Results for: meet up
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Sophie Santos’ Memoir Takes Us On Her Queer Path To The Lesbian Agenda
No one’s life is split into two simple chapters. Santos lets all her former eras live right next to each other in the mirror.
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“When Katie Met Cassidy” Is the Queer Romance We Deserve
Reading “When Katie Met Cassidy” felt like closing a wound left open by other queer/same-sex romances that came before it.
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Mal Ortberg’s Creepy New Book Is Coming Out and Mal Is Too
If The Merry Spinster seems almost fixated on gender, it’s because Ortberg began participating in gender therapy and exploring identity while writing it, and “It turns out I’m trans!”
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How to Live in Paris, Get Kissed a Lot, Write a Memoir About It
“By the end of the seventies, women were in fashion: every Parisian woman, gay or straight, fell in love with women as if it were the most natural thing in the world.”
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Rebel Girls: “The Crunk Feminist Collection” is the New Year’s Read Feminists Need
This is the year the resistance takes shape. And for feminists looking for a roadmap, The Crunk Feminist Collection is the newly-printed guidebook that sets the path.
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When Death Makes You Kind: Beyond Survival In Gwen Benaway’s “Passage”
“In the words of Notting Hill, “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” Or more realistically, I’m just a girl, standing in front of KFC, praying that it’s open.”
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Read A F*cking Book: M-E Girard’s Novel “Girl Mans Up” Powerfully Explores Minefields of Gender
“Girard’s writing is special in the way it speaks the language of our lived experience of moving through and within gender — inching, painfully slow, changeable, delightful, sexy, and made manifest in a thousand tiny ways, often between people and between words, unspoken.”
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Attempting to Contain Everything: Dodie Bellamy’s “When the Sick Rule the World”
“I finally felt that I was being led by someone as deliciously ill-equipped at being in this world as I am. And by the time it was over I thought the book was masterfully human, cerebral but self-aware, wistful, curious, judgmental, forgiving, repentant and broken.”
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Read A F*cking Book: “The Mystics of Mile End”
In Sigal Samuel’s The Mystics of Mile End, three members of the Meyer family encounter Jewish mysticism, and are drawn apart in their very different quests for the divine.
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Read A F*cking Book: Robin Talley’s What We Left Behind
Despite its shortcomings when it comes to theory, the story does the important work of allowing the characters to ask questions and struggle with their identities.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “Fledgling” and Queer Black Vampire Mythology
If you’re interested in seeing the complexities of polyamorous relationships interpreted through the lens of speculative fiction, or in reading a quietly queer sci-fi great’s exploration of sexual fluidity, Fledgling will be up your alley.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Jennica Harper’s “What It Feels Like for a Girl”
What It Feels Like for a Girl centers on two 13-year-olds who meet in gym class: the narrator, addressed in a piercing second person that has the effect of melding our stories with hers, and precocious Angel, who guides her through a labyrinth of sexual exploration via magazines and videos.
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Read a F*cking Book: “Out of Orange” is the Real Life Alex Vause’s True Story
You know about Alex Vause, but you may not know much about Catherine Cleary Wolters, the drug-smuggling lesbian in thick-rimmed glasses who inspired her character. That’s where Out of Orange comes in.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Irena Klepfisz’s “Dreams of an Insomniac”
“If you have a cherished copy of Sisterhood is Powerful on your shelf, or a fascination with the ways tragedies are remembered and forgotten, you’ll enjoy this book.”
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The Speakeasy Book Club #1: Let’s Talk About “Sister Outsider”
“Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.”
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Read a F*cking Book: Read Best Sex Writing 2013 Before 2013 Is Over
If I had to compare this book to a physical object, it would be a box of chocolates. But not fluffy, easy chocolates – I’m not talking Russell Stover, here. I’m talking complex chocolates, probably with liqueur in them.
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Autostraddle Book Club #7: Let’s Talk “Blue Is The Warmest Color” and Win an Autographed Copy!
Did you read the book? Now it’s time to join in the discussion! We have questions, you have answers, and hopefully additional questions. It’s a book club! Let’s go!
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Ashley Catharine Is A Pure Poet: The Autostraddle Review of “Year of the Mermaid”
Inside Year of the Mermaid is Ashley’s story. And it’s eerie how similar it sounds to yours.
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Read A F*cking Book: Canary
Canary, a debut collection of queerish short stories from Nancy Jo Cullen, is all about the everyday. And the weird.
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We Are Family: S. Bear Bergman’s “Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter”
Maybe my mom was onto something. Maybe family really is everything, so long as you build it yourself.