McKenzie Wark
- Talk
Diana Goetsch. Photo by Svetlana Jovanovic Diana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poetry and the “Life in Transition” blog at The American Scholar. McKenzie Wark talked to Goetsch about gender transition, writing through the body, New York nightlife, and her new memoir, This Body I Wore (Farrar,
VOLUME 1: ISSUE 3
JULY/AUGUST 2022
- Blood and Lipstick
OTHER PRESS, MAY 2022, 208 PP. We have always existed everywhere. In the Anglophone world of today, we are called trans women. We have had many names. Different cultures of “gender,” if that’s even the right word, leave different slots open for us. The gender system forced on much of
VOLUME 1: ISSUE 2
MAY/JUNE 2022
- Cocky as Hell
Seal Press, February 2022, 304 pp I once saw Grace Lavery do a reading—more like what comedians call a tight five—and it killed. The text of that performance is in Please Miss, but it didn’t work for me on the page. I wanted to love this book but didn’t.
VOLUME 1: ISSUE 1
MARCH/APRIL 2022
- Fault Lines
LITTLEPUSS PRESS, OCTOBER 2022, 208 PP. TRANS WOMEN MOTHER each other when nobody else will. Cecilia Gentili is a legend among New York trans women; there must be hundreds for whom she is “mom.” It’s a hard role to play for trans women whose relationship to their own mothers
VOLUME 1: ISSUE 4
FALL 2022
- TILIFI
Verso, 176 pp MISS MAJOR IS an icon of Black trans womanhood. Born in Chicago in 1946, she was on a path to some sort of Black middle-class life. At college in Minnesota, she left during her first term after a roommate discovered her femme wardrobe, came back to Hyde
VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1
SPRING 2023