Sarah Fonseca is a writer, editor, and film programmer based in New York City who has dispatched from Cannes, New York Film Festival, and Sundance. With one eye on queer cinema history and the other on its future potential, Sarah has contributed a volume of interviews, reviews, and critical essays to LGBT and mainstream film publications including Condé Nast’s them, The Advocate, Film Comment, and Museum of the Moving Image’s Reverse Shot. She has also published short fiction with Evergreen Review, Bosie Magazine, Cleis Press, and Math Magazine. Currently, Sarah is pursuing graduate studies in history at The City College of New York and printed matter studies at UCLA’s California Rare Book School. Find her at [...] and [...].

Octavia Saenz (she/they) is an editor and cartoonist based in El Paso, TX. She creates speculative fiction and visual narratives about queer life and temporality. Octavia grew up in Puerto Rico and has a BFA in Creative Writing and Illustration from Ringling College, as well as a Lambda Fellowship. Find her on Twitter and Instagram [...]

Trish Bendix is a GLAAD-nominated writer and regular contributor to the New York Times. Her book Sappho Was a Pop Star is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press in 2027.

Table of Contents:

Women’s Work

1. Lillian James - “Smoke and the Sea Breeze”

2. Nadine Santoro - “Jouissance”

3. Rose Bostwick - “Revenge of the Bodykill Snatchers”

4. Anna Dorn - “Palm Desert”

5. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney - “A Parlor Game”

Coming of Rage

1. Alice Dunbar Nelson - “Natalie”

2. Astrid Anne Rose - “Girl in the Slayer Jacket”

3. Sarah Schulman - “New York City, 1967”

4. Ella Boureau - “Cottonmouth"

Best You Never Had

1. Lorraine Hansberry “Chanson du Konallis”

2. M.J. Corey - “Rebound”

3. Shamim Sharif - “Notes in a Minor Key”

4. Grace Byron - “Rookie Mistake”

5. Trae Higgs - “pH”

Some Like It Fraught

1. Eve Adams - “Diana Thornton”

2. August Clarke - “Pale Horse”

3. Octavia Saenz - “Catacomb Voice”

4. Dora Rosetti - “The Perfect Pair”

5. Rose Bostwick - “In Asbestos”

6. Sarah Fonseca - "Honestly"