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 author Jen Ferguson
Jen Ferguson (she/her) is Métis and white, an activist, a feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice with a PhD. She believes writing, teaching and beading are political acts. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, her debut YA novel, is out now from Heartdrum/HarperCollins. She...
Interview with And Tango Makes Three Authors
Florida’s new law, to take effect in July, prohibits classroom “discussion” and “instruction" about “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” in grades K-3, as well as any discussion or instruction about these topics that would be considered not age appropriate in...
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2022
May marks Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Heritage Month. It’s a month to celebrate and honor AAPI voices and identities around the world. In order to help celebrate this month, we’d like to highlight a number of Michele Kirichanskaya‘s interviews she’s...
Interview with writer Rex Ogle
With the graphic novel "Blink" from Tapas Media to "The Supernatural Society" from Harper Collings, Rex has written dozens of books and graphic novels for the YA audience! In his very candid and critically acclaimed memoir, "Free Lunch", he talks about the rigors of...
Interview with Author Natalia Sylvester
Natalia Sylvester is the author of Running, her YA debut, as well as two novels for adults. Born in Lima, Peru, she grew up in Miami, Central Florida, and South Texas, and received a BFA from the University of Miami. She currently lives in Austin, Texas. Follow her on...
Interview with Author Dean Atta
Dean Atta is a British author from London. He is a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and a patron of LGBT+ History Month. His young-adult novel in verse, THE BLACK FLAMINGO (Hachette Children’s Group / Balzer + Bray), won the 2020 Stonewall Book Award and was...
FlameCast – E10 – Mike Curato
https://youtu.be/97Tg687Vhyg It's a new episode of the Flame Cast, our celebration of past, present, and future Flame Con guests. Join Kevin in a conversation with Mike Curato, writer and illustrator of the YA graphic novel Flamer, about the importance of books geared...
Interview with author SJ Sindu
SJ Sindu is the author of the novel Marriage of a Thousand Lies, which won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and was an ALA Stonewall Honor Book; as well as the hybrid fiction and nonfiction...
Interview with the “Shuri and T’Challa: Into the Heartlands” Creative Team
Shuri and T'Challa set out to remove a curse from Wakanda in an action-packed, totally original Black Panther graphic novel, Shuri and T’Challa: Into the Heartlands available now! The creative team includes Roseanne A. Brown, Natacha Bustos, Dika Araújo, and Claudia...
Interview with Author Shveta Thakrar
Shveta Thakrar was one of the inaugural Walter Dean Myers grant recipients of 2015 and has been a shining mainstay in fantasy, appearing on conference panels since 2010. She has had fiction published in Uncanny Magazine, Faerie Magazine, and forthcoming from...