Nina St. Pierre

She covered the last ten minutes of the ride in five and locked her bike up in front of Kingsborough Community College, at the far tip of Sheepshead Bay, where she was studying travel and tourism.

Every Wednesday in Mrs. Keller’s fifth-grade classroom at Dunsmuir Elementary in Northern California, my friends and I clamored for a spot at the computer to play The Oregon Trail.

In The Third Body, French-Algerian author and theorist Hélène Cixous interweaves autobiography, letters, and fantasy to create what she calls a "third body" between herself and a lover.

If social media introduced a new wave of interest in astrology, then Susan Miller is its dot-com foremother.

Before they were married, Louise and Eric Wagensonner spent their Thursday nights playing pool at Delirium, a windowless, tunnel-shaped dive bar in San Francisco’s Mission District.

In the introduction to French pilot and author Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s whimsical classic The Little Prince, a Turkish astronomer discovers a new planet, but the scientific community doesn’t believe him because he’s dressed poorly.

On the hottest Saturday in July, I stood on a chair in a sweaty ballroom at Manhattan’s Grand Hyatt Hotel next to a row of giddy dance moms filming their children.

"The here and now is a prison house," wrote the late scholar and theorist José Muñoz. “We may never touch queerness, but we can feel it as the warm illumination of a horizon imbued with potential.”