The state of Tennessee has a long history of political discrimination against its 225,000 LGBTQ citizens. In 2019, a district attorney remarked that gay people should not receive domestic violence protections, and in 2023, for five months in Murfreesboro, homosexual acts in public were illegal, prompting a federal judge to have the ordinance removed.

A writing house dedicated to democratizing story telling, founded by Tyler Kania, author of The Maniac with No Knees.

It’s said that a drowning man may grasp even the point of a sword to save himself; well Tyler Kania hasn’t needed to go that far, but he did grasp a rugby ball, and it’s the rugby ball that will save him.