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Krista Kim, the creator of Mars House, who came into the NFT space in 2020, describes her record-breaking sale as a demonstration of a near future where art will be displayed as virtual 3D pieces, sold in order to be projected in homes and outdoor spaces, or even made to float in the sky.“Mars House is a sneak peek into the future, as the first 3D digital home that can be experienced as an immersive experience in augmented reality,” says Kim. “Artists are expressing what it means to be human in the digital age through NFTs. Soon we will adorn our lives with NFT art, fashion, poetry, music, collectibles, and interactive experiences using A.R. technology.”The sale is a harbinger for additional reasons as well. In the last few months, the internet has been buzzing nonstop about non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs. But what are they? Basically, an NFT is a unit of data representing a unique asset—such as an art, music, or video file—that can be traded like any other piece of property, only in this case, they’re bought and sold in a non-tangible form. The seller puts a single, original piece up for sale in a process called minting, and the buyer gets exclusive proof of ownership through the NFT. Anyone could take screenshots, download or create copies of the item, but the original file remains the only valuable piece, because it’s represented by the non-fungible token that can be tracked on a digital ledger known as the blockchain.Although the decentralized NFT marketplace gives artists equal and direct access to collectors, most of the artists making the biggest sales on the market are predominantly male.Like Kim, a number of women are successfully carving out a niche in the exploding NFT art scene. Still, as the market has grown, the trend of male dominance has also become more apparent. Although the decentralized NFT marketplace gives artists equal and direct access to collectors, side-stepping some of the traditional barriers that have historically disadvantaged female artists, most of the artists making the biggest sales on the market are predominantly male. Digital artist Beeple’s piece Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for almost $70 million. Pixelated cartoon characters called CryptoPunks, created by Larva Labs cofounders John Watkinson and Matt Hall, are going for as high as $7.5 million. The Nyan Cat meme, created by Chris Torres, made about $590,000 when it was auctioned off.“What I’ve noticed in the NFT world is that a lot of the top artists are men, especially on exclusive platforms that are application-based,” says Isabel Malia, a photographer and 2D hand-drawn animator who came into the NFT space recently. “Historically, opportunities in tech have been kept from women. I do see women in the industry, but it seems like other men hold off on sharing and supporting artists that aren’t men,” she adds.According to the graphic designer and digital artist Alycia Rainaud, who goes by Maalavidaa, the lack of inclusivity in the art market as a whole has also become part of the NFT industry. “Identifying as female might come with a cost in pretty much all industries, and the NFT space is no stranger to such phenomena,” she says. “It’s no secret that the industry has a huge male presence that makes it more difficult for females to be seen, to be heard, and for their work to prevail.”“It seems that women are having a hard time being represented and valorized across the NFT landscape.”“From my perspective and understanding, it seems that women are having a hard time being represented and valorized across the NFT landscape,” Maalavidaa explains. “A number of females in the space have reported being concerned about how few of us have been given the opportunity to access curated platforms.” There is a noticeably lower percentage of women and minorities involved in the community, as opposed to male representation. Already, research shows that women make up only about 15% of crypto users. The effect of this exclusion could be long-lasting, preventing women or other minorities from getting into this field. “With little or no representation” says Malia, “I’m sure a lot of women and other minorities feel overwhelmed and discouraged to try.”But as more artists transition into the NFT industry, women are creating communities to advocate for gender inclusivity by amplifying and promoting art by artists who identify as women. One of such communities is Women of Crypto Art (WOCA), which was formed in 2020 by NFT artists and collectors Etta Tottie, Angie Taylor, Stina Jones, GiselXFlorez, and Sparrow. WOCA welcomes women from all over the world to come together and share ideas on all things crypto art, and encourages collectors and supporters of women in the industry to join the community, regardless of gender identity. The group plans to experiment with multiple avenues of autonomy for women in the NFT space and provide a safe space to learn blockchain/crypto art dynamics, while communicating in multiple languages.“We recently obtained our own parcel of land in Cryptovoxels,” says GiselXFlorez, an experimental still life digital artist and a cofounder of WOCA. Cryptovoxels is a virtual world where users can buy land to build stores and art galleries. The group is building a WOCA museum, which will house a collection of the best in women’s crypto art. “The first exhibition, titled ‘She Art,’ took place in the Cryptovoxels metaverse in September 2020, and featured crypto art from over 30 women,” says GiselXFlorez. “It was a huge success, and created a stir in the crypto art community with over 1,000 visitors attending.” In addition to this, WOCA recently launched a website to showcase art created by women, and applied to speak at events like NFT NYC, a leading annual event for crypto artists, collectors, and investors, where only about 20% of applicants speaking are women. The community is also on a mission to train traditional artists on how to transition into the crypto art market.For new artists, the fast-paced, evolving world of NFT art can be a tough space to navigate, and without a community to offer emotional support, it tends to feel isolating. To provide a safe and inclusive space, Maalavidaa created Heal the Deal in January. This community hosts weekly clubhouse sessions on crypto art and NFTs, and welcomes artists, newcomers, and collectors to reach out to gain or offer support. “We’ve been compiling more and more resources on NFT support, mental health care, and charities,” she explains. “From technical knowledge to meditation and social causes, Heal the Deal aims to spread as much positivity as possible, radiating in all social fields.”According to Kim, the NFT market holds endless possibilities for creatives. “With greater adoption,” she says, “NFTs have the potential to create a new cultural renaissance.” In this new, evolving phase in the digital age, there’s a price tag on everything: Memes, tweets, Instagram posts, and even music can be bought and resold. Many skeptics believe it’s only a passing phase, but for some creatives, NFTs represent a better future where they can sell their work to eager collectors independently, and receive royalties upon future resales. With the efforts of communities like WOCA and Heal the Deal, other female artists can be encouraged to sell their work digitally and become part of the moment. Queer life in 2021 is as wide-ranging as it’s ever been, encompassing parties, protests, and, occasionally, sitting down with an iced coffee and a great book. There’s a breadth of exciting, new queer writing coming out this year—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and beyond—that makes for great reading any time of the year (and not just Pride Month, ahem). Below, find nine of the books by LGBTQ+ authors, including Sarah Schulman, Melissa Febos, Jasmine Mans, and many more, that we can’t wait to read.Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad (March 1)In this memoir, writer Hari Ziyad recounts their origin as one of 19 children raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father; they also skillfully narrate their experience of growing up Black and queer in Cleveland, as well as their coming of age in New York City. Their story is often painful, but it’s full of joy too, and it offers readers a new script for pushing beyond racial and gender binaries.untold: defining moments of the uprooted edited by Gabrielle Deonath and Kamini Ramdeen (March 2)This anthology from Brown Girl Magazine compiles the voices of 32 writers who explore myriad facets of the South Asian experience in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, from immigration and mental health to sexual orientation and gender identity. With a powerful foreword penned by Born Confused author Tanuja Desai Hidier, this wide-ranging collection of deeply human experiences is not to be missed.Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (March 9)Spoken-word poet Jasmine Mans’s gift with words is nothing short of sublime, and the territory she explores in this poetry collection—from waiting for her mother to get home from work and do her hair as a child in Newark to coming into her full as a young, queer Black woman—couldn’t be more necessary.Sarahland by Sam Cohen (March 9)This short-story collection revolves around a clutch of women named Sarah looking for themselves across a wide range of milieus, from a primarily Jewish college dorm and a rich necrophiliac’s apartment to a fan-fiction site and somewhere beyond the earth itself. It’s an ambitious work, to be sure, but the structural leaps it takes are more than earned, and Cohen’s prose is something to be celebrated all on its own.Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (March 9)True-crime fans will appreciate this staggering nonfiction work by Elon Green, which tells the story of the Last Call Killer, a serial murderer who preyed upon gay men in New York in the ’80s and ’90s and was able to have his crimes all but forgotten in no small part thanks to America’s deeply ingrained legacy of homophobia.Girlhood by Melissa Febos (March 30)Her whole life, writer Melissa Febos has been forced to understand her body primarily through other people’s conceptions of it. If that sounds familiar to you, Girlhood—a mix of investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship around what it truly means to be a young woman—might be right up your alley. (And if you’re a parent struggling to understand what your teenage daughter is going through, it’s safe to say this book might help.)The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (May 4)Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel (yes, she of the Bechdel Test) changed the landscape of queer comics forever with 2007’s Fun Home, and now she’s back with a new graphic memoir of her lifelong obsession with exercise. Fitness fads from Jack LaLanne to the aughts cult of spin class are set against Bechdel’s continual quest to get stronger and take up more space in the world; the book is hilarious, but it’s moving too.Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (May 11)Adding to the queer graphic-novel canon is Lee Lai’s beautifully drawn and emotionally resonant debut, which revolves around two self-described “weirdo aunties,” Bron and Ray, taking care of their six-year-old niece while attempting to heal fraught sibling bonds in the process. Faith, family, gender, romantic love, and the difficulties of truly knowing another person (even if they happened to be related to you) are on full display in Stone Fruit, to great effect.Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman (May 18)Sarah Schulman is widely known as the author of 2016’s Conflict Is Not Abuse, but in Let The Record Show, she returns with an in-depth and fully realized account of the AIDS activist group ACT UP, a collective that ultimately changed the faces of both medicine and history. Schulman conducted more than 200 interviews with ACT UP members for the book, and the end result is a text that offers younger queer activists a rare study of their own history.With Teeth by Kristen Arnett (June 1)A mother at her wit’s end is forced to unpack her tenuous bond with her wife and son in this chilling, oddly relatable queer family novel set in central Florida. The time jumps in With Teeth are beautifully executed, leaving the reader with endless questions about what it truly means to share a life with the people you supposedly love.One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (June 1)If you’re in need of a time-traveling queer romance, look no further; in One Last Stop, beleaguered server and student August falls head over heels for sexy, mysterious Jane, whom she meets on the subway. There’s just one problem: Jane is stuck in the 1970s, and it will take all of her and August’s combined ingenuity (plus no small amount of furtive, sweaty summer romance) to set her free.Future Feeling by Joss Lake (June 1)If you’re looking for a book that ties together millennial hustle-culture ennui, magic, trans identity, and influencer culture (plus about a dozen other themes), look no further than Joss Lake’s debut, which is sure to stay on your mind long after you’ve finished the final page.Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer (June 8)Beloved advice columnist J.P. Brammer is perhaps in his finest form in this memoir, which tackles everything from his queer identity to his experience growing up biracial in rural Oklahoma and his initial forays onto the gay dating app Grindr (whence the title of the book sprang).The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc (June 15)It’s hard to think of an endeavor more traditionally gendered than parenting, which makes Krys Malcolm Belc’s memoir of giving birth and raising children as a nonbinary, transmasculine parent all the more necessary. Hopefully, The Natural Mother of the Child will soon be part of wide array of books encouraging us to appreciate family bonds outside the confines of gender norms.Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor (June 22)From the author of the novel Real Life comes a truly unmissable follow-up; this series of linked stories set in the American Midwest flips between subjects abruptly yet carefully, ranging from a young man’s sexual relationship with a pair of dancers to a babysitter’s lament at being responsible for a child who leaves a trail of devastation in her wake. J.P. Brammer was a newly-out-of-the-closet junior in college exploring Grindr when, for the first time in the app, “some white guy greeted me by saying, ‘Hola papi,’” Brammer writes in his memoir, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons. “I’d never really considered myself any kind of ‘papi.’ I was a mixed-race Mexican American with noodle arms who couldn’t legally drink yet. But in the overwhelming influx of everything that came with coming out… I didn’t think too much of it.”Brammer has since reclaimed the pickup line—first (in a full-circle moment) as the title of his satirical advice column for Grindr’s digital magazine Into, and now as the title of his Substack and memoir. The book version of ¡Hola Papi! is a series of essays told in advice columns; at turns hilarious and wrenching looks at Brammer’s upbringing as one of the few gay Mexican-American boys in his rural Oklahoma hometown. “We weren’t just some of the only Mexicans around,” Brammer writes. “We were some of the only people around, period.”One standout query—”¡Hola Papi! How do I overcome my imposter syndrome to live my life as an authentic Latino? Signed, Panicked Hispanic”—inspires a chapter on Brammer’s biracial background, the son of a Mexican mom and a white dad who felt stuck in between identities. Brammer’s maternal grandma grew up poor in a Texas barrio, dropping out of fourth grade to make money picking fruit. “She hadn’t wanted her kids to deal with the things she’d dealt with,” Brammer writes. “The result, Panicked? We all lost Spanish. We lost Christmas tamales. We lost quinceañeras, and we lost the sense that we were from somewhere else, that immutable otherness that separated my abuelos from me—their accents; the way they dressed; the color of their skin; their burdens. My mom, my sister, and I, meanwhile, were Americans with a squeeze of lime.”Other appeals for advice bring Brammer back to the relentless bullying he faced in high school, the fleeting glory at having a girlfriend in a world that desperately wanted him to be straight, and the conundrum of encountering one of said bullies years later on—where else?—Grindr. Vogue spoke with Brammer this week about what qualifies an advice columnist, being called “papi,” and anointing himself the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.”You initially pitched the Grindr column Hola Papi as “Latino Dear Abby huffing poppers.” You made me think about how advice columns like “Dear Abby” and “Dear Ann” were all written from the perspective of this proper, all-knowing person. Did you grow up reading those?Narratively speaking, I think it would be really great if I had been this young gay Chicano in rural America who was just like, ‘God, I want to grow up and be an advice columnist one day.’ The reality is weirder. I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I happened to be living in New York, let go from the company that moved me up there, and I was running low on money, about to have to move back to Oklahoma. That’s when my friend Mathew Rodriguez who worked at Into was like, ‘Hey, do you want to pitch your column for this new site we’re doing?’ I was like, ‘I really need to maximize the number of checks I’m getting out of this company because I need to pay rent.’ But I didn’t trust my brain to come up with something new every week. It turns out there’s this thing called the advice column, where they send you stuff to write about. I’ll name it ‘Hola Papi,’ because that’s what people say to me on the app all the time, and it’ll be a spoof-y advice column. What if Dear Abby was on Grindr?I just love the characterization of you as the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.” Where did that come from?It came from my agent being like, “We have to put a book proposal together.” Young gay boy writers have this glamorous idea of being Carrie Bradshaw, someone who writes once a month and somehow was able to afford an apartment in Manhattan. There’s just something funny about taking this 5’11 heavyset Mexican man—me—and putting it in those pumps.You consider your qualifications to dispense advice upfront in chapter one. You write, “Who am I to tell other people how to live?” But is there an argument for people who are still figuring it out themselves being the best advice-givers of all?One thing I recognized very quickly in writing this column is that my powers begin and end with me being your bestie at the bar. You can talk to me and I’ll talk back, but I’m not like a doctor or a therapist. I went to a state school. The book really is about wrestling with the question of authority. What have I gone through in life? What have I overcome that would lend me the wisdom and experience to help someone else? Each chapter is a really important event. Remember when you overcame bullying? Remember when you were in love with your best friend? I did develop an interest in the advice column’s history and how it has historically been one of the few avenues for women and non-white people to actually make a name for themselves in writing because, people used to see it like, “This deals with emotions and domestic issues and etiquette—that’s women’s work.”You got the line “Hola papi” on Grindr a lot. What did you make of people seeing you that way, when you say that you never really saw yourself as a “papi”?One thing I’ve learned from being on Grindr is that people’s standards for the word “papi” are pretty low. I mean, if you’re calling me “papi” in my twink days, it clearly has nothing to do with me being the muscle-bound Latino that I am today. It’s a narrative they want to apply to someone— “I am looking for a papi online. I have this weird fetish fantasy thing. I’m going to find the first Latino on this app and just apply it to them.” The papi comes before the horse. But I was really interested in this idea of being put in this position that I can’t quite occupy. Like I’m not quite a papi. I’m not quite an advice columnist. I’m not quite a Mexican—the discomfort of sitting with identity. I find it very fruitful for literature, even if it’s not the most comfortable thing in the world to experience.¡Hola Papi! author J.P. Brammer I related so closely to the chapter about not feeling like an authentic Latino, or not feeling Latino enough. It’s such a nuanced and overlooked thing—feeling disconnected from your heritage. For those of us who come from mixed homes, or whose families assimilated in order to make it, who don’t speak Spanish or all of the above, other people may see you as something that you don’t even feel connected to yourself. What made you want to dive into this?The United States is so good at making you feel like you’re other. I don’t think that’s just true for non-white people. I think a lot of people are clawing for something that will help them to find themselves. That can lead to identity crises, and I certainly had ones when I was growing up because I realized that my family didn’t look like the families around me. I didn’t exactly share a lot of the same customs and traditions as my classmates, but I also didn’t share any with people I saw as authentic Latinos. This desire to be authentic, to bring the facts of our lives into more perfect alignment with some sort of script, is really painful. In the chapter where I worked at the tortilla factory, I immersed myself with Chicanos and Mexicans who spoke perfect Spanish, had tattoos all over their bodies and it really didn’t teach me anything other than, you’re actually quite different from these people. You have your own story and you shouldn’t use them to validate who you are.You write that your abuela dropped out of school in fourth grade and grew up poor, and so she raised your mother to assimilate—to not speak Spanish or really hold on to Mexican culture. I’ve always thought about that as a loss, but you’ve written about how the effort to assimilate is as Latino or Latinx as anything.I think that people really underestimate loss as an element of their identity. By its nature, it’s something you don’t have. You can’t turn it over in your hand. It can be a lot harder to look at it and be like, “Actually, the fact that I don’t speak Spanish is a legacy.” It’s not the only legacy for my community, but it’s certainly mine, and it points to very material things. It points to discrimination in hiring practices. It points to racism and xenophobia. These are things that you encounter if you’ve been deemed some sort of other, and for my family who was very poor and had dark brown skin and who were navigating a very segregated Texas at the time, these were decisions they made out of survival.Your abuela was a scene-stealer. She can sniff shame a mile away and she wants to kill all of the characters on her favorite telenovelas. She also seemed like your link to what you thought of as being an “authentic Latino.”In my book, she often serves as the ideal Mexican. At the same time, I feel a little bit disingenuous doing that because one thing I can’t explain is that this woman is just crazy. It’s not like it’s the ethnicity thing. One thing I didn’t get to include in the book was I tried coming out to her one time. I was like, “Abuelita, I’m gay.” And she turned to me and she was like, “Rachel Maddow. That’s a handsome woman, mijo.”This interview has been edited and condensed. 