Author: Milo Todd
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“How to Alienate Your Queer Self During a Pride Literary Event”, GrubWrites, June 2017
How to Alienate Your Queer Self During a Pride Literary Event Milo Todd This post originally appeared in GrubWrites, June 2017. To kick off Pride Month this year, on June 5th GrubStreet hosted an event at Trident Booksellers called “Queering Literature: A Pride Panel.” Freaking awesome idea, amirite? It’s rare to get to see some…
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“How Novelists Recover History’s Marginalized Heroes”, GrubWrites, July 2016
I started off as a fiction writer with one goal and one goal only: create and bring to life protagonists from off the beaten path. I wanted complex, accurate portrayals of LGBTQ people. People of color. Poor people. People living with disabilities or without families or struggling with PTSD.
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“The Death of a Great Vol. 6: Katherine Dunn (1945-2016)”, GrubWrites, July 2016
There’s something downright otherworldly about coming across a fantastic book exactly at the time you need its message most. Once upon a midnight, I struggled with my queerness. Not so much knowing whether or not I was in the spectra, but rather grappling with what this meant for my worth as a person. I would…
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“Writing While Poor: Chasing the Dream You Know You Can’t Have”, Dead Darlings, July 2016
When author circles inevitably talk about what it is they need to write—two hours of Pilates, a stiff glass of Johnnie Walker Blue, a nap—I go quiet in a squirmy kind of way. When I’m told I should really travel or go on retreats in order to inspire my craft, I nod politely. When I…
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“8 Ways Allies Can Show Up for the Queer Community After Orlando”, Everyday Feminism, June 2016
I’m seeing a lot of allies doing the “my prayers are with you” thing in light of the tragedy that took place at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. 49 queer folks, primarily Latinx, were shot dead and 53 more were injured that night – and all you have to offer to our community is a…