Results for: underwear
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Ciara Smyth’s Queer YA Books Remind Me of Being a Teenager
The Falling In Love Montage (2020) and Not My Problem (2021) are as hilarious as they are moving.
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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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55 Literary Books With Great Lesbian Sex Inside Them
Novels, memoirs, essay and short story collections that are really good and also have lesbian sex in them! Wow!
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In Queer Horror Anthology “It Came From the Closet,” Carmen Maria Machado Considers Jennifer’s Body
On queerbaiting, bisexuality, and Jennifer’s Body. This essay is an exclusive excerpt from the queer horror anthology It Came From the Closet, on sale next week.
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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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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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“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life
When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.
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“In Intimate Detail” Is the Singular Guide to Lingerie – and It’s Queer-Inclusive
“I’ve had conversations with brands where they’ve been very explicit about who their customers weren’t. They weren’t plus size people. They weren’t queer people. They weren’t people of color. And those attitudes affect me as well as a black, queer woman.”
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Things I Read That I Love #246: To Be A Work-in-Progress Is Nearly Unacceptable
Topics include Taylor Swift, Dylan Roof, where your Forever 21 shirts get made, Colin Kaepernick, reading Jane Eyre while black, Milk Bar, the sorrow and shame of the accidental killer, and more.
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Emilie Wapnick’s How To Be Everything
Why pick between your passions when you can design a life based on ALL of them?
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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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Things I Read That I Love #195: Turning From Something Ugly Into Something Beautiful
Topics include PeeWee Herman, Winona Ryder, “Making a Murderer,” dating TV shows, the 1966 University of Texas shooting and moar!
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Were We Ever So Young: Rereading Julie Anne Peters’ “Luna” for the Seventh Time
Luna opened a door for me — no, it opened a thousand doors, doors that I’ve been confidently walking through ever since I came out.
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Fan Fiction Friday: 7 Baby-Sitters Club Femslash Fics to Take You Way Back
Kristy and Mary Ann always belonged together, and don’t you forget it.
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50 Shades of Non-Consent: Editing BDSM Erotica as a Queer Top
“The path of least resistance is to write off 50 Shades of Grey as harmless fluff, but frankly, after editing over one hundred novels full of distortions and abuse, I don’t think I could respect myself if I did so.”
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Dear Queer Diary: Summer Re-Reading
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
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Lez Liberty Lit #15: A Blind Date With Literary Knickers
Underwear from lesbian fiction, a defence of reading, queer love letters, killer courses and more.
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Things I Read That I Love #66: Reading In Underpants
This week’s TIRTL includes a special Underwear Week section, as well as pieces on topics including Jehovah’s Witness, onscreen violence, sex abuse, robots, fan fiction, junk food and Alaska.
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Things I Read That I Love #50: Habitat Habit!
Topics include serial television programs, Mr. Rogers, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, caffeine, underground new york city, boomtown North Dakota, marching band hazing, murder and so much more!
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Some Weird and Not So Weird Habits of Famous Authors
Intern Bren’s Team Pick: Are you weirder than some of history’s weirdest authors? Probably and that’s why I love you.