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Krista Kim, the creator of Mars House, who came into the NFT space in 2020, describes her record-breaking sale as a demonstration of a near future where art will be displayed as virtual 3D pieces, sold in order to be projected in homes and outdoor spaces, or even made to float in the sky.“Mars House is a sneak peek into the future, as the first 3D digital home that can be experienced as an immersive experience in augmented reality,” says Kim. “Artists are expressing what it means to be human in the digital age through NFTs. Soon we will adorn our lives with NFT art, fashion, poetry, music, collectibles, and interactive experiences using A.R. technology.”The sale is a harbinger for additional reasons as well. In the last few months, the internet has been buzzing nonstop about non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs. But what are they? Basically, an NFT is a unit of data representing a unique asset—such as an art, music, or video file—that can be traded like any other piece of property, only in this case, they’re bought and sold in a non-tangible form. The seller puts a single, original piece up for sale in a process called minting, and the buyer gets exclusive proof of ownership through the NFT. Anyone could take screenshots, download or create copies of the item, but the original file remains the only valuable piece, because it’s represented by the non-fungible token that can be tracked on a digital ledger known as the blockchain.Although the decentralized NFT marketplace gives artists equal and direct access to collectors, most of the artists making the biggest sales on the market are predominantly male.Like Kim, a number of women are successfully carving out a niche in the exploding NFT art scene. Still, as the market has grown, the trend of male dominance has also become more apparent. Although the decentralized NFT marketplace gives artists equal and direct access to collectors, side-stepping some of the traditional barriers that have historically disadvantaged female artists, most of the artists making the biggest sales on the market are predominantly male. Digital artist Beeple’s piece Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for almost $70 million. Pixelated cartoon characters called CryptoPunks, created by Larva Labs cofounders John Watkinson and Matt Hall, are going for as high as $7.5 million. The Nyan Cat meme, created by Chris Torres, made about $590,000 when it was auctioned off.“What I’ve noticed in the NFT world is that a lot of the top artists are men, especially on exclusive platforms that are application-based,” says Isabel Malia, a photographer and 2D hand-drawn animator who came into the NFT space recently. “Historically, opportunities in tech have been kept from women. I do see women in the industry, but it seems like other men hold off on sharing and supporting artists that aren’t men,” she adds.According to the graphic designer and digital artist Alycia Rainaud, who goes by Maalavidaa, the lack of inclusivity in the art market as a whole has also become part of the NFT industry. “Identifying as female might come with a cost in pretty much all industries, and the NFT space is no stranger to such phenomena,” she says. “It’s no secret that the industry has a huge male presence that makes it more difficult for females to be seen, to be heard, and for their work to prevail.”“It seems that women are having a hard time being represented and valorized across the NFT landscape.”“From my perspective and understanding, it seems that women are having a hard time being represented and valorized across the NFT landscape,” Maalavidaa explains. “A number of females in the space have reported being concerned about how few of us have been given the opportunity to access curated platforms.” There is a noticeably lower percentage of women and minorities involved in the community, as opposed to male representation. Already, research shows that women make up only about 15% of crypto users. The effect of this exclusion could be long-lasting, preventing women or other minorities from getting into this field. “With little or no representation” says Malia, “I’m sure a lot of women and other minorities feel overwhelmed and discouraged to try.”But as more artists transition into the NFT industry, women are creating communities to advocate for gender inclusivity by amplifying and promoting art by artists who identify as women. One of such communities is Women of Crypto Art (WOCA), which was formed in 2020 by NFT artists and collectors Etta Tottie, Angie Taylor, Stina Jones, GiselXFlorez, and Sparrow. WOCA welcomes women from all over the world to come together and share ideas on all things crypto art, and encourages collectors and supporters of women in the industry to join the community, regardless of gender identity. The group plans to experiment with multiple avenues of autonomy for women in the NFT space and provide a safe space to learn blockchain/crypto art dynamics, while communicating in multiple languages.“We recently obtained our own parcel of land in Cryptovoxels,” says GiselXFlorez, an experimental still life digital artist and a cofounder of WOCA. Cryptovoxels is a virtual world where users can buy land to build stores and art galleries. The group is building a WOCA museum, which will house a collection of the best in women’s crypto art. “The first exhibition, titled ‘She Art,’ took place in the Cryptovoxels metaverse in September 2020, and featured crypto art from over 30 women,” says GiselXFlorez. “It was a huge success, and created a stir in the crypto art community with over 1,000 visitors attending.” In addition to this, WOCA recently launched a website to showcase art created by women, and applied to speak at events like NFT NYC, a leading annual event for crypto artists, collectors, and investors, where only about 20% of applicants speaking are women. The community is also on a mission to train traditional artists on how to transition into the crypto art market.For new artists, the fast-paced, evolving world of NFT art can be a tough space to navigate, and without a community to offer emotional support, it tends to feel isolating. To provide a safe and inclusive space, Maalavidaa created Heal the Deal in January. This community hosts weekly clubhouse sessions on crypto art and NFTs, and welcomes artists, newcomers, and collectors to reach out to gain or offer support. “We’ve been compiling more and more resources on NFT support, mental health care, and charities,” she explains. “From technical knowledge to meditation and social causes, Heal the Deal aims to spread as much positivity as possible, radiating in all social fields.”According to Kim, the NFT market holds endless possibilities for creatives. “With greater adoption,” she says, “NFTs have the potential to create a new cultural renaissance.” In this new, evolving phase in the digital age, there’s a price tag on everything: Memes, tweets, Instagram posts, and even music can be bought and resold. Many skeptics believe it’s only a passing phase, but for some creatives, NFTs represent a better future where they can sell their work to eager collectors independently, and receive royalties upon future resales. With the efforts of communities like WOCA and Heal the Deal, other female artists can be encouraged to sell their work digitally and become part of the moment. Queer life in 2021 is as wide-ranging as it’s ever been, encompassing parties, protests, and, occasionally, sitting down with an iced coffee and a great book. There’s a breadth of exciting, new queer writing coming out this year—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and beyond—that makes for great reading any time of the year (and not just Pride Month, ahem). Below, find nine of the books by LGBTQ+ authors, including Sarah Schulman, Melissa Febos, Jasmine Mans, and many more, that we can’t wait to read.Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad (March 1)In this memoir, writer Hari Ziyad recounts their origin as one of 19 children raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father; they also skillfully narrate their experience of growing up Black and queer in Cleveland, as well as their coming of age in New York City. Their story is often painful, but it’s full of joy too, and it offers readers a new script for pushing beyond racial and gender binaries.untold: defining moments of the uprooted edited by Gabrielle Deonath and Kamini Ramdeen (March 2)This anthology from Brown Girl Magazine compiles the voices of 32 writers who explore myriad facets of the South Asian experience in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, from immigration and mental health to sexual orientation and gender identity. With a powerful foreword penned by Born Confused author Tanuja Desai Hidier, this wide-ranging collection of deeply human experiences is not to be missed.Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (March 9)Spoken-word poet Jasmine Mans’s gift with words is nothing short of sublime, and the territory she explores in this poetry collection—from waiting for her mother to get home from work and do her hair as a child in Newark to coming into her full as a young, queer Black woman—couldn’t be more necessary.Sarahland by Sam Cohen (March 9)This short-story collection revolves around a clutch of women named Sarah looking for themselves across a wide range of milieus, from a primarily Jewish college dorm and a rich necrophiliac’s apartment to a fan-fiction site and somewhere beyond the earth itself. It’s an ambitious work, to be sure, but the structural leaps it takes are more than earned, and Cohen’s prose is something to be celebrated all on its own.Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (March 9)True-crime fans will appreciate this staggering nonfiction work by Elon Green, which tells the story of the Last Call Killer, a serial murderer who preyed upon gay men in New York in the ’80s and ’90s and was able to have his crimes all but forgotten in no small part thanks to America’s deeply ingrained legacy of homophobia.Girlhood by Melissa Febos (March 30)Her whole life, writer Melissa Febos has been forced to understand her body primarily through other people’s conceptions of it. If that sounds familiar to you, Girlhood—a mix of investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship around what it truly means to be a young woman—might be right up your alley. (And if you’re a parent struggling to understand what your teenage daughter is going through, it’s safe to say this book might help.)The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (May 4)Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel (yes, she of the Bechdel Test) changed the landscape of queer comics forever with 2007’s Fun Home, and now she’s back with a new graphic memoir of her lifelong obsession with exercise. Fitness fads from Jack LaLanne to the aughts cult of spin class are set against Bechdel’s continual quest to get stronger and take up more space in the world; the book is hilarious, but it’s moving too.Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (May 11)Adding to the queer graphic-novel canon is Lee Lai’s beautifully drawn and emotionally resonant debut, which revolves around two self-described “weirdo aunties,” Bron and Ray, taking care of their six-year-old niece while attempting to heal fraught sibling bonds in the process. Faith, family, gender, romantic love, and the difficulties of truly knowing another person (even if they happened to be related to you) are on full display in Stone Fruit, to great effect.Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman (May 18)Sarah Schulman is widely known as the author of 2016’s Conflict Is Not Abuse, but in Let The Record Show, she returns with an in-depth and fully realized account of the AIDS activist group ACT UP, a collective that ultimately changed the faces of both medicine and history. Schulman conducted more than 200 interviews with ACT UP members for the book, and the end result is a text that offers younger queer activists a rare study of their own history.With Teeth by Kristen Arnett (June 1)A mother at her wit’s end is forced to unpack her tenuous bond with her wife and son in this chilling, oddly relatable queer family novel set in central Florida. The time jumps in With Teeth are beautifully executed, leaving the reader with endless questions about what it truly means to share a life with the people you supposedly love.One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (June 1)If you’re in need of a time-traveling queer romance, look no further; in One Last Stop, beleaguered server and student August falls head over heels for sexy, mysterious Jane, whom she meets on the subway. There’s just one problem: Jane is stuck in the 1970s, and it will take all of her and August’s combined ingenuity (plus no small amount of furtive, sweaty summer romance) to set her free.Future Feeling by Joss Lake (June 1)If you’re looking for a book that ties together millennial hustle-culture ennui, magic, trans identity, and influencer culture (plus about a dozen other themes), look no further than Joss Lake’s debut, which is sure to stay on your mind long after you’ve finished the final page.Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer (June 8)Beloved advice columnist J.P. Brammer is perhaps in his finest form in this memoir, which tackles everything from his queer identity to his experience growing up biracial in rural Oklahoma and his initial forays onto the gay dating app Grindr (whence the title of the book sprang).The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc (June 15)It’s hard to think of an endeavor more traditionally gendered than parenting, which makes Krys Malcolm Belc’s memoir of giving birth and raising children as a nonbinary, transmasculine parent all the more necessary. Hopefully, The Natural Mother of the Child will soon be part of wide array of books encouraging us to appreciate family bonds outside the confines of gender norms.Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor (June 22)From the author of the novel Real Life comes a truly unmissable follow-up; this series of linked stories set in the American Midwest flips between subjects abruptly yet carefully, ranging from a young man’s sexual relationship with a pair of dancers to a babysitter’s lament at being responsible for a child who leaves a trail of devastation in her wake. J.P. Brammer was a newly-out-of-the-closet junior in college exploring Grindr when, for the first time in the app, “some white guy greeted me by saying, ‘Hola papi,’” Brammer writes in his memoir, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons. “I’d never really considered myself any kind of ‘papi.’ I was a mixed-race Mexican American with noodle arms who couldn’t legally drink yet. But in the overwhelming influx of everything that came with coming out… I didn’t think too much of it.”Brammer has since reclaimed the pickup line—first (in a full-circle moment) as the title of his satirical advice column for Grindr’s digital magazine Into, and now as the title of his Substack and memoir. The book version of ¡Hola Papi! is a series of essays told in advice columns; at turns hilarious and wrenching looks at Brammer’s upbringing as one of the few gay Mexican-American boys in his rural Oklahoma hometown. “We weren’t just some of the only Mexicans around,” Brammer writes. “We were some of the only people around, period.”One standout query—”¡Hola Papi! How do I overcome my imposter syndrome to live my life as an authentic Latino? Signed, Panicked Hispanic”—inspires a chapter on Brammer’s biracial background, the son of a Mexican mom and a white dad who felt stuck in between identities. Brammer’s maternal grandma grew up poor in a Texas barrio, dropping out of fourth grade to make money picking fruit. “She hadn’t wanted her kids to deal with the things she’d dealt with,” Brammer writes. “The result, Panicked? We all lost Spanish. We lost Christmas tamales. We lost quinceañeras, and we lost the sense that we were from somewhere else, that immutable otherness that separated my abuelos from me—their accents; the way they dressed; the color of their skin; their burdens. My mom, my sister, and I, meanwhile, were Americans with a squeeze of lime.”Other appeals for advice bring Brammer back to the relentless bullying he faced in high school, the fleeting glory at having a girlfriend in a world that desperately wanted him to be straight, and the conundrum of encountering one of said bullies years later on—where else?—Grindr. Vogue spoke with Brammer this week about what qualifies an advice columnist, being called “papi,” and anointing himself the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.”You initially pitched the Grindr column Hola Papi as “Latino Dear Abby huffing poppers.” You made me think about how advice columns like “Dear Abby” and “Dear Ann” were all written from the perspective of this proper, all-knowing person. Did you grow up reading those?Narratively speaking, I think it would be really great if I had been this young gay Chicano in rural America who was just like, ‘God, I want to grow up and be an advice columnist one day.’ The reality is weirder. I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I happened to be living in New York, let go from the company that moved me up there, and I was running low on money, about to have to move back to Oklahoma. That’s when my friend Mathew Rodriguez who worked at Into was like, ‘Hey, do you want to pitch your column for this new site we’re doing?’ I was like, ‘I really need to maximize the number of checks I’m getting out of this company because I need to pay rent.’ But I didn’t trust my brain to come up with something new every week. It turns out there’s this thing called the advice column, where they send you stuff to write about. I’ll name it ‘Hola Papi,’ because that’s what people say to me on the app all the time, and it’ll be a spoof-y advice column. What if Dear Abby was on Grindr?I just love the characterization of you as the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.” Where did that come from?It came from my agent being like, “We have to put a book proposal together.” Young gay boy writers have this glamorous idea of being Carrie Bradshaw, someone who writes once a month and somehow was able to afford an apartment in Manhattan. There’s just something funny about taking this 5’11 heavyset Mexican man—me—and putting it in those pumps.You consider your qualifications to dispense advice upfront in chapter one. You write, “Who am I to tell other people how to live?” But is there an argument for people who are still figuring it out themselves being the best advice-givers of all?One thing I recognized very quickly in writing this column is that my powers begin and end with me being your bestie at the bar. You can talk to me and I’ll talk back, but I’m not like a doctor or a therapist. I went to a state school. The book really is about wrestling with the question of authority. What have I gone through in life? What have I overcome that would lend me the wisdom and experience to help someone else? Each chapter is a really important event. Remember when you overcame bullying? Remember when you were in love with your best friend? I did develop an interest in the advice column’s history and how it has historically been one of the few avenues for women and non-white people to actually make a name for themselves in writing because, people used to see it like, “This deals with emotions and domestic issues and etiquette—that’s women’s work.”You got the line “Hola papi” on Grindr a lot. What did you make of people seeing you that way, when you say that you never really saw yourself as a “papi”?One thing I’ve learned from being on Grindr is that people’s standards for the word “papi” are pretty low. I mean, if you’re calling me “papi” in my twink days, it clearly has nothing to do with me being the muscle-bound Latino that I am today. It’s a narrative they want to apply to someone— “I am looking for a papi online. I have this weird fetish fantasy thing. I’m going to find the first Latino on this app and just apply it to them.” The papi comes before the horse. But I was really interested in this idea of being put in this position that I can’t quite occupy. Like I’m not quite a papi. I’m not quite an advice columnist. I’m not quite a Mexican—the discomfort of sitting with identity. I find it very fruitful for literature, even if it’s not the most comfortable thing in the world to experience.¡Hola Papi! author J.P. Brammer I related so closely to the chapter about not feeling like an authentic Latino, or not feeling Latino enough. It’s such a nuanced and overlooked thing—feeling disconnected from your heritage. For those of us who come from mixed homes, or whose families assimilated in order to make it, who don’t speak Spanish or all of the above, other people may see you as something that you don’t even feel connected to yourself. What made you want to dive into this?The United States is so good at making you feel like you’re other. I don’t think that’s just true for non-white people. I think a lot of people are clawing for something that will help them to find themselves. That can lead to identity crises, and I certainly had ones when I was growing up because I realized that my family didn’t look like the families around me. I didn’t exactly share a lot of the same customs and traditions as my classmates, but I also didn’t share any with people I saw as authentic Latinos. This desire to be authentic, to bring the facts of our lives into more perfect alignment with some sort of script, is really painful. In the chapter where I worked at the tortilla factory, I immersed myself with Chicanos and Mexicans who spoke perfect Spanish, had tattoos all over their bodies and it really didn’t teach me anything other than, you’re actually quite different from these people. You have your own story and you shouldn’t use them to validate who you are.You write that your abuela dropped out of school in fourth grade and grew up poor, and so she raised your mother to assimilate—to not speak Spanish or really hold on to Mexican culture. I’ve always thought about that as a loss, but you’ve written about how the effort to assimilate is as Latino or Latinx as anything.I think that people really underestimate loss as an element of their identity. By its nature, it’s something you don’t have. You can’t turn it over in your hand. It can be a lot harder to look at it and be like, “Actually, the fact that I don’t speak Spanish is a legacy.” It’s not the only legacy for my community, but it’s certainly mine, and it points to very material things. It points to discrimination in hiring practices. It points to racism and xenophobia. These are things that you encounter if you’ve been deemed some sort of other, and for my family who was very poor and had dark brown skin and who were navigating a very segregated Texas at the time, these were decisions they made out of survival.Your abuela was a scene-stealer. She can sniff shame a mile away and she wants to kill all of the characters on her favorite telenovelas. She also seemed like your link to what you thought of as being an “authentic Latino.”In my book, she often serves as the ideal Mexican. At the same time, I feel a little bit disingenuous doing that because one thing I can’t explain is that this woman is just crazy. It’s not like it’s the ethnicity thing. One thing I didn’t get to include in the book was I tried coming out to her one time. I was like, “Abuelita, I’m gay.” And she turned to me and she was like, “Rachel Maddow. That’s a handsome woman, mijo.”This interview has been edited and condensed. 