finally got through this book, even if a lot of things came up in between. i loved the range of emotions and settings that it covered, and the focus on people of colour. i also liked how many of the stories left the characters' sexualities ambiguous, because a label isn't necessary to feel love and to be queer. i think my only gripe would the lack of pronouns outside the gender binary, both in the stories themselves and among the array of authors. hope the sequel brings in a bit more of that. 

my favourite story was 'the dresser and the chambermaid' by robin talley, because i like such happy endings :)