Volume 3, No. 22: Making Space for Queer Grief

Pacing & Tragedy in 'And Then He Sang a Lullaby'

Greetings, book people!

I’ve been thinking a lot about Pride, and the conversations we tend to have during Pride Month, and how I kind of hate all of them. We shouldn’t celebrate, or we don’t feel like celebrating, because of all the anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ legislation in the U.S. right now. We need to celebrate precisely because of what’s happening. This is how you should feel about Pride, and this is how you shouldn’t, and this is what straight people should be doing, and this is what they shouldn’t be doing, and if you’re not loud about queer liberation then you’re a terrible person, and if you are loud about it, make sure you’re loud in the right way. The first Pride was a riot, and Pride is political, and corporations that profit off queer lives in June while donating to politicians trying to legislate us out of existence are trash, yes, and. Yes and.

The thing is, I don’t care what straight people do during Pride or how they act or what they say. If you are invested in queer li…