Interview with Melissa Iwai, Author of Dumplings for Lili

Melissa Iwai is an award-winning author/illustrator of over thirty picture books, including Soup Day, Pizza Day, Dumplings for Lili, which is a Crystal Kite Award winner and Bank Street Best Book. Her I Can Read Series, Gigi and Ojiji, is...
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Interview with Jen Ferguson, Author of A Constellation of Minor Bears

Jen Ferguson is Michif/Métis and white, an activist, an intersectional feminist, an auntie, and an accomplice armed with a PhD in English and creative writing. Her debut novel The Summer of Bitter and Sweet was the winner of the Governor General’s Award, a Stonewall...
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Space is Gay! A Look at Anxious Gretchen: Space Archaeologist

Gretchen started her day as the TA for Introduction to Archeology, supervising her grumpy, hungover undergrads, who she is sure hate her, although maybe that's her anxiety disorder, on a field visit to the former colony of Avalon in Newfoundland- but ends up having a...
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Interview with Ruth Behar, Author of Across So Many Seas

Ruth Behar, the Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Lucky Broken Girl and Letters from Cuba, was born in Havana, Cuba, grew up in New York, and has also lived in Spain and Mexico. Her work also includes poetry, memoir, and the acclaimed travel books An Island Called...
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IRON CIRCUS’ PERFECT CRIME PARTY COMICS ANTHOLOGY GOES LIVE

For immediate release: PERFECT CRIME PARTY is A Comics Anthology Packed With 25 Light-Hearted Tales of Criminal Activity, Featuring 40+ Creators And A Cover by Jeff Smith Available Via Backerkit From Award-Winning Publisher Iron Circus (August 26, 2024) Spike...
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Rebelle Interviews: Writer and Editor Greg Lockard

Writer and editor Greg Lockard is bringing the heat this Pride with a new graphic novel, Trick Pony. A universe away from his GLAAD Media Awards nominated and New York Times celebrated Liebestrasse set in Nazi-era Germany, this time Lockard, with artist Anna David and...
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The Geeks OUT Podcast: X-Megami ’97

In this very special episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin is joined by the "Cosplay Queen of NYC" and the lip sync assassin assassin of Rupaul's Drag Race season 16, who will also be a special guest at this year's Flame Con, and the host of the afterparty The...
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Interview with Amber Chen, Author of Of Jade and Dragons

by | February 19, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments

Amber Chen is a Singaporean-Chinese author of SFF and contemporary fiction. She spends much of her free time living within Chinese fantasy novels and dramas and also drinks one too many cups of bubble tea. One of her webnovels, The Cutting Edge, has been adapted for...
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Interview with Ashley Wilda, Author of The Night Fox

by | February 14, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments

Ashley Wilda has an MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. In addition to writing, she loves painting, making ceramics, playing music, rock climbing, and hiking with her husband, Ethan, and rescue pup, Phoenix. I...
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Interview with Kamilah Cole, Author of This Ends in Embers

by | February 12, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments

Kamilah Cole is a national bestselling, Dragon Award-nominated Jamaican-American author. She worked as a writer and entertainment editor at Bustle for four years, and her nonfiction has appeared in Marie Claire and Seventeen. A graduate of New York University, Kamilah...
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The Geeks OUT Podcast: X-Megami ’97

by | June 7, 2024 | Featured, Podcast | 0 Comments

In this very special episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin is joined by the "Cosplay Queen of NYC" and the lip sync assassin assassin of Rupaul's Drag Race season 16, who will also be a special guest at this year's Flame Con, and the host of the afterparty The...
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The Geeks OUT Podcast: X-Meh From the Ashes

by | March 24, 2024 | Podcast | 0 Comments

In this episode of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin is joined by GLAAD Media Award winning artist, D.J. Kirkland, as they discuss drag queen vampire slayers in the trailer for Slay, breakdown the reaction to the X-Men's post-Krakoan Age reboot, celebrate the DC Pride...
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The Geeks OUT Podcast: Daddy Fantastic

by | February 22, 2024 | Podcast | 0 Comments

In the return of the Geeks OUT Podcast, Kevin is joined by Ian Carlos Crawford, as they discuss the newly announced cast of Marvel's Fantastic Four, the trailers for Deadpool & Wolverine and X-Men '97, realize we're part of the 1-in-5 gamers who are queer, and...
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