Results for: tomboy femme
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Eight Romance Books Featuring Butches, Studs, and Masc of Center Characters
These are mostly contemporary romances, with themes and tropes such as second chance relationships, sports, reality TV, fake relationships, online dating, ghosting, age gaps, and more!
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“Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl” Is a Swoony Queer Neurodiverse Romance
I’m not sure I’ve ever laughed and swooned, simultaneously, as much as I did while reading Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl, a queer high school romance that features two neurodiverse characters from wildly different worlds.
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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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In The Terrible We, Cameron Awkward-Rich Makes Space for Bad Trans Feelings
How do we hold transness and disability together, rather than denying the ways the “bad feelings” like dysphoria and anxiety have historically been a key part of trans thought, art, politics, and media?
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Queer Books Across America: Incredible Lesbian and Queer Novels and Memoirs Set in Every State
Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.
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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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75 of the Best Queer Books of 2021
It was a banner year for queer horror! Plus, fantasy, historical fiction, memoir, nonfiction, YA, middle grade, poetry picks — and so much more!
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75 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Fall 2021
This fall we’ve got terrifying queer horror, swoony lesbian romance, cute sapphic YA, intriguing lit fic, monstrous women in fantasy and sci fi, new feminist history books, and much more!
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Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!
We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.
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80 of the Best Queer, Lesbian and Bisexual Books of the Decade
It sure has been a decade! Mainstream publishing has become much more open to queer stories, especially perhaps in YA, and the drive and determination of indie and queer publishing projects has meant that less saleable work that is sometimes more resonant to our lives has been able to make it to our shelves. Here are some of the brightest highlights!
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8 Soft Femme Memoirs for Your Femme But Not Too Femmey Needs
The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.
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8 Books That Feature Queer Jewish Women to Read Right Now
Here are eight awesome books with queer Jewish women characters, from YA to literary fiction to historical fiction and more!
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Baby-Sitters Club Creator Ann M. Martin is Queer, How Did I Not Know This
She also identifies as “a Mary Ann.”
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8 Books Featuring Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women
Looking for clearly queer Asian and Pacific Islander women in fiction? Look no further.
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8 Books with Masculine-of-Center Characters and No Sexual Assault
Many books that feature masculine women characters or characters on the trans masculine spectrum show sexual assault. These ones don’t.
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Lez Liberty Lit #85: We Are Not A Trend
“Let us remember that we become the stories we tell.” Also: an early Horcrux, books women should not read, monstrous bad spelling and more.
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9+ Queer Canadian Poets to Break Your Heart and Put It Back Together Again
Queer Canadian poets tend to be experimental, to push against boundaries. They tell it like it is, challenge our ways of thinking, and actively organize for change. Their words are hilarious, heartbreaking, and wise. Here are some queer Canadian poets — mostly female-identified — whose words have changed my world for the better.
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Read All Of The Books: The Fall 2013 Queer Books Preview
The 50 most essential queer books coming this fall.
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28 Books About Gay Geography That’ll Take You On Journeys Through Time and Place
If you like lesbian history as much as I do, then you’ll love all these books about queer life in various towns, states, cities and countries. Your input is welcome!