Letters from Byron to his best friend Elizabeth reveal the intense emotions of one of his first queer relationships.
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It’s tempting to see this trend as a sign of the times. But the biggest book publishers started changing their approach only once they realized they were leaving money on the table.
The Modern, a debut novel centred on an Australian researcher at New York’s MoMA, muses on modern art and relationships – riffing off MoMA artists like Grace Hartigan and Nan Goldin.
Digital platforms have birthed a new school of writers and activists in Nigeria and Kenya.
Frank Moorhouse had a lifelong fascination with crossing borders – including the borders of gender and sexuality. It was reflected in both his life and his writing.
A scholar of queer literature takes a closer look at five books that are pushing the envelope on society’s understanding of LGBTQ life.
A teacher was fired this month for reading his favourite picture book, I Need a New Butt, to kids. It’s an example of how US conservatives are focusing on school boards as weapons in the culture wars.
The lives of queer Arab-Australian boys and men are vividly inhabited in award-winning poet Omar Sakr’s darkly comic debut novel, set in Western Sydney.
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Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of California, Irvine
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor (Literature), Australian Catholic University
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Professor of Media, Department of Media, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of African Literature, Ghent University
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PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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PhD Student in Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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AHRC Funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History, University of Nottingham
