LGBTQIA+ essays – Equal Opportunity Reader

[REVIEW] Another Appalachia: Growing Up Queer and Indian In a Mountain Place, by Neema Avashia

The paperback of Anofher Appalachia rests against a potted plant. The cover depicts an Indian family sitting in front of a clapboard house.

(You can purchase this book ethically here.) 2 minutes read time In the 1970s, a handful of Indian scientists signed contracts for good jobs at West Virginian chemical plants. As people do, they settled down and had children, including Neema Avashia. Like many children of immigrants, Neema’s identity ia a bit fractal. For every all-AmericanContinue reading “[REVIEW] Another Appalachia: Growing Up Queer and Indian In a Mountain Place, by Neema Avashia”

[BOOKLIST] Pride Month Reads 2020: A Wrap-Up and Booklist

Happy Pride Month, fellow readers! The genesis of LGBTQIA+ Pride is a long story that begins before the 1969 Stonewall riots and still continues today. Notably, in 1970 a bisexual woman named Brenda Howard first proposed a planned Pride march to celebrate and take joy in queer identities and the rest is history. I’m notContinue reading “[BOOKLIST] Pride Month Reads 2020: A Wrap-Up and Booklist”

[REVIEW] Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby⠀(Buy it HERE.)⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2 out of 5 stars.⠀ “I can’t watch This Is Us because even though the brothers are hot and the dad is a smoke show, in the first couple of episodes the fat girl doesn’t get to be much more than “fat”, and wow, no thank you!”Continue reading “[REVIEW] Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby”