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This almanac highlights incredible acts of defiance in the face of power and shows us all on whose shoulders we stand.”. In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime– be it unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

She has a bad experience with laser hair removal and is unable to get her complaint resolved, so, naturally, she begins phoning hoax bomb threats to the laser clinic and the businesses located nearby. This story was due months before the country started to be dismantled from the top by rapist death-obsessed kleptomaniacal oligarchs but the same was true then.

Dedicated to their friends among the dead, this pocket edition is a necromantic mirror, an encrypted message to old loves, and an invitation to those finding these words for the first time. Comp-het and Catholicism really did a one-two punch on me, and it took me decades to fully come out. Check out Be Gay, Do Crime - A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a.

I saw heterosexuality as the only social safety net women have in America. In it, Myriam and Allison find a baby in an alley, and against all odds build a chaotic and beautiful life. Buy it: Bookshop Amazon. In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

How It Works Out was inspired by a list of possibilities I wrote in my first queer relationship, back when queerness felt like a sexy and divine revelation. How It Works Out is a multiverse novel in which each chapter offers an alternate outcome to the relationship between Myriam and Allison. I want to be in the fight and also I feel so hopeless: the law is designed to protect the rich—the landlords, the developers.

Just yesterday, my friend in Ohio who has read this story sent me a flyer to pitch in to help families in a unit Echo Park bungalow complex keep their homes of decades. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime-unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime—unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small. And I love a group crime, a queer collaboration. My story is about a trans woman who is very early in her transition and working a dead-end desk job not unlike the one I was working in when I was early in mine.

Be Gay, Do Crime explores the strategic use of arrests and police violence as tools to suppress individuals who bravely refused to go back into the closet. I listened to a podcast about a female bank robber who robbed banks for fun, and it made it seem really easy and possible to rob banks. Be Gay, Do Crime explores the strategic use of arrests and police violence as tools to suppress individuals who bravely refused to go back into the closet.

She gets an enormous thrill out of the power it gives her, at a time when she feels very isolated living with only her cat for company. Where would everyone go? In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime-unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime– be it unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small. So I think a lot about straight-passing privilege, and transactional straight performativity. I wanted to write a story that imagined renters and queer people and POC and longterm inhabitants of the neighborhood winning.

A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company. I felt scared and angry and powerless and those feelings engendered this crime fantasy. In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

This almanac highlights incredible acts of defiance in the face of power and shows us all on whose shoulders we stand.”.