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 Maia Kobabe and Dr. Sarah Peitzmeier, Creators of BREATHE: Journeys to Healthy Binding
Maia Kobabe (e/eir/em) is author of the award-winning and bestselling memoir Gender Queer, the most banned book in America for the last two years. E and eir work has been featured in Time, NPR, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and many other outlets. Kobabe...
Interview with Andrea Tsurumi, Author and Illustrator of Accident! and Crab Cake
Andrea Tsurumi (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based children’s book author, illustrator andcartoonist. Their books include Accident!, Crab Cake, I’m On It!, and they’ve illustrated Mr.Watson’s Chickens, Sharko & Hippo, and the Kondo & Kezumi series, among other...
Interview with Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of The Siren, the Song, and the Spy
Maggie Tokuda-Hall has an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco and a strong cake-decorating game. She is the author of the young adult novel The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea, an indie bestseller and recipient of the Northern California Book...
Geeks OUT 12th Anniversary Conversation w/ our Co-Founders
Discover the Geeks OUTS origin story and learn about the beginnings of the world’s largest and longest-running LGBTQ+ comics and pop culture convention, Flame Con! Watch (or listen!) to our conversation between our Co-Founders Joey Stern and Josh Siegel,...
Interview with Alexene Farol Follmuth, Author of Twelfth Knight
Alexene Farol Follmuth is a first-generation American, a romance enthusiast, and a lover and writer of stories. Alexene has penned a number of adult SFF projects under the name Olivie Blake, including the webtoon Clara and the Devil with illustrator Little Chmura and...
Interview with Temim Fruchter, Author of City of Laughter
Temim Fruchter is a queer nonbinary anti-Zionist Jewish writer who lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland, and is the recipient of fellowships from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Vermont Studio Center, and a...
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...