Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham are the creative, queer and trans power couple behind the incredible and beautiful book The Gay Agenda: A Modern Queer History and Handbook (Morrow Gift, 2020).
You can follow them and their stationery story at ashandchess.com and follow them on Instagram @ashandchess.
We dig into where they grew up, how they met, the “so 2018” way their book came to be, and much, much more.
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Ash and Chess’s Bookshelf for the Apocalypse*
Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity by Thomas Page McBee
The Twits by Roald Dahl
The Hike by Drew Magary
Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
The Fireside Book of Children’s Songs
*: These are not affiliate links. Brendan does not get a commission based on book sales, though he acknowledges this is probably really stupid not to.