The Geeks OUT Blog
Enjoy our extensive catalogue of geeky media coverage with an eye towards the LGBTQ+ community. Our editors strive to provide a diverse range of topics, genres, figures, and perspectives just for you.
Interview with Rose Sutherland, Author of A Sweet Sting of Salt
Born and raised a voracious reader of anything she could get her hands on in rural Nova Scotia, Rose Sutherland has an overactive imagination and once fell off the roof of her house trying to re-enact Anne of Green Gables. She's continued to be entertainingly...
Queer Creator Spotlight: Graphic Novelist, Jonah Newman
Greetings All, Chris Allo here with another queer creator spotlight this time with Graphic novelist-Jonah Newman Jonah is a cartoonist and editor. As an editor at Graphix, Scholastic's graphic novel imprint, he has worked with Dav Pilkey, Jamar Nicholas, Angeli...
Rebelle Re-views: Darkwing Duck
Our current cultural landscape loves a reboot. One 90’s nostalgia fan favorite that’s been in and out of the headlines for the past few years is Darkwing Duck. The “terror that flaps in the night” has been perpetually making a comeback, whether it’s been talks since...
Interview with Crimson Chains, Creator of Star Crossed
Crimson Chains is a self-taught artist who has always loved to create comics and stories. Star themes and aesthetics are some of her favorite things to create, and Star Crossed is her first published work. I had the opportunity to interview Crimson, which you can read...
Interview with F.T. Lukens, Author of Otherworldly
F.T. Lukens (they/them) is a New York Times bestselling author of YA speculative fiction including the novels Spell Bound, So This Is Ever After and In Deeper Waters (2022 ALA Rainbow Booklist; Junior Library Guild Selection) as well as other science fiction and...
Interview with Dane Liu, Author of LaoLao’s Dumplings
Dane Liu believes in the power of stories to affirm, transport, and transform. Her debut for young readers FRIENDS ARE FRIENDS, FOREVER is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, a Kids Indie Next Pick, and a Best Book of the Year from the Bulletin of the...
Geeks OUT Highlights Ace Authors For International Asexuality Day
Today, April 6th is International Asexuality Day. To quote directly from their website, "IAD is a coordinated worldwide campaign promoting the ace umbrella, including demisexual, grey-asexual, and other ace identities." We put together a round up of ace authors we...
Interview with Yilin Wang, Author of The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation
YILIN WANG 王艺霖 (she/they) is a writer, a poet, and Chinese-English translator. Her writing has appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, The Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, The Ex-Puritan, The Toronto Star, The Tyee, Words Without Borders, and elsewhere. She is the...
Dungeons, Drag Queens, D20: A Journey to the Underworld
Just in Case Disclaimer: This is a post about stars from RuPaul's Drag Race appearing on an independent channel where comedians play RPGs. In case you did not realize this already, the language and references can get salty. Have you watched all of Critical Role and...
Interview with Michael Paramo, Author of Ending the Pursuit: Asexuality, Aromanticism and Agender Identity
Michael Paramo is a Xicanx researcher, writer, poet, and artist born and raised in the suburbs of southern California (on Tongva land) in a Mexican-American family. They created AZE in 2016, a platform that publishes the writing and artwork of asexual, aromantic, and...