Results for: meet up
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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
December 13th! We hope you won’t ghost us!
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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A with Sarah Thankam Mathews
This time, we’re reading All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, a book our Managing Editor Kayla called “so good I dreaded finishing it.”
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‘A Good Happy Girl’ Oozes With Lesbian Kink and Familial Pain
This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until both small joys and small discomforts are compounded into the same nauseating grotesquerie.
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Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature
The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.
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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces
Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going to Disneyworld but not giving up your data, the reborn doll community, the Iron Claw, the tyranny of a mother’s vanity, how group chats rule the world and more!
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16 Gay M/M Romance Novels To Read After “Red, White and Royal Blue”
If you loved “Red, White & Royal Blue,” here’s 15 more gay romance novels, aka m/m romance, featuring two men doing cute and also erotic things together!
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Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind
I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.
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Andie Burke’s “Fly With Me” Takes Sapphic Fake Dating to New Heights
Yes, there’s grief. But Fly With Me is one of the swooniest, funniest, sexiest books I’ve ever read.
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Author Lydia Conklin on Being Queer in the 90s and Writing Characters in Transitional Moments
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
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69 Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2024
What’s on the horizon for queer books in March, April, and May? New work from Judith Butler, K-Ming Chang, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and so much more.
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Things I Read That I Love #333: Erewhon, Melrose Place, The Bowel Unit, Blurred Lines and Crosswords
Ruby Tandoh on selling the seaside, nobody knows what’s happening online anymore, Caity Weaver looks for Tom Cruise near the airport, Patricia Lockwood takes her husband to the Bowel Unit, a journey through the annals of “Blurred Lines,” we ask if crosswords can be more inclusive and more longreads for your weekend.
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Rainbow Reading: This Upcoming Book Is a Queer Retelling of Robin Hood About DYKES ON BIKES
It sounds like Robin Hood meets Fast and the Furious and very GAY.
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Two Women Find Love in a Quirky Southern Town in “Love and Hot Chicken”
Slow burn romance in a small Southern town gives this queer novel its heat.
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Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present
If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”
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“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers
There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.
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Sapphic Romance Books To Give Your Heart a Spring Refresh
If you’re looking for something that evokes spring, whether literally or figuratively, this list of YA and Adult Romance has you covered.
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81 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Summer 2023
Kai Cheng Thom’s new book of essays is coming out in August, the first two books from Roxane Gay’s brand new press are releasing, Elliot Page’s much anticipated memoir is available, Jacqueline Carey is returning to her Kushiel’s universe, and more!
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Eight Romance Novels Featuring Trans Women, by Trans Authors
We’ve got fantasy romance, contemporary romance, YA science fiction comic romance, historical romance, and more!
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“Men I Trust” Is a Beautiful Graphic Novel About Loneliness, Connection, and Capitalism
Tommi Parrish’s stunning new graphic novel Men I Trust is about two lonely women. It appears to be the story of their connection, but as it unravels it becomes darker, deeper, and, ultimately, in its own way, more hopeful.
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Eight New Queer Indigenous Books
Poetry, contemporary YA, science fiction, short stories, essay collections, graphic novels, and more!