greene

Spotlight on New Queer Literature is a monthly series highlighting publications that are LGBTQIA owned, promote queer and trans writers, or publish work on LGBTQIA themes, seeking to connect Lambda’s readership with contemporary queer publishers and authors. To ring in the new year, Lambda spoke with César Ramos, founder and editor of Raspa Magazine, a print magazine dedicated to queer Latinx literature. We spoke about Raspa‘s dedication to artistic innovation, representation, and community building. Tell us a little bit about Raspa and its mission. Raspa Magazine is a response to paucity of queer Latinx literature readily available to readers. Through […]

“It’s one thing to discuss your family’s trauma with other family,” writes Michelle Tea. “It’s another thing entirely to release their stories to a world that doesn’t love them.” She’s writing about the HAGS, a San Francisco group of lesbian punks active in the 1990s, but the sentiment could easily apply to many of the essays in Against Memoir, a new collection of Tea’s writings from Feminist Press. The pieces brought together in Against Memoir navigate the difficult balance of the personal and the communal, and the dynamics of discussing fraught issues within a community (especially queer communities), versus discussing […]