Write Through the Night

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie brings Nintendo’s iconic world to the big screen with bold animation, energetic pacing, and a story that leans into the charm of the original games. From the moment the movie opens, it’s clear the creators wanted to honor the franchise’s history while still making something accessible for viewers who may not know every character or reference.  Humor, action, and…

If you aren’t fully caught up on Love Island USA season 8, today is your day to do it. Wednesday is the only day of the week without an episode, and this season I’m making your catch-ups even easier by providing an episode-by-episode breakdown of everything that happened in the past week. In the fallout of movie night, there are multiple dumpings and it finally feels like Love Island. I’m…

It’s a tumultuous time to be living in the United States, especially as a trans person. Just last week, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold laws in West Virginia and Idaho that prevent trans girls from participating in youth sports. Amber Stewart and her wife Jamie saw the writing on the wall earlier than most. In In the Garden, Stewart chronicles the period of her life which began with trying to…

It’s not easy being the new kid in town. There’s always the difficulty of starting over at a new school and navigating the troubled waters of adolescence. This tumultuous experience is made even more difficult when you’re really not a kid at all. In fact, you’re a vampiric feline entity with shapeshifting abilities known as a sleepwalker. You’re also in an incestuous relationship with your own…

There are so many July book releases I’m genuinely looking forward to reading this summer! Thrillers from established authors, debut literary fiction, and lighthearted romance are all included in this month’s list of the most anticipated July 2026 book releases. If we’re missing your favorite, let me know in the comments! *We use Bookshop and Amazon affiliate links. Purchasing through our link…

If you aren’t fully caught up on Love Island USA, today is your day to do it. Wednesday is the only day of the week without an episode, and this season I’m making your catch-ups even easier by providing an episode-by-episode breakdown of everything that happened in the past week. This week mostly dealt with the fallout from Casa Amor. Everyone finally ended up back in one place, and that meant…

How far would you go to get people to see the real you? That is the central question in Carrying by Samatha Josephs, a novel about a woman whose life is turned upside down when she begins suffering a mysterious illness. Martha is a stealth trans woman, and she passes so well—and abandoned enough people from her before life—that nobody even knows she’s trans. Her husband, her step-daughter, and…

Learning about queer history can sometimes feel like an overwhelming experience. Books written by Judith Butler might look more like tombs than accessible material. It’s actually so much easier to learn about LGBTQ+ history than you think, though, and a great place to start is by watching queer documentaries. This pride month, here are the 10 best queer documentaries of all time (of the ones…

If you aren’t fully caught up on Love Island USA, today is your day to do it. Wednesday is the only day of the week without an episode, and this season I’m making your catch-ups even easier by providing an episode-by-episode breakdown of everything that happened in the past week. Love Island US season eight is in full swing. Our islanders are currently in Casa Amor and making the classic…

After watching the first three episodes of Half Man, I had high expectations for the series. I was excited by the idea that Richard Gadd was exploring toxic masculinity through a distinctly queer lens and found myself drawn in by the powerful performances. I was very interested in seeing what conclusions Gadd reached through his narrative and if all of the violence was worth the pay off. As it…

Parenthood is a deeply personal experience. How you have a child, who you have a child with, and whether or not you can carry that child becomes even more sensitive when you’re queer. Joseph Osmundson has always wanted to be pregnant and have a child, even as he knew it would never be a possibility. In Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood, Osmundson explores his parenthood journey…

Week two of Love Island USA has historically been iconic. Rob Rausch said the most viral sentence of all time. Huda and Jeremiah’s toxic love triangle started and ended. Unfortunately for season eight of the show, this week’s batch of episodes was fairly lackluster. Last week, I recapped each episode individually. For Love Island USA episodes six through thirteen, I’m going to write more…

Before we had the Girls Like Girls movie, we had the five minute version on Youtube. It’s hard to capture just how important the “Girls Like Girls” music video was to me when it was first released in 2015. Hayley Kiyoko’s music was unapologetically gay at a time when I was still figuring myself out. Between “Girls Like Girls”, Fletcher’s “Wasted Youth” (2017), and Kiyoko’s collaboration with…

You know it’s officially summer when Love Island USA is back on our screens every night of the week. This is one of the most entertaining reality shows because the cameras are always up, so over the course of filming you get to know the islanders for their true selves. Of course, the problem with the Love Island franchise is that there’s dozens of episodes. It’s a full time job just to keep up.…

Breathing in Broken Spaces by Belinda Daou is a beautifully written collection of poems spanning themes of heartbreak, trauma, and self-reflection. Anyone who had to question their worth, why they weren’t enough, or has prayed to the stars above to mend a fractured heart can take solace in Daou’s words and know they are not alone in these waves of emotion.  Breathe in a menagerie of feelings as…

When society has already marked you as an outsider, coming out of the closet is only the beginning of the work many queer people are forced to do. We are also forced to learn our own value in a world where heteronormativity is treated as the default, and to figure out how to conduct relationships we were never given models for. Many of these struggles are at the heart of Brooks Kolb’s new memoir…