ASU Humanities Institute

For Pride Month, we’re revisiting a few books by writers from the Piper and ASU creative writing community:

The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz
To Name the Bigger Lie by Sarah Viren

Three very different books - a YA novel, a poetry collection, and a memoir-in-essays - each attentive to questions of identity, intimacy, language, and the stories we inherit.

Have you read any of these yet? Drop your favorite LGBTQ+ reads in the comments so we can keep building our summer TBR list.

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We can't believe the semester is over! Shout-out to the incredible fellows who completed their fellowship year with us: Evan Berry, Peter Joseph Torres, Linh Vu, Jed Samer, Mónica Espaillat Lizardo and Rachel Corbman! 👏

We're thrilled to share Dan Gilfillan is joining the Humanities Institute as the 2026-27 Research Development Fellow! A Humanities Institute seed grant recipient with over a decade of institutional history, Dan will assist with programming development, national alliance-building and grant initiatives. Learn more: https://news.asu.edu/b/20260508-asu-humanities-institute-announces-research-development-fellow