Results for: read a f*cking book
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Jen Winstons’ Greedy Reminds You To Remember The “And”
“I learned to accept that I contain multitudes, and neither my sexual orientation nor gender identity are exempt from my multifaceted nature.”
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Hurts So Good Reveals That Masochism Is Everywhere
Hurts So Good showcases pain experts of all types for a more holistic understanding of why and how we use pain for pleasure.
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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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‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods
No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the way some of us still interact with our worlds today.
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Rosalie Knecht’s Vera Kelly Is Not A Mystery, But Is a Gay Noir Must-Read
There’s another kind of revolution happening within this sequel, and that’s where Knecht really blows the doors off the noir genre.
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Read a F*cking Book: N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy Is a Revolution
N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy, which ended with The Stone Sky just a few months ago, asks the opposite of the questions posed by other epic fantasy series. What if the world doesn’t deserve to be saved? What if the most righteous thing a hero can do is watch the earth burn?
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Jenn Shapland Names What Needs Naming in “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers”
It has taken over 50 years for us to get the full, queer truth about Carson McCullers’s life, and now I know why. We were waiting for Jenn Shapland.
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Read a F-cking Book: Nicole Georges’s “Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home”
“Fetch” is a beautiful love letter to a pet, a coming of age story, and an exploration of all the complexities of what it really means to take care of another living being.
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Read A F-cking Book: SJ Sindu’s “Marriage Of A Thousand Lies”
Lucky’s been walking a thin line. She desperately wants to maintain a relationship with her family, and especially with her mother, but she also aches to live as an out lesbian.
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“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Is a Smart, Feminist Thriller – and Also a Very Cool F*cking Book
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” is a direct response to GamerGate… and a searing indictment of the political nightmare it foreshadowed.
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Read A F*cking Book Club: Let’s Talk About The Handmaid’s Tale
Everything on the internet you need to read about The Handmaid’s Tale, plus our discussion!
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Read A F*cking Book: “In Full Velvet,” by Jenny Johnson
Immerse yourself in these poems and prepare to come out raw and clean.
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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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Read A F*cking Book: “Go Deep” by Leigh Matthews
The latest installment in the All Out Vancouver series brings back all our favorite characters — and some heavy themes.
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Read a F*cking Book: “The Regulars” is a Feminist Fairy Tale, Kinda
Three twenty-something friends living in New York City accidentally acquire a mysterious liquid substance called Pretty, that, when imbibed, turns the drinker into a physically augmented version of themselves. Shenanigans ensue.
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“Black on Both Sides” Disrupts Black and Trans History as You Know It
Blackness and transness interconnect in this radical history of not just black and trans people, but also where beliefs about black and trans people come from.
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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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“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison Is the Black Herstory I Needed as a Child
“Close your eyes and imagine for one moment a world where little black girls spend their entire childhoods seeing women like the ones they will become in just as many books, television shows, awards ceremonies, universities, political offices, magazines, advertisements and leadership positions as their white peers do. Really picture it, and then ask yourself: what would that future look like?”
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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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Read a F*cking Book: “Oscar of Between” Embraces Transitional Spaces
Warland, and Oscar of Between, is refreshingly unconcerned with being there already. Instead, she deep-dives into the potency of occupying transitional spaces, the beauty of being in-between.