patti vasquez

Interviews, LGBTQ+, Queer Stories

14 min read

“By Hook or By Crook” at 25: Silas Howard and Harry Dodge on Friendship, Queer Cinema, and Radical Tenderness

by Rebecca Martin

June 5, 2026

Some films seem to find you when you’re finally ready for them. In 2023, I spoke with filmmaker and writer Guinevere Turner about her memoir, When the World Didn’t End,

Chicago, Comedy, Interviews

10 min read

Patti Vasquez brings representation onstage and behind the mic

by Rebecca Martin

June 11, 2019

Patti Vasquez is a renaissance woman: She’s the host of “The Patti Vasquez Show” on Chicago’s WGN Radio, a stand-up comedian, and the founder of With Kind Words, a consulting

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