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New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife
There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious thoughts about queerness and what it means to be a queer person.
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Julie Delporte Wanted To Be a Lesbian Even Before She Was Sexually Attracted to Women
At 35, Delporte’s acceptance of her sexuality serves as a catalyst that helps her understand her relationships, her interests, her experiences with boys and young men as a young woman, and, especially, her body.
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Lamya H on Queer Muslim Community and Leslie Feinberg’s Influence on Their Memoir
“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”
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Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents
For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.
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“Fieldwork” Review: A Lush, Chewy Memoir Full of Mushrooms
Michelin-star chef Iliana Regan takes you back to her family’s farmhouse.
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Michelle Tea on Queer Pregnancy and Writing a Memoir in Present Tense
“I really want it to feel like you fell down a rabbit hole into this world, because that’s how I felt. That was the reality of the experience for me.”
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In “Pageboy,” Elliot Page Gets Vulnerable About Gender Dysphoria, Trans Joy, and Much More
Like a lot of millennials my age, I grew up watching Elliot Page’s films and his ascent to stardom
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Cecilia Gentili’s “Faltas” Is One of the Best Memoirs I’ve Ever Read
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist is an exciting and, at times, breathtaking addition to the canon of works about “messy trans lives.”
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A Memoir Isn’t a Self-Help Book
Author Jeanna Kadlec talks about her new memoir Heretic, the loss of leaving a life, gay Bible stories, and more.
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In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History
What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active history of a place that most people are unfamiliar with.
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Chris Belcher’s “Pretty Baby” Examines the Power of Shame in Our Culture
You don’t have to look very closely to see that shame is one of the foremost organizing principles of our society.
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Jeanna Kadlec’s “Heretic” Is a Memoir for the Witches Who Grew From Good Christian Women
Heretic is part memoir, part cultural critique, part political analysis, and part history, all viewed through the queer lens of a woman who grew up in the Midwest trying her hardest to be a Good Christian Girl, before finally accepting she’s a lesbian and nearly gnawing off her own arm to escape before she could be burned at the stake.
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Butch Memoirs To Check Out in Honor of “Hijab Butch Blues”
This is not an exhaustive list of butch memoirs, and I would love to hear about more.
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“Burning Butch” Is the Trans Butch Memoir We’ve Always Needed
We’ve always needed books like Burning Butch out in the world reminding us that it’s possible to fight back, to overcome, and to survive despite all odds.
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Chloe Caldwell on First Periods, PMDD, and That Weird Blue “Blood” in Tampon Commercials
The author discusses her new memoir “The Red Zone,” which chronicles her experiences with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and provides a kaleidoscopic view of how people feel about their periods.
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Chris Belcher on “Pretty Baby,” Dungeon Dynamics, and the Expansiveness of Queer Sex
“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”
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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
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Power Is Searingly Political and Personal In Melissa Febos’ “Girlhood”
Secrets, silence, internalized misogyny, power, desire, and the catastrophic — yet very common — ways in which girls are harmed as they grow into women are all themes that Febos examines in “Girlhood,” an essay collection that blends memoir, journalism, and cultural critique.
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Talking with Alison Bechdel about Feminist Martial Arts, Lockdown, and Her New Book “The Secret to Superhuman Strength”
“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement. Alison Bechdel shares her process of writing this latest book over the last ten years, collaborating with her partner, and the “huge blossoming of lesbian culture.”
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“Everybody (Else) Is Perfect,” Gabrielle Korn’s Debut Essay Collection, Examines the Media World She Helped Create
“Everybody (Else) Is Perfect” is a bold and complicated meditation on media, feminism, and the internet, written from the perspective of a thoughtful and deeply honest insider. It is also very, very gay.