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Geeks OUT (also known as GeeksOUT!) is a New York City-based organization whose mission is to rally, empower, and promote the queer geek community. In 2013, Geeks OUT was designated as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization by the IRS. The content on its website often focuses on gaming, video gaming culture, comics, superheroes, science fiction, television, film, and other "geek" media, through a queer lens. Geeks OUT has left a "solid impact on geek culture." Geeks OUT came to international attention when it started a Skip Ender's Game movement in 2013. The movement, often promoted with the #SkipEndersGame hashtag, called for a boycott of the film Ender's Game, based on the novel Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Source

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Interview with content creator Alyshia “Lici” Rodgers

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By Michele Kirichanskaya
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Alyshia “Lici” Rodgers, otherwise known as YaGirlLici on Instagram and TikTok, is a Southern Mississippi Graphic Designer and watercolor artist. She has spent the last year creating content curating and providing commentary on asexual and aromantic representation in Popular Culture. Her social media platforms strive to help the Asexual & Aromantic community on how to approach advocating for more diversity in aro/ace representation on screen, in books, and more (or making posts to make you laugh) .
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Queer Creator Spotlight-Publishers Allied: FairSquare Graphics

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By Chris Allo
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Greetings comic book geeks, aficionados, nerds fanatic and all around appreciators! For this installment of the “Queer Creators Spotlight” we’re doing something a little different and going to talk to one of the most unique and diverse indy publishers out there today. The two time Eisner nominated, FairSquare Graphics.
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Interview with Tessa Yang Author of The Jellyfish Problem

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By Michele Kirichanskaya
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Tessa Yang is the author of the short story collection The Runaway Restaurant. Her work has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Cincinnati Review, Joyland, Foglifter, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Indiana University and currently lives in Upstate New York. This is her first novel. I had the opportunity to interview Tessa, which you can read below. First of all, welcome to Geeks OUT! Could you tell us a little about yourself?
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Interview with the Creators of Hey, Mary!, Andrew Wheeler and Rye Hickman

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By Michele Kirichanskaya
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Andrew Wheeler is a Toronto–based author born and raised in the south of England. His work includes the globetrotting heist comic Cat Fight, the occult noir Sins of the Black Flamingo, feminist fantasy comic Another Castle, and queer sports comedy Love and War. He is the author of the official Dungeons & Dragons cocktail book Puncheons & Flagons, co-author of the Dungeons & Dragons Young Adventurers Guides, and a contributor to the groundbreaking DC Pride and Marvel Voices: Prideanthologies.
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Interview with Mara Rutherford, Author of The Demonic Inventions of Aurelie Blake

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By Michele Kirichanskaya
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Mara Rutherford began her writing career as a journalist but quickly discovered she far preferred fantasy to reality. Originally from California, Mara has since lived all over the world with her Marine-turned-diplomat husband. A triplet born on Leap Day, Mara holds a master”s degree in cultural studies from the University of London.
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Interview with Rose Viña-Kathy, Author of Alicia Alonso Dances On

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By Michele Kirichanskaya
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First of all, welcome to Geeks OUT! Could you tell us a little about yourself? Hi! I’m a Cuban American writer from California. I earned my MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge. ICE BREAKER: How Mabel Fairbanks Changed Figure Skating was named an American Library Association 2021 Rise Honor book and a SCBWI 2020 Crystal Kite Award finalist. Both this book and my second book, ALICIA ALONSO DANCES ON, are part of Albert Whitman’s She Made History collection.
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Interview with Cassandra Khaw, Author of The Library at Hellebore

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By Michele Kirichanskaya
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CASSANDRA KHAW is an award-winning game writer, and USA Today bestseller. Khaw’s work can be found in places like Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Khaw’s first original novella, Hammers on Bone, was a British Fantasy award and Locus award finalist. I had the opportunity to interview Cassandra, which you can read below. CW: Mentions of body horror, gore, familial abuse, passive suicidal idealization. First of all, welcome to Geeks OUT! Could you tell us a little about yourself?
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Rebelle Interviews: Author & Illustrator Katie Risor

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By Rebelle Summers
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Children’s book author and illustrator Katie Risor is an artist of whimsy and wonder whose work maintains a loveliness that glows off the page. Welcome to the Forest: The Harvest Party, book one in her debut and seasonally-themed series was released back in August of 2025, with the next installment The Lake Trip, set to drop this June.
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Interview, with Peace Mbengei, Author of We Run the Night

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By Michele Kirichanskaya
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Peace Mbengei grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. She graduated from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelors degree in Medicine & Surgery and earned a Masters degree in Public Health from the University of London. She was longlisted for the 2019 Writivism short story prize and her short fiction has appeared in several magazines. She caught the writing bug when she was a little girl. Fortunately, they are yet to find a cure and she hopes they never will.
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Interview with Kat Cho, Author of Gods & Comics

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By Michele Kirichanskaya
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Kat Cho used to hide books under the bathroom sink and then sneak in there to read after bedtime. Her parents pretended not to know. This was helpful when she decided to write a dinosaur time-travel novel at the tender age of nine. Sadly, that book was not published. She currently lives in New York City and spends her free time trying to figure out what kind of puppy to adopt. Kat is the New York Times and international bestselling author of the Gumiho duology, Once Upon a K-Prom, and Gods & Comics.
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