Results for: read a f*cking book
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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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“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: “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.
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Myriam Gurba’s Floating World in “Mean”
Gurba’s writing feels devastating and holy and hilarious all at once, like a dead sea scroll that is as fun to read as an old issue of Playboy.
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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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Now Is A Good Time To Get Into Patricia Lockwood
Priestdaddy, the poet’s new coming-of-age memoir, has a lot of twists and a lot of power.
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For Runaways, Survivors and Dreamers: “Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars”
Runaways, witches, and girl gangs: a review and conversation with Kai Cheng Thom on her new book, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.
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In “Body Horror,” Anne Elizabeth Moore Examines How Consumer Feminism Is Failing Us — and Is Itself Failing
“So, are menstrual bags good, or are they bad? Do they empower women, or further constrict them? It becomes obvious that this is not a zero-sum game, and Moore illuminates the coexistence of multiple conflicting truths.”
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Read A F*cking Book: The Right Side Of History
These 30 essays provide important context and understanding of individuals, movements and moments that formed the greater whole of a long fight for queer liberation, one that is far from over but which has made incredible strides in just a few decades.
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“Queer & Trans Artists of Color Vol. 2” Is Required Resistance Reading
“Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Volume Two,” with interviews by King and edited by Elena Rose, is a collection of 16 interviews with queer and trans artists of color that inspire, empower and give an intimate glance into the creative process of some of the most interesting artists in the world.
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“Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation” Is The Book For Right Now
Is there enough room to practice compassion at the same time that we notice we’re being manipulated and dehumanized? How much of our own humanity is taken away from us when we don’t allow ourselves the emotional space to practice love in any circumstance?
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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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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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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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Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years, Jahren has earned accolades for her work. Here, she shares her passion.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “Dirty River”
“This memoir will appeal to those seeking a gritty, glorious, multi-layered story of homecoming and self-healing.”
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Read A F*cking Book: ‘G.R.I.T.S.’ Is So Much More Than Food
This shiny new collection of queer Southern poetry and stories is guaranteed to stick to your ribs.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Rae Theodore’s “Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender”
A smart and eloquent memoir about becoming butch, Leaving Normal: Adventures in Gender will resonate if you have a proud copy of Stone Butch Blues on your shelf, or listen to “Ring of Keys” from the Fun Home musical on repeat.
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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.”