How Mainstream Media’s Representation of Drag Affects Atlanta’s Drag Scene
Dotte Com // PHOTO: Manuel Menendezz @necromanny Drag is the most visible it has ever been in mainstream media. The massive success of RuPaul’s Drag Race led to the birth of television programs like...
View ArticleGallery: Tammie Brown and A'Keria C. Davenport at My Sister's Room ATL
Enjoy these Meet & Greet photos from this past weekend’s “Unholy Night” party at My Sister’s Room with A’Keria C. Davenport and Tammie Brown from RuPaul’s Drag Race. All photos by Mark Morin Tag...
View ArticleLOUDSPEAKER:: Poetry by Parker Thornton
WUSSY is proud to present poetry by Parker Thornton.If you would like to send in a writing submission, please contact Nicholas Goodly. Pandemic Poem 6A little thing I like to do in the Year of Our...
View ArticleLOUDSPEAKER:: Poetry by Ken Anderson
WUSSY is proud to present poetry by Ken Anderson.If you would like to send in a writing submission, please contact Nicholas Goodly. DaimonA yearbook defibrillated his memory,and a grungy ghost would...
View ArticleBo Mcguire directs a queer, southern love letter in “Socks on Fire”
On the northeastern side of Alabama sits the broad but lively city of Hokes Bluff. It may not be on your radar (yet), but I’ve come to know it as the centerpiece of Bo McGuire’s Socks on Fire -- a...
View ArticleA History of Love Among Strangers: 'Jerker' at Out Front Theatre
PHOTO: TYLER OGBURN PHOTOGRAPHY Written and originally staged in Los Angeles in 1986, Robert Chesley’s one-act play Jerker bears a lengthy subtitle that evocatively suggests its themes and general...
View ArticleLOUDSPEAKER:: Poem by CJ Strauss
WUSSY is proud to present poetry by CJ Strauss.If you would like to send in a writing submission, please contact Nicholas Goodly. BangTake me, O flayer of finery,weekday priest of sour milk.On my...
View ArticleLOUDSPEAKER:: A Crown of Sonnets by Caelan Ernest
WUSSY is proud to present poetry by Caelan Ernest.If you would like to send in a writing submission, please contact Nicholas Goodly. violent nebulae glow up the wasteland!violent nebulae glow up the...
View ArticleA Ticklish Brainworm: A Conversation with Comedian & Actor, Cole Escola
PHOTOS: RYAN DUFFINDRESS: LOEWE The following interview and photo set appeared in WUSSY vol.09. To see the full feature, order your copy at the link here.Bach plays as a feather duster grazes floral...
View ArticleHollywood legend Lee Grant talks being blacklisted, 'Valley of the Dolls',...
Inside her sister-in-law’s bedroom, sheltered during this global pandemic, multi-Oscar winner, Emmy winner, once blacklisted, and first ever female DGA winner, Lee Grant, gives us some insight into...
View ArticlePick Your Problematic Favs for WUSSY PROM Court 2021
Photo: Savana OgbUrn It’s time for the triumphant return of WUSSY Prom!Previous winners Dotte Com, Mystery Meat, and Molly Rimswell are ready to give up their crowns after the longest. reign. ever!...
View ArticleLOUDSPEAKER:: 2 Poems by Jason B. Crawford
WUSSY is proud to present poetry by Jason B. Crawford.If you would like to send in a writing submission, please contact Nicholas Goodly. Notes on Turning Twenty Four after Coming Out to your...
View ArticleLOUDSPEAKER:: Poetry by Emily Morgan
WUSSY is proud to present poetry by Emily Morgan.If you would like to send in a writing submission, please contact Nicholas Goodly. The TrampolineHayden, AlAnd with the blessings of my mother,We...
View ArticleLOUDSPEAKER:: Poetry by Wylie Burrell
WUSSY is proud to present poetry by Wylie Burrell.If you would like to send in a writing submission, please contact Nicholas Goodly.NecrophileTen folkslistened at the knot holefor a whole lot moreyou...
View ArticleThe Georgia GOP is trying to bring back Jim Crow. These Queer Lawmakers of...
Representative Park Cannon and Renitta Shannon It’s summer in Georgia, y’all, and that means everything is hot – but nothing is hotter to me in this hot moment than a phalanx of young queer...
View ArticleIn Vestirse, John E. Kilberg Explores the thorny & reflexive beauty of...
Spanish-speaking viewers of the short film Vestirse – the latest from New York City-based filmmaker John e. Kilberg – will recognize the title as the reflexive verb “to dress oneself.” It’s a...
View ArticleLoudspeaker :: Preview of Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam
If there was ever a time for queer punk activist poetics, it’s now. Andrea Abi-Karam’s poetry collection Villainy by Nightboat Books is a fiery body of work about survival and grief as a trans and...
View ArticleMacy Rodman’s Electro-pop vivarium of ‘Unbelievable Animals’
Photo by @pvssyheaven The infamous 1995 VMA’s “feud” between Courtney Love and Madonna lingers in my subconscious as an oblique yet fitting framework for which to view Unbelievable Animals, the...
View Article13 Must-see Queer Films at Out on Film’s 2021 Festival
FIREBIRD Another year, another batch of LGBTQIA+ films being showcased at Out on Film! We’re in a slightly better shape than last year, or at the very least, an interesting intersection. Luckily for...
View ArticleAdore Delano, Aquaria, and Landon Cider Headline Our Pride Weekend in ATL
Pride weekend is here again in Atlanta!Despite the fact that the official Atlanta Pride parade and festivities have been canceled due to COVID, the city will still be alive with gatherings in the...
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