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.
Review: The Red Threads of Fortune
The Red Threads of Fortune by nonbinary queer Singaporean author JY Yang picks up four years after the events of The Black Tides of Heaven and centers on the prophetic twin Mokoya. Where Black Tides was a coming-of-age story that takes place over several years, Red...
A Queer Geek Guide to SDCC 2018
San Diego Comic-Con is Thursday, July 19 to Sunday, July 22, and we’ve compiled a comprehensive guide to queer and geeky panels and events you won’t want to miss, so join us for another long weekend of Clif Bars, queues, and cosplay! Thursday, July 19 Diversity...
Interview: Mackenzi Lee
Mackenzi Lee uses her BA in history and her MFA in writing in increasingly engaging ways: after writing This Monstrous Thing, her Gothic fantasy retelling of Frankenstein, and her New York Times bestseller The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue, she published Bygone...
Mutant & Magical Boy—Episode 09: And I’ll Form the Head
https://soundcloud.com/mutant_magicalboy_podcast/mutant_magicalboy_episode_9 Welcome to episode 9 of Mutant & Magical Boy: The AfroQueer Guide to Pop Culture! There's no shortage of thunder cats in this episode as we gag on all things Voltron. Featuring special...
Everything is a Mess Right Now and We Need Queer Content
Pride is about celebrating where we come from, who we are and what we could be. Storytelling is a way we can explore ourselves and our community. Queer content exists, but need more of our stories told. More comics, more television, more movies, more music. If it...
Interview: Erica Friedman
Erica Friedman is the Founder of Yuricon, a celebration of yuri (lesbian-themed) anime and manga held in New Jersey from 2003 to 2007 that now exists as an online entity, as well as the founder of ALC Publishing. She describes herself as an LGBTQ and Geek Marketing...
Review: Picnic at Hanging Rock
This twisty mystery could be your next obsession. Amazon's miniseries Picnic at Hanging Rock is an adaptation of the Joan Lindsay novel (previously adapted into what has become a cult film directed by Peter Weir) about the mysterious disappearance of a group of girls...
Review: Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley, my favorite feature from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival (and now available to stream), casts an electrifying Elle Fanning as the woman who invented science fiction with the classic novel Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. Mary’s been portrayed on...
Review: The Cardboard Kingdom
You're not going to want to miss The Cardboard Kingdom, the new anthology-style graphic novel by Chad Sell. The listed age recommendation for Middle Grade is 8–12, but I read the book with my six-year-old, and he was just as enthralled as I was—which is no easy feat!...
The Last of Us Part II Trailer Is a Big F*cking Deal
Everyone was excited to see what new information we’d get about the Last of Us Part II at E3, and I was certainly not disappointed. Yes, we didn’t get a release date, but what we got will hopefully sustain us until the game actually comes out. ...