Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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Queer Early Medieval: LGBTQ+ History Month

To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month I’ll be talking to Cheryl Morgan about gender and sexuality in 7th-C Britain, and why I chose to write Hild as bisexual.

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Posted on January 26, 2021 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Mass murder and the consequences of hate

I woke up today to news that an American citizen went to, Pulse, a queer nightclub in Orlando, F, and shot and killed at least 50 people and injured at least 50 more. This is the worst mass shooting in US history. It was aimed squarely at QUILTBAG folk (and on a club’s “weekly upscale Latin night”).

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Posted on June 12, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Hild’s sexuality

I’ve been asked this often enough that it’s time to be clear: Hild is not straight. Interviewers and reviewers have already asked…

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Posted on October 15, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Brit Mandelo interview, part 3 (of 3)

[This is Part 3 of my long, conversational interview with Brit Mandelo, editor of Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and sexually fluid speculative fiction (Lethe Press, April…

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Posted on April 27, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Interview with BEYOND BINARY’S Brit Mandelo, Part 1 (of 3)

This is a long, conversational interview with Brit Mandelo, editor of Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and sexually fluid speculative fiction (Lethe Press, April 2012),…

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Posted on April 25, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Donate a book for quiltbag YA readers

What a cool idea: Lambda Literary Foundation‘s My Story Book Club for quiltbag YA readers now has a donation programme. My Story aims to…

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Posted on April 20, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Resilience

A student of mine, Eric Nguyen, has edited a marvellous book, Resilience: To be queer and young is to be STRONG. To…

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Posted on January 26, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The long slow march towards LGBTQIA equality

official White House photo by Pete Souza A week ago, Kerry Eleveld interviewed Pres. Obama in the Advocate. President Obama tells The…

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Posted on December 29, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The future of queer publishing

Over at LambdaLiterary there are four video clips of a recent panel held in West Hollywood, The Future of Queer Publishing. The…

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Posted on July 8, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Calling all SF readers, and queer YA writers

Want to read future Hugo-winning f/sf? Well, for the price of becoming a supporting member of Aussicon 4, the world science fiction…

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Posted on May 5, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

BlueSolitaire, a new discussion list

A few years ago, a book lover built two email lists, BluePlace and Ammonite, for the purpose of discussing, respectively, crime fiction…

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Posted on January 4, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

queer literary community: our time is coming

Elliott Bay, one of Seattle’s storied independent book shops, is moving from Pioneer Square to Capitol Hill. It’s good news for me….

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Posted on December 11, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

new world first for the quiltbag nation

At hunter of justice, this news: Openly gay man appointed to South Africa’s highest court In a genuinely pathbreaking act, South African…

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Posted on January 6, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

what is Obama thinking?

So, what is Obama thinking with his selection of Rick Warren to give the invocation at the inauguration? We all know that…

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Posted on December 18, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

War Machine, Time Machine

This summer, Liverpool University Press published Queer Universes: Sexualities and Science Fiction, edited by Wendy Gay Pearson, Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon….

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Posted on December 2, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Joe Biden

Obama picked Joe Biden. Big surprise. What did surprise me is Biden’s relatively good record on quiltbag issues. According to Waymon Hudson…

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Posted on August 24, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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