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Krista Kim, the creator of Mars House, who came into the NFT space in 2020, describes her record-breaking sale as a demonstration of a near future where art will be displayed as virtual 3D pieces, sold in order to be projected in homes and outdoor spaces, or even made to float in the sky.“Mars House is a sneak peek into the future, as the first 3D digital home that can be experienced as an immersive experience in augmented reality,” says Kim. “Artists are expressing what it means to be human in the digital age through NFTs. Soon we will adorn our lives with NFT art, fashion, poetry, music, collectibles, and interactive experiences using A.R. technology.”The sale is a harbinger for additional reasons as well. In the last few months, the internet has been buzzing nonstop about non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs. But what are they? Basically, an NFT is a unit of data representing a unique asset—such as an art, music, or video file—that can be traded like any other piece of property, only in this case, they’re bought and sold in a non-tangible form. The seller puts a single, original piece up for sale in a process called minting, and the buyer gets exclusive proof of ownership through the NFT. Anyone could take screenshots, download or create copies of the item, but the original file remains the only valuable piece, because it’s represented by the non-fungible token that can be tracked on a digital ledger known as the blockchain.Although the decentralized NFT marketplace gives artists equal and direct access to collectors, most of the artists making the biggest sales on the market are predominantly male.Like Kim, a number of women are successfully carving out a niche in the exploding NFT art scene. Still, as the market has grown, the trend of male dominance has also become more apparent. Although the decentralized NFT marketplace gives artists equal and direct access to collectors, side-stepping some of the traditional barriers that have historically disadvantaged female artists, most of the artists making the biggest sales on the market are predominantly male. Digital artist Beeple’s piece Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for almost $70 million. Pixelated cartoon characters called CryptoPunks, created by Larva Labs cofounders John Watkinson and Matt Hall, are going for as high as $7.5 million. The Nyan Cat meme, created by Chris Torres, made about $590,000 when it was auctioned off.“What I’ve noticed in the NFT world is that a lot of the top artists are men, especially on exclusive platforms that are application-based,” says Isabel Malia, a photographer and 2D hand-drawn animator who came into the NFT space recently. “Historically, opportunities in tech have been kept from women. I do see women in the industry, but it seems like other men hold off on sharing and supporting artists that aren’t men,” she adds.According to the graphic designer and digital artist Alycia Rainaud, who goes by Maalavidaa, the lack of inclusivity in the art market as a whole has also become part of the NFT industry. “Identifying as female might come with a cost in pretty much all industries, and the NFT space is no stranger to such phenomena,” she says. “It’s no secret that the industry has a huge male presence that makes it more difficult for females to be seen, to be heard, and for their work to prevail.”“It seems that women are having a hard time being represented and valorized across the NFT landscape.”“From my perspective and understanding, it seems that women are having a hard time being represented and valorized across the NFT landscape,” Maalavidaa explains. “A number of females in the space have reported being concerned about how few of us have been given the opportunity to access curated platforms.” There is a noticeably lower percentage of women and minorities involved in the community, as opposed to male representation. Already, research shows that women make up only about 15% of crypto users. The effect of this exclusion could be long-lasting, preventing women or other minorities from getting into this field. “With little or no representation” says Malia, “I’m sure a lot of women and other minorities feel overwhelmed and discouraged to try.”But as more artists transition into the NFT industry, women are creating communities to advocate for gender inclusivity by amplifying and promoting art by artists who identify as women. One of such communities is Women of Crypto Art (WOCA), which was formed in 2020 by NFT artists and collectors Etta Tottie, Angie Taylor, Stina Jones, GiselXFlorez, and Sparrow. WOCA welcomes women from all over the world to come together and share ideas on all things crypto art, and encourages collectors and supporters of women in the industry to join the community, regardless of gender identity. The group plans to experiment with multiple avenues of autonomy for women in the NFT space and provide a safe space to learn blockchain/crypto art dynamics, while communicating in multiple languages.“We recently obtained our own parcel of land in Cryptovoxels,” says GiselXFlorez, an experimental still life digital artist and a cofounder of WOCA. Cryptovoxels is a virtual world where users can buy land to build stores and art galleries. The group is building a WOCA museum, which will house a collection of the best in women’s crypto art. “The first exhibition, titled ‘She Art,’ took place in the Cryptovoxels metaverse in September 2020, and featured crypto art from over 30 women,” says GiselXFlorez. “It was a huge success, and created a stir in the crypto art community with over 1,000 visitors attending.” In addition to this, WOCA recently launched a website to showcase art created by women, and applied to speak at events like NFT NYC, a leading annual event for crypto artists, collectors, and investors, where only about 20% of applicants speaking are women. The community is also on a mission to train traditional artists on how to transition into the crypto art market.For new artists, the fast-paced, evolving world of NFT art can be a tough space to navigate, and without a community to offer emotional support, it tends to feel isolating. To provide a safe and inclusive space, Maalavidaa created Heal the Deal in January. This community hosts weekly clubhouse sessions on crypto art and NFTs, and welcomes artists, newcomers, and collectors to reach out to gain or offer support. “We’ve been compiling more and more resources on NFT support, mental health care, and charities,” she explains. “From technical knowledge to meditation and social causes, Heal the Deal aims to spread as much positivity as possible, radiating in all social fields.”According to Kim, the NFT market holds endless possibilities for creatives. “With greater adoption,” she says, “NFTs have the potential to create a new cultural renaissance.” In this new, evolving phase in the digital age, there’s a price tag on everything: Memes, tweets, Instagram posts, and even music can be bought and resold. Many skeptics believe it’s only a passing phase, but for some creatives, NFTs represent a better future where they can sell their work to eager collectors independently, and receive royalties upon future resales. With the efforts of communities like WOCA and Heal the Deal, other female artists can be encouraged to sell their work digitally and become part of the moment. Queer life in 2021 is as wide-ranging as it’s ever been, encompassing parties, protests, and, occasionally, sitting down with an iced coffee and a great book. There’s a breadth of exciting, new queer writing coming out this year—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and beyond—that makes for great reading any time of the year (and not just Pride Month, ahem). Below, find nine of the books by LGBTQ+ authors, including Sarah Schulman, Melissa Febos, Jasmine Mans, and many more, that we can’t wait to read.Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad (March 1)In this memoir, writer Hari Ziyad recounts their origin as one of 19 children raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father; they also skillfully narrate their experience of growing up Black and queer in Cleveland, as well as their coming of age in New York City. Their story is often painful, but it’s full of joy too, and it offers readers a new script for pushing beyond racial and gender binaries.untold: defining moments of the uprooted edited by Gabrielle Deonath and Kamini Ramdeen (March 2)This anthology from Brown Girl Magazine compiles the voices of 32 writers who explore myriad facets of the South Asian experience in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, from immigration and mental health to sexual orientation and gender identity. With a powerful foreword penned by Born Confused author Tanuja Desai Hidier, this wide-ranging collection of deeply human experiences is not to be missed.Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (March 9)Spoken-word poet Jasmine Mans’s gift with words is nothing short of sublime, and the territory she explores in this poetry collection—from waiting for her mother to get home from work and do her hair as a child in Newark to coming into her full as a young, queer Black woman—couldn’t be more necessary.Sarahland by Sam Cohen (March 9)This short-story collection revolves around a clutch of women named Sarah looking for themselves across a wide range of milieus, from a primarily Jewish college dorm and a rich necrophiliac’s apartment to a fan-fiction site and somewhere beyond the earth itself. It’s an ambitious work, to be sure, but the structural leaps it takes are more than earned, and Cohen’s prose is something to be celebrated all on its own.Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (March 9)True-crime fans will appreciate this staggering nonfiction work by Elon Green, which tells the story of the Last Call Killer, a serial murderer who preyed upon gay men in New York in the ’80s and ’90s and was able to have his crimes all but forgotten in no small part thanks to America’s deeply ingrained legacy of homophobia.Girlhood by Melissa Febos (March 30)Her whole life, writer Melissa Febos has been forced to understand her body primarily through other people’s conceptions of it. If that sounds familiar to you, Girlhood—a mix of investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship around what it truly means to be a young woman—might be right up your alley. (And if you’re a parent struggling to understand what your teenage daughter is going through, it’s safe to say this book might help.)The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (May 4)Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel (yes, she of the Bechdel Test) changed the landscape of queer comics forever with 2007’s Fun Home, and now she’s back with a new graphic memoir of her lifelong obsession with exercise. Fitness fads from Jack LaLanne to the aughts cult of spin class are set against Bechdel’s continual quest to get stronger and take up more space in the world; the book is hilarious, but it’s moving too.Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (May 11)Adding to the queer graphic-novel canon is Lee Lai’s beautifully drawn and emotionally resonant debut, which revolves around two self-described “weirdo aunties,” Bron and Ray, taking care of their six-year-old niece while attempting to heal fraught sibling bonds in the process. Faith, family, gender, romantic love, and the difficulties of truly knowing another person (even if they happened to be related to you) are on full display in Stone Fruit, to great effect.Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman (May 18)Sarah Schulman is widely known as the author of 2016’s Conflict Is Not Abuse, but in Let The Record Show, she returns with an in-depth and fully realized account of the AIDS activist group ACT UP, a collective that ultimately changed the faces of both medicine and history. Schulman conducted more than 200 interviews with ACT UP members for the book, and the end result is a text that offers younger queer activists a rare study of their own history.With Teeth by Kristen Arnett (June 1)A mother at her wit’s end is forced to unpack her tenuous bond with her wife and son in this chilling, oddly relatable queer family novel set in central Florida. The time jumps in With Teeth are beautifully executed, leaving the reader with endless questions about what it truly means to share a life with the people you supposedly love.One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (June 1)If you’re in need of a time-traveling queer romance, look no further; in One Last Stop, beleaguered server and student August falls head over heels for sexy, mysterious Jane, whom she meets on the subway. There’s just one problem: Jane is stuck in the 1970s, and it will take all of her and August’s combined ingenuity (plus no small amount of furtive, sweaty summer romance) to set her free.Future Feeling by Joss Lake (June 1)If you’re looking for a book that ties together millennial hustle-culture ennui, magic, trans identity, and influencer culture (plus about a dozen other themes), look no further than Joss Lake’s debut, which is sure to stay on your mind long after you’ve finished the final page.Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer (June 8)Beloved advice columnist J.P. Brammer is perhaps in his finest form in this memoir, which tackles everything from his queer identity to his experience growing up biracial in rural Oklahoma and his initial forays onto the gay dating app Grindr (whence the title of the book sprang).The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc (June 15)It’s hard to think of an endeavor more traditionally gendered than parenting, which makes Krys Malcolm Belc’s memoir of giving birth and raising children as a nonbinary, transmasculine parent all the more necessary. Hopefully, The Natural Mother of the Child will soon be part of wide array of books encouraging us to appreciate family bonds outside the confines of gender norms.Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor (June 22)From the author of the novel Real Life comes a truly unmissable follow-up; this series of linked stories set in the American Midwest flips between subjects abruptly yet carefully, ranging from a young man’s sexual relationship with a pair of dancers to a babysitter’s lament at being responsible for a child who leaves a trail of devastation in her wake. J.P. Brammer was a newly-out-of-the-closet junior in college exploring Grindr when, for the first time in the app, “some white guy greeted me by saying, ‘Hola papi,’” Brammer writes in his memoir, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons. “I’d never really considered myself any kind of ‘papi.’ I was a mixed-race Mexican American with noodle arms who couldn’t legally drink yet. But in the overwhelming influx of everything that came with coming out… I didn’t think too much of it.”Brammer has since reclaimed the pickup line—first (in a full-circle moment) as the title of his satirical advice column for Grindr’s digital magazine Into, and now as the title of his Substack and memoir. The book version of ¡Hola Papi! is a series of essays told in advice columns; at turns hilarious and wrenching looks at Brammer’s upbringing as one of the few gay Mexican-American boys in his rural Oklahoma hometown. “We weren’t just some of the only Mexicans around,” Brammer writes. “We were some of the only people around, period.”One standout query—”¡Hola Papi! How do I overcome my imposter syndrome to live my life as an authentic Latino? Signed, Panicked Hispanic”—inspires a chapter on Brammer’s biracial background, the son of a Mexican mom and a white dad who felt stuck in between identities. Brammer’s maternal grandma grew up poor in a Texas barrio, dropping out of fourth grade to make money picking fruit. “She hadn’t wanted her kids to deal with the things she’d dealt with,” Brammer writes. “The result, Panicked? We all lost Spanish. We lost Christmas tamales. We lost quinceañeras, and we lost the sense that we were from somewhere else, that immutable otherness that separated my abuelos from me—their accents; the way they dressed; the color of their skin; their burdens. My mom, my sister, and I, meanwhile, were Americans with a squeeze of lime.”Other appeals for advice bring Brammer back to the relentless bullying he faced in high school, the fleeting glory at having a girlfriend in a world that desperately wanted him to be straight, and the conundrum of encountering one of said bullies years later on—where else?—Grindr. Vogue spoke with Brammer this week about what qualifies an advice columnist, being called “papi,” and anointing himself the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.”You initially pitched the Grindr column Hola Papi as “Latino Dear Abby huffing poppers.” You made me think about how advice columns like “Dear Abby” and “Dear Ann” were all written from the perspective of this proper, all-knowing person. Did you grow up reading those?Narratively speaking, I think it would be really great if I had been this young gay Chicano in rural America who was just like, ‘God, I want to grow up and be an advice columnist one day.’ The reality is weirder. I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I happened to be living in New York, let go from the company that moved me up there, and I was running low on money, about to have to move back to Oklahoma. That’s when my friend Mathew Rodriguez who worked at Into was like, ‘Hey, do you want to pitch your column for this new site we’re doing?’ I was like, ‘I really need to maximize the number of checks I’m getting out of this company because I need to pay rent.’ But I didn’t trust my brain to come up with something new every week. It turns out there’s this thing called the advice column, where they send you stuff to write about. I’ll name it ‘Hola Papi,’ because that’s what people say to me on the app all the time, and it’ll be a spoof-y advice column. What if Dear Abby was on Grindr?I just love the characterization of you as the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.” Where did that come from?It came from my agent being like, “We have to put a book proposal together.” Young gay boy writers have this glamorous idea of being Carrie Bradshaw, someone who writes once a month and somehow was able to afford an apartment in Manhattan. There’s just something funny about taking this 5’11 heavyset Mexican man—me—and putting it in those pumps.You consider your qualifications to dispense advice upfront in chapter one. You write, “Who am I to tell other people how to live?” But is there an argument for people who are still figuring it out themselves being the best advice-givers of all?One thing I recognized very quickly in writing this column is that my powers begin and end with me being your bestie at the bar. You can talk to me and I’ll talk back, but I’m not like a doctor or a therapist. I went to a state school. The book really is about wrestling with the question of authority. What have I gone through in life? What have I overcome that would lend me the wisdom and experience to help someone else? Each chapter is a really important event. Remember when you overcame bullying? Remember when you were in love with your best friend? I did develop an interest in the advice column’s history and how it has historically been one of the few avenues for women and non-white people to actually make a name for themselves in writing because, people used to see it like, “This deals with emotions and domestic issues and etiquette—that’s women’s work.”You got the line “Hola papi” on Grindr a lot. What did you make of people seeing you that way, when you say that you never really saw yourself as a “papi”?One thing I’ve learned from being on Grindr is that people’s standards for the word “papi” are pretty low. I mean, if you’re calling me “papi” in my twink days, it clearly has nothing to do with me being the muscle-bound Latino that I am today. It’s a narrative they want to apply to someone— “I am looking for a papi online. I have this weird fetish fantasy thing. I’m going to find the first Latino on this app and just apply it to them.” The papi comes before the horse. But I was really interested in this idea of being put in this position that I can’t quite occupy. Like I’m not quite a papi. I’m not quite an advice columnist. I’m not quite a Mexican—the discomfort of sitting with identity. I find it very fruitful for literature, even if it’s not the most comfortable thing in the world to experience.¡Hola Papi! author J.P. Brammer I related so closely to the chapter about not feeling like an authentic Latino, or not feeling Latino enough. It’s such a nuanced and overlooked thing—feeling disconnected from your heritage. For those of us who come from mixed homes, or whose families assimilated in order to make it, who don’t speak Spanish or all of the above, other people may see you as something that you don’t even feel connected to yourself. What made you want to dive into this?The United States is so good at making you feel like you’re other. I don’t think that’s just true for non-white people. I think a lot of people are clawing for something that will help them to find themselves. That can lead to identity crises, and I certainly had ones when I was growing up because I realized that my family didn’t look like the families around me. I didn’t exactly share a lot of the same customs and traditions as my classmates, but I also didn’t share any with people I saw as authentic Latinos. This desire to be authentic, to bring the facts of our lives into more perfect alignment with some sort of script, is really painful. In the chapter where I worked at the tortilla factory, I immersed myself with Chicanos and Mexicans who spoke perfect Spanish, had tattoos all over their bodies and it really didn’t teach me anything other than, you’re actually quite different from these people. You have your own story and you shouldn’t use them to validate who you are.You write that your abuela dropped out of school in fourth grade and grew up poor, and so she raised your mother to assimilate—to not speak Spanish or really hold on to Mexican culture. I’ve always thought about that as a loss, but you’ve written about how the effort to assimilate is as Latino or Latinx as anything.I think that people really underestimate loss as an element of their identity. By its nature, it’s something you don’t have. You can’t turn it over in your hand. It can be a lot harder to look at it and be like, “Actually, the fact that I don’t speak Spanish is a legacy.” It’s not the only legacy for my community, but it’s certainly mine, and it points to very material things. It points to discrimination in hiring practices. It points to racism and xenophobia. These are things that you encounter if you’ve been deemed some sort of other, and for my family who was very poor and had dark brown skin and who were navigating a very segregated Texas at the time, these were decisions they made out of survival.Your abuela was a scene-stealer. She can sniff shame a mile away and she wants to kill all of the characters on her favorite telenovelas. She also seemed like your link to what you thought of as being an “authentic Latino.”In my book, she often serves as the ideal Mexican. At the same time, I feel a little bit disingenuous doing that because one thing I can’t explain is that this woman is just crazy. It’s not like it’s the ethnicity thing. One thing I didn’t get to include in the book was I tried coming out to her one time. I was like, “Abuelita, I’m gay.” And she turned to me and she was like, “Rachel Maddow. That’s a handsome woman, mijo.”This interview has been edited and condensed. 