Christina Orlando
BOOKS & POP CULTURE
Hello!
Christina Orlando (they/them) is a writer, editor, and creative professional based in Brooklyn. Currently they are the Books Editor for Tor.com, where they get to be a book nerd all day. As a freelance writer covering poetry, gender, and sexuality, their work has appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, gal-dem, THEM, Adroit Journal, and Book Riot. They are the winner of Spotify’s 2019 Sound Up grant for people of color in podcasting and a 2021 Publisher’s Weekly Star Watch Honoree. They are a champion for diversity in the literary community, and dedicated to supporting marginalized voices across the publishing industry. You can find them on Twitter at @cxorlando
Selected Clips
Creating a Queer Hopepunk Canon: Lady Gaga, Janelle Monae, Lil Nas X, and the Visual Narration of Joyful Queer Futurism
For queer creators like Gaga, hopepunk ideology becomes narrative fuel, a vehicle through which to be loud, proud, and unapologetic in working towards a future filled with joy, love, and dancing. And she works alongside other queer creators in doing so, effectively creating a queer hopepunk canon…
This Green Velvet Jacket Helped Me Understand My Nonbinary Identity
I realized early that my gender was prone to fluctuation. By sixteen I was already moving through life as a nonbinary person, though I wouldn’t have the right language to describe myself until I was in my twenties…
Traveling Between Genders in V.E. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic
At the time I first read A Darker Shade of Magic, I was only just starting to figure out my relationship with gender. I’ll admit that I came to it later in life – before my mid-twenties, I hadn’t heard anyone use the term ‘genderfluid’ or ‘nonbinary’ before…
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