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The story deals with being discouraged as a kid, seeing the specialness in others, learning from an old lesbian, and wanting better for younger generations. And I love a group crime, a queer collaboration. This story was due months before the country started to be dismantled from the top by rapist death-obsessed kleptomaniacal oligarchs but the same was true then.

Check out Be Gay, Do Crime - A follow-up to their runaway success Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women, editors Molly Llewellyn and Kristel Buckley return with Be Gay, Do Crime, a celebration of queer chaos from an all-queer author lineup featuring Myriam Gurba, Emily Austin, Alissa Nutting, and Francesca Ekwuyasi A trans woman makes increasingly frequent hoax calls to a.

Among the discordant chorus of anons who penned the defining texts of the queer anarchist network Bash Back!, none was more fervent in its glorification of criminal desire, decadent hedonism, and social undoing than the Milwaulkee-based Mary Nardini Gang. I wanted to write a story that imagined renters and queer people and POC and longterm inhabitants of the neighborhood winning.

I saw heterosexuality as the only social safety net women have in America. Just yesterday, my friend in Ohio who has read this story sent me a flyer to pitch in to help families in a unit Echo Park bungalow complex keep their homes of decades. In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime–unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

Comp-het and Catholicism really did a one-two punch on me, and it took me decades to fully come out. So I think a lot about straight-passing privilege, and transactional straight performativity. In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime– be it unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

How It Works Out was inspired by a list of possibilities I wrote in my first queer relationship, back when queerness felt like a sexy and divine revelation. In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime-unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small.

My story is about a trans woman who is very early in her transition and working a dead-end desk job not unlike the one I was working in when I was early in mine. When she wins a trip to a beaver-themed, Great Wolf Lodge — esque hotel, she confronts her past disappointments.

It was inspired by one of my childhood memories. I listened to a podcast about a female bank robber who robbed banks for fun, and it made it seem really easy and possible to rob banks. This almanac highlights incredible acts of defiance in the face of power and shows us all on whose shoulders we stand.”.

She has a bad experience with laser hair removal and is unable to get her complaint resolved, so, naturally, she begins phoning hoax bomb threats to the laser clinic and the businesses located nearby. She gets an enormous thrill out of the power it gives her, at a time when she feels very isolated living with only her cat for company.

In it, Myriam and Allison find a baby in an alley, and against all odds build a chaotic and beautiful life. Mary Nardini Gang Be Gay Do Crime An Introduction Elements of this introduction were presented at the North American Anarchist Studies Network.

Buy it: Bookshop Amazon. As the president prepares to give a speech, two women lurk among the journalists, ready to shoot him. While Myriam and Allison are introduced as the idealist and naive weirdos they are, and while the world around them is full of dark realities, they laugh and fuck their way through it, making art and breaking rules and primal screaming at the ceiling in all-gold outfits.

In sixteen brilliant, wild-eyed stories, Be Gay, Do Crime delivers a celebration and reckoning of why queer people turn to crime—unintentionally, as a means of survival, as protest, as rescue, or to right injustices big and small. Be Gay, Do Crime explores the strategic use of arrests and police violence as tools to suppress individuals who bravely refused to go back into the closet.

I want to be in the fight and also I feel so hopeless: the law is designed to protect the rich—the landlords, the developers. I felt scared and angry and powerless and those feelings engendered this crime fantasy. Where would everyone go? A group of aging queers turns to bank robbery to stop the sale of their bungalow complex to a development company.

How It Works Out is a multiverse novel in which each chapter offers an alternate outcome to the relationship between Myriam and Allison.