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Krista Kim, the creator of Mars House, who came into the NFT space in 2020, describes her record-breaking sale as a demonstration of a near future where art will be displayed as virtual 3D pieces, sold in order to be projected in homes and outdoor spaces, or even made to float in the sky.“Mars House is a sneak peek into the future, as the first 3D digital home that can be experienced as an immersive experience in augmented reality,” says Kim. “Artists are expressing what it means to be human in the digital age through NFTs. Soon we will adorn our lives with NFT art, fashion, poetry, music, collectibles, and interactive experiences using A.R. technology.”The sale is a harbinger for additional reasons as well. In the last few months, the internet has been buzzing nonstop about non-fungible tokens, more commonly known as NFTs. But what are they? Basically, an NFT is a unit of data representing a unique asset—such as an art, music, or video file—that can be traded like any other piece of property, only in this case, they’re bought and sold in a non-tangible form. The seller puts a single, original piece up for sale in a process called minting, and the buyer gets exclusive proof of ownership through the NFT. Anyone could take screenshots, download or create copies of the item, but the original file remains the only valuable piece, because it’s represented by the non-fungible token that can be tracked on a digital ledger known as the blockchain.Although the decentralized NFT marketplace gives artists equal and direct access to collectors, most of the artists making the biggest sales on the market are predominantly male.Like Kim, a number of women are successfully carving out a niche in the exploding NFT art scene. Still, as the market has grown, the trend of male dominance has also become more apparent. Although the decentralized NFT marketplace gives artists equal and direct access to collectors, side-stepping some of the traditional barriers that have historically disadvantaged female artists, most of the artists making the biggest sales on the market are predominantly male. Digital artist Beeple’s piece Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for almost $70 million. Pixelated cartoon characters called CryptoPunks, created by Larva Labs cofounders John Watkinson and Matt Hall, are going for as high as $7.5 million. The Nyan Cat meme, created by Chris Torres, made about $590,000 when it was auctioned off.“What I’ve noticed in the NFT world is that a lot of the top artists are men, especially on exclusive platforms that are application-based,” says Isabel Malia, a photographer and 2D hand-drawn animator who came into the NFT space recently. “Historically, opportunities in tech have been kept from women. I do see women in the industry, but it seems like other men hold off on sharing and supporting artists that aren’t men,” she adds.According to the graphic designer and digital artist Alycia Rainaud, who goes by Maalavidaa, the lack of inclusivity in the art market as a whole has also become part of the NFT industry. “Identifying as female might come with a cost in pretty much all industries, and the NFT space is no stranger to such phenomena,” she says. “It’s no secret that the industry has a huge male presence that makes it more difficult for females to be seen, to be heard, and for their work to prevail.”“It seems that women are having a hard time being represented and valorized across the NFT landscape.”“From my perspective and understanding, it seems that women are having a hard time being represented and valorized across the NFT landscape,” Maalavidaa explains. “A number of females in the space have reported being concerned about how few of us have been given the opportunity to access curated platforms.” There is a noticeably lower percentage of women and minorities involved in the community, as opposed to male representation. Already, research shows that women make up only about 15% of crypto users. The effect of this exclusion could be long-lasting, preventing women or other minorities from getting into this field. “With little or no representation” says Malia, “I’m sure a lot of women and other minorities feel overwhelmed and discouraged to try.”But as more artists transition into the NFT industry, women are creating communities to advocate for gender inclusivity by amplifying and promoting art by artists who identify as women. One of such communities is Women of Crypto Art (WOCA), which was formed in 2020 by NFT artists and collectors Etta Tottie, Angie Taylor, Stina Jones, GiselXFlorez, and Sparrow. WOCA welcomes women from all over the world to come together and share ideas on all things crypto art, and encourages collectors and supporters of women in the industry to join the community, regardless of gender identity. The group plans to experiment with multiple avenues of autonomy for women in the NFT space and provide a safe space to learn blockchain/crypto art dynamics, while communicating in multiple languages.“We recently obtained our own parcel of land in Cryptovoxels,” says GiselXFlorez, an experimental still life digital artist and a cofounder of WOCA. Cryptovoxels is a virtual world where users can buy land to build stores and art galleries. The group is building a WOCA museum, which will house a collection of the best in women’s crypto art. “The first exhibition, titled ‘She Art,’ took place in the Cryptovoxels metaverse in September 2020, and featured crypto art from over 30 women,” says GiselXFlorez. “It was a huge success, and created a stir in the crypto art community with over 1,000 visitors attending.” In addition to this, WOCA recently launched a website to showcase art created by women, and applied to speak at events like NFT NYC, a leading annual event for crypto artists, collectors, and investors, where only about 20% of applicants speaking are women. The community is also on a mission to train traditional artists on how to transition into the crypto art market.For new artists, the fast-paced, evolving world of NFT art can be a tough space to navigate, and without a community to offer emotional support, it tends to feel isolating. To provide a safe and inclusive space, Maalavidaa created Heal the Deal in January. This community hosts weekly clubhouse sessions on crypto art and NFTs, and welcomes artists, newcomers, and collectors to reach out to gain or offer support. “We’ve been compiling more and more resources on NFT support, mental health care, and charities,” she explains. “From technical knowledge to meditation and social causes, Heal the Deal aims to spread as much positivity as possible, radiating in all social fields.”According to Kim, the NFT market holds endless possibilities for creatives. “With greater adoption,” she says, “NFTs have the potential to create a new cultural renaissance.” In this new, evolving phase in the digital age, there’s a price tag on everything: Memes, tweets, Instagram posts, and even music can be bought and resold. Many skeptics believe it’s only a passing phase, but for some creatives, NFTs represent a better future where they can sell their work to eager collectors independently, and receive royalties upon future resales. With the efforts of communities like WOCA and Heal the Deal, other female artists can be encouraged to sell their work digitally and become part of the moment. Queer life in 2021 is as wide-ranging as it’s ever been, encompassing parties, protests, and, occasionally, sitting down with an iced coffee and a great book. There’s a breadth of exciting, new queer writing coming out this year—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and beyond—that makes for great reading any time of the year (and not just Pride Month, ahem). Below, find nine of the books by LGBTQ+ authors, including Sarah Schulman, Melissa Febos, Jasmine Mans, and many more, that we can’t wait to read.Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir by Hari Ziyad (March 1)In this memoir, writer Hari Ziyad recounts their origin as one of 19 children raised by a Hindu Hare Kṛṣṇa mother and a Muslim father; they also skillfully narrate their experience of growing up Black and queer in Cleveland, as well as their coming of age in New York City. Their story is often painful, but it’s full of joy too, and it offers readers a new script for pushing beyond racial and gender binaries.untold: defining moments of the uprooted edited by Gabrielle Deonath and Kamini Ramdeen (March 2)This anthology from Brown Girl Magazine compiles the voices of 32 writers who explore myriad facets of the South Asian experience in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada, from immigration and mental health to sexual orientation and gender identity. With a powerful foreword penned by Born Confused author Tanuja Desai Hidier, this wide-ranging collection of deeply human experiences is not to be missed.Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans (March 9)Spoken-word poet Jasmine Mans’s gift with words is nothing short of sublime, and the territory she explores in this poetry collection—from waiting for her mother to get home from work and do her hair as a child in Newark to coming into her full as a young, queer Black woman—couldn’t be more necessary.Sarahland by Sam Cohen (March 9)This short-story collection revolves around a clutch of women named Sarah looking for themselves across a wide range of milieus, from a primarily Jewish college dorm and a rich necrophiliac’s apartment to a fan-fiction site and somewhere beyond the earth itself. It’s an ambitious work, to be sure, but the structural leaps it takes are more than earned, and Cohen’s prose is something to be celebrated all on its own.Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green (March 9)True-crime fans will appreciate this staggering nonfiction work by Elon Green, which tells the story of the Last Call Killer, a serial murderer who preyed upon gay men in New York in the ’80s and ’90s and was able to have his crimes all but forgotten in no small part thanks to America’s deeply ingrained legacy of homophobia.Girlhood by Melissa Febos (March 30)Her whole life, writer Melissa Febos has been forced to understand her body primarily through other people’s conceptions of it. If that sounds familiar to you, Girlhood—a mix of investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship around what it truly means to be a young woman—might be right up your alley. (And if you’re a parent struggling to understand what your teenage daughter is going through, it’s safe to say this book might help.)The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel (May 4)Graphic novelist Alison Bechdel (yes, she of the Bechdel Test) changed the landscape of queer comics forever with 2007’s Fun Home, and now she’s back with a new graphic memoir of her lifelong obsession with exercise. Fitness fads from Jack LaLanne to the aughts cult of spin class are set against Bechdel’s continual quest to get stronger and take up more space in the world; the book is hilarious, but it’s moving too.Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (May 11)Adding to the queer graphic-novel canon is Lee Lai’s beautifully drawn and emotionally resonant debut, which revolves around two self-described “weirdo aunties,” Bron and Ray, taking care of their six-year-old niece while attempting to heal fraught sibling bonds in the process. Faith, family, gender, romantic love, and the difficulties of truly knowing another person (even if they happened to be related to you) are on full display in Stone Fruit, to great effect.Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman (May 18)Sarah Schulman is widely known as the author of 2016’s Conflict Is Not Abuse, but in Let The Record Show, she returns with an in-depth and fully realized account of the AIDS activist group ACT UP, a collective that ultimately changed the faces of both medicine and history. Schulman conducted more than 200 interviews with ACT UP members for the book, and the end result is a text that offers younger queer activists a rare study of their own history.With Teeth by Kristen Arnett (June 1)A mother at her wit’s end is forced to unpack her tenuous bond with her wife and son in this chilling, oddly relatable queer family novel set in central Florida. The time jumps in With Teeth are beautifully executed, leaving the reader with endless questions about what it truly means to share a life with the people you supposedly love.One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (June 1)If you’re in need of a time-traveling queer romance, look no further; in One Last Stop, beleaguered server and student August falls head over heels for sexy, mysterious Jane, whom she meets on the subway. There’s just one problem: Jane is stuck in the 1970s, and it will take all of her and August’s combined ingenuity (plus no small amount of furtive, sweaty summer romance) to set her free.Future Feeling by Joss Lake (June 1)If you’re looking for a book that ties together millennial hustle-culture ennui, magic, trans identity, and influencer culture (plus about a dozen other themes), look no further than Joss Lake’s debut, which is sure to stay on your mind long after you’ve finished the final page.Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer (June 8)Beloved advice columnist J.P. Brammer is perhaps in his finest form in this memoir, which tackles everything from his queer identity to his experience growing up biracial in rural Oklahoma and his initial forays onto the gay dating app Grindr (whence the title of the book sprang).The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc (June 15)It’s hard to think of an endeavor more traditionally gendered than parenting, which makes Krys Malcolm Belc’s memoir of giving birth and raising children as a nonbinary, transmasculine parent all the more necessary. Hopefully, The Natural Mother of the Child will soon be part of wide array of books encouraging us to appreciate family bonds outside the confines of gender norms.Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor (June 22)From the author of the novel Real Life comes a truly unmissable follow-up; this series of linked stories set in the American Midwest flips between subjects abruptly yet carefully, ranging from a young man’s sexual relationship with a pair of dancers to a babysitter’s lament at being responsible for a child who leaves a trail of devastation in her wake. J.P. Brammer was a newly-out-of-the-closet junior in college exploring Grindr when, for the first time in the app, “some white guy greeted me by saying, ‘Hola papi,’” Brammer writes in his memoir, ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons. “I’d never really considered myself any kind of ‘papi.’ I was a mixed-race Mexican American with noodle arms who couldn’t legally drink yet. But in the overwhelming influx of everything that came with coming out… I didn’t think too much of it.”Brammer has since reclaimed the pickup line—first (in a full-circle moment) as the title of his satirical advice column for Grindr’s digital magazine Into, and now as the title of his Substack and memoir. The book version of ¡Hola Papi! is a series of essays told in advice columns; at turns hilarious and wrenching looks at Brammer’s upbringing as one of the few gay Mexican-American boys in his rural Oklahoma hometown. “We weren’t just some of the only Mexicans around,” Brammer writes. “We were some of the only people around, period.”One standout query—”¡Hola Papi! How do I overcome my imposter syndrome to live my life as an authentic Latino? Signed, Panicked Hispanic”—inspires a chapter on Brammer’s biracial background, the son of a Mexican mom and a white dad who felt stuck in between identities. Brammer’s maternal grandma grew up poor in a Texas barrio, dropping out of fourth grade to make money picking fruit. “She hadn’t wanted her kids to deal with the things she’d dealt with,” Brammer writes. “The result, Panicked? We all lost Spanish. We lost Christmas tamales. We lost quinceañeras, and we lost the sense that we were from somewhere else, that immutable otherness that separated my abuelos from me—their accents; the way they dressed; the color of their skin; their burdens. My mom, my sister, and I, meanwhile, were Americans with a squeeze of lime.”Other appeals for advice bring Brammer back to the relentless bullying he faced in high school, the fleeting glory at having a girlfriend in a world that desperately wanted him to be straight, and the conundrum of encountering one of said bullies years later on—where else?—Grindr. Vogue spoke with Brammer this week about what qualifies an advice columnist, being called “papi,” and anointing himself the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.”You initially pitched the Grindr column Hola Papi as “Latino Dear Abby huffing poppers.” You made me think about how advice columns like “Dear Abby” and “Dear Ann” were all written from the perspective of this proper, all-knowing person. Did you grow up reading those?Narratively speaking, I think it would be really great if I had been this young gay Chicano in rural America who was just like, ‘God, I want to grow up and be an advice columnist one day.’ The reality is weirder. I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I happened to be living in New York, let go from the company that moved me up there, and I was running low on money, about to have to move back to Oklahoma. That’s when my friend Mathew Rodriguez who worked at Into was like, ‘Hey, do you want to pitch your column for this new site we’re doing?’ I was like, ‘I really need to maximize the number of checks I’m getting out of this company because I need to pay rent.’ But I didn’t trust my brain to come up with something new every week. It turns out there’s this thing called the advice column, where they send you stuff to write about. I’ll name it ‘Hola Papi,’ because that’s what people say to me on the app all the time, and it’ll be a spoof-y advice column. What if Dear Abby was on Grindr?I just love the characterization of you as the “Chicano Carrie Bradshaw.” Where did that come from?It came from my agent being like, “We have to put a book proposal together.” Young gay boy writers have this glamorous idea of being Carrie Bradshaw, someone who writes once a month and somehow was able to afford an apartment in Manhattan. There’s just something funny about taking this 5’11 heavyset Mexican man—me—and putting it in those pumps.You consider your qualifications to dispense advice upfront in chapter one. You write, “Who am I to tell other people how to live?” But is there an argument for people who are still figuring it out themselves being the best advice-givers of all?One thing I recognized very quickly in writing this column is that my powers begin and end with me being your bestie at the bar. You can talk to me and I’ll talk back, but I’m not like a doctor or a therapist. I went to a state school. The book really is about wrestling with the question of authority. What have I gone through in life? What have I overcome that would lend me the wisdom and experience to help someone else? Each chapter is a really important event. Remember when you overcame bullying? Remember when you were in love with your best friend? I did develop an interest in the advice column’s history and how it has historically been one of the few avenues for women and non-white people to actually make a name for themselves in writing because, people used to see it like, “This deals with emotions and domestic issues and etiquette—that’s women’s work.”You got the line “Hola papi” on Grindr a lot. What did you make of people seeing you that way, when you say that you never really saw yourself as a “papi”?One thing I’ve learned from being on Grindr is that people’s standards for the word “papi” are pretty low. I mean, if you’re calling me “papi” in my twink days, it clearly has nothing to do with me being the muscle-bound Latino that I am today. It’s a narrative they want to apply to someone— “I am looking for a papi online. I have this weird fetish fantasy thing. I’m going to find the first Latino on this app and just apply it to them.” The papi comes before the horse. But I was really interested in this idea of being put in this position that I can’t quite occupy. Like I’m not quite a papi. I’m not quite an advice columnist. I’m not quite a Mexican—the discomfort of sitting with identity. I find it very fruitful for literature, even if it’s not the most comfortable thing in the world to experience.¡Hola Papi! author J.P. Brammer I related so closely to the chapter about not feeling like an authentic Latino, or not feeling Latino enough. It’s such a nuanced and overlooked thing—feeling disconnected from your heritage. For those of us who come from mixed homes, or whose families assimilated in order to make it, who don’t speak Spanish or all of the above, other people may see you as something that you don’t even feel connected to yourself. What made you want to dive into this?The United States is so good at making you feel like you’re other. I don’t think that’s just true for non-white people. I think a lot of people are clawing for something that will help them to find themselves. That can lead to identity crises, and I certainly had ones when I was growing up because I realized that my family didn’t look like the families around me. I didn’t exactly share a lot of the same customs and traditions as my classmates, but I also didn’t share any with people I saw as authentic Latinos. This desire to be authentic, to bring the facts of our lives into more perfect alignment with some sort of script, is really painful. In the chapter where I worked at the tortilla factory, I immersed myself with Chicanos and Mexicans who spoke perfect Spanish, had tattoos all over their bodies and it really didn’t teach me anything other than, you’re actually quite different from these people. You have your own story and you shouldn’t use them to validate who you are.You write that your abuela dropped out of school in fourth grade and grew up poor, and so she raised your mother to assimilate—to not speak Spanish or really hold on to Mexican culture. I’ve always thought about that as a loss, but you’ve written about how the effort to assimilate is as Latino or Latinx as anything.I think that people really underestimate loss as an element of their identity. By its nature, it’s something you don’t have. You can’t turn it over in your hand. It can be a lot harder to look at it and be like, “Actually, the fact that I don’t speak Spanish is a legacy.” It’s not the only legacy for my community, but it’s certainly mine, and it points to very material things. It points to discrimination in hiring practices. It points to racism and xenophobia. These are things that you encounter if you’ve been deemed some sort of other, and for my family who was very poor and had dark brown skin and who were navigating a very segregated Texas at the time, these were decisions they made out of survival.Your abuela was a scene-stealer. She can sniff shame a mile away and she wants to kill all of the characters on her favorite telenovelas. She also seemed like your link to what you thought of as being an “authentic Latino.”In my book, she often serves as the ideal Mexican. At the same time, I feel a little bit disingenuous doing that because one thing I can’t explain is that this woman is just crazy. It’s not like it’s the ethnicity thing. One thing I didn’t get to include in the book was I tried coming out to her one time. I was like, “Abuelita, I’m gay.” And she turned to me and she was like, “Rachel Maddow. That’s a handsome woman, mijo.”This interview has been edited and condensed. 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