This time of anticipation is itself a kind of queer liminality, living always in anticipation of the moment that has not yet arrived… –Alison Kafer, Feminist, Queer, Crip Despite what inspirational stories will have you believe, the judgments of who...

Growing up with Guyanese and Trinidadian backgrounds, weight was always a subject of discussion, and rarely in a neutral or positive way. Many of my family members are fat. You’d think that fatness would be normalized but it is in...

I really wish that this revenge tasted sweet. I wish that I could find a modicum of snarled “I fucking told you so”–type joy in the recent news from south of the border. Roe v. Wade, a privacy case itself,...

Dear Jas, Arielle, Emily, Nickita, Brandi, I can’t help but be embarrassingly earnest. Being a part of the GUTS editorial collective, working with you all, and seeing this stunning REVENGE issue come together has been really beautiful. The theme, too,...

Mean Old Ladies Monstrous mothers are not a new development in horror. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock would set into motion the first hagsploitation cycle with his popular adaptation of Robert Bloch’s novel of the same name: Psycho. In the now-classic...

GUTS is back, bbs! We are a collective of feminist editors who don’t see our communities’s interests represented in Canadian and American media and publishing. We were able to get where we are today—positions where we can support and mentor...

The REVENGE Issue there are many hungers— no matter, i am not the hungry one here. — jaye simpson, “beautiful monsters in uncanny valley,” it was never going to be okay We are witnessing a shift in the ways history...

Listen to “We Can’t Stop Here: Lessons from an American Road Trip” Growing up, I remember craning the antenna on my stereo to catch the frequency from Buffalo’s premiere hip hop station, WBLK. Somehow through the radio, America—and the vibrant...