Erasure in Peoria
Discover Peoria had only removed the video featuring a Black trans artist... Despite assurances otherwise, they understood the removal to be an act of erasure, not a simple mistake.
Any Power that Holds: An Interview with Stacy Jane Grover
"Rarely do we get to simply live our lives, to be taken for granted. Our existence in the world has to be extraordinary, and we lose our mundanity and so much of our humanness in this process."
A Pink Apocalypse in Elizabeth, PA
Experiencing Danielle Mužina’s paintings at MadKat beside the river and the train tracks in Elizabeth was one of the first times I felt women were the subject of the sentence.
Imagining Queer Appalachian Futures
A conversation with Z. Zane McNeill, editor of 'Y'All Means All.'
Portraits in Transition
On photographing non-binary community members in the Midwest and Rust Belt.
A History of the Pride Flag in My Doorway
Notes on living and moving as an out queer person in the Rust Belt.
Madeline Davis’s Queer History of Buffalo
Davis, who died last month at the age of eighty, dedicated her life to LGBTQ+ history in Buffalo.
Switch and the Pride of Youngstown
An excerpt from "The Youngstown Anthology," Second Edition.
Something Like Irresponsibility
"Just a few minutes of vacation from my straight life; then back in the car."
Power and Possibility in Dayton’s Oregon District
An elegy for a wounded place.
“Out of the Closets and Into the Streets”
Queer Midwestern communities were politically active in the pivotal years leading up to Stonewall.