Jessica Stein

1 month ago | indypendent.org | Jessica Stein |Amba Guerguerian |Molly Landreth

In these fascist times, you may find yourself craving community, but wary of repeating unhealthy patterns in your dating life, friendship circles and activist groups. Thank goodness for Dean Spade’s new book, Love in a Fucked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together. Spade has been an activist and author for 20-plus years, most notably founding the Sylvia Rivera Law Project for trans advocacy.

Nov 26, 2024 | indypendent.org | Jessica Stein |Amba Guerguerian |Lynne Foster

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs is not a biography. Well, it’s not only a biography. This may disappoint readers who, like me, were excited to hear about this hefty tome touted as the first new biography in 20 years of the legendary “Black lesbian feminist poet warrior mother,” as Lorde liked to identify herself.

Nov 26, 2024 | indypendent.org | Jessica Stein |Amba Guerguerian |Lynne Foster

Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs is not a biography. Well, it’s not only a biography. This may disappoint readers who, like me, were excited to hear about this hefty tome touted as the first new biography in 20 years of the legendary “Black lesbian feminist poet warrior mother,” as Lorde liked to identify herself.

Mar 5, 2024 | lgbtqnation.com | Jessica Stein

The following is an excerpt from “Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography” by Jessica Max Stein (Rutgers University Press). By summer 1985, [Richard] Hunt and his boyfriend Kenneth “Nelson” Bird fought constantly, with Hunt riled up and railing against Bird’s maddening implacable calm. Hunt felt betrayed by Bird’s trips to the baths, afraid that they were both in danger. The couple seemed about to split, with Bird on his way out.

Oct 2, 2023 | portside.org | Jessica Stein

Hellen Keller’s Forgotten Radicalism Published October 1, 2023 In December 2020, over 50 years after Helen Keller’s death, the renowned deafblind woman became ensnared in controversy, as she often had in life. “Helen Keller is not radical at all,” Black disability-rights activist Anita Cameron told Time magazine.