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 Johanna Taylor, Creator of The Ghostkeeper
Johanna Taylor is an illustrator, concept artist with a BFA in Animation and graphic novelist based in Salt Lake City. She is passionate about tabletop RPGs, and comics, exploring topics of mental health through storytelling. Johanna also enjoys video games and...
Interview with Kayla Cottingham, Author of My Dearest Darkest
Kayla Cottingham is a YA author and librarian. Originally from Salt Lake City, Utah, Kayla lives just outside of Boston where she loves to go hiking in the woods, pet any and all dogs, and play RPGs. She is passionate about connecting young people with books featuring...
Interview with Wen-yi Lee, Author of The Dark We Know
Wen-yi Lee is a Clarion West alum from Singapore who likes writing about girls with bite, feral nature, and ghosts. Her speculative fiction has appeared in venues such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Uncanny, as well as in various anthologies. The Dark We Know is...
Interview with Sonderfairy, Creator of The Moth Prince
Ren Cox, also known as 'sonderfairy', is a self-taught artist and webcomic creator from Texas. He loves fantasy stories, drawing, and most importantly his cat, Badger. As a trans (FTM), asexual, and panromantic queer person, Ren hopes to inspire others like him with...
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...
Interview with Wendy Martin, Creator of Castle Swimmer
Wendy Martin was born in the Midwest and grew up in Iowa. She spent her childhood raising animals, but she spent even more time drawing them. As she grew older, she dedicated more time to the arts and creating fantasy comics and stories, particularly ones that...
Interview with Cameron Mukwa, Creator of The Ribbon Skirt
Cameron Mukwa is a two-spirit Anishinaabe cartoonist, illustrator, and children's educator whose portfolio of work is dedicated to showcasing Indigenous and transgender joy. The Ribbon Skirt is his first graphic novel. I had the opportunity to interview Cameron, which...
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...
Interview with Chloe O. Davis, The Queens’ English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
Chloe O. Davis is an author who works in the entertainment industry in New York. A graduate of Hampton University and Temple University, she has centered her creative platform on amplifying the narratives of Black culture and heightening the awareness of the LGBTQIA+...
Interview with Elwin Cotman, Author of Weird Black Girls
Elwin Cotman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the post-industrial landscape greatly influenced his love for myth and adventure. He is the author of three prior collections of speculative short stories: The Jack Daniels Sessions EP, Hard Times Blues,...