Results for: read a f*cking book
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Lez Liberty Lit: The End
Over the decade-ish that I’ve been writing this column, the number of published queer and trans stories has exploded.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Just for the Sake of It
The transformative power of queer breakups, exploring the ongoing trauma of the AIDS crisis, some 2021 faves, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Do Not Privatize Libraries
Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Queer Books as Hydra
The color-coded bookshelf conversation continues, queer books are unstoppable, queerness in Sally Rooney’s work, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Love Is Renewable
Are you considering NaNoWriMo? Plus, a library from Solange, how literary gatekeepers can elevate Black trans women writers, queer webcomics and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Liminal Spaces
Queer time and liminal spaces, a library facing possible charges for carrying sex education books, the myth of universality in literature, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Engineering a Hot Streak
The dark side of the golden trans literary moment, what your emoji use says about how old you are (probably), what a hot streak means for artistic success and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Ground Yourself
Creating work while living with chronic pain, a brief grounding exercise, the state of ambiguous loss and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: A Gaping MAW
A great new horror comic, what to do when things feel scattered, a new Octavia Butler biography, the possibility of wandering in the digital age and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Time, Faith, Momentum
Phones belong in museums, the magic ingredients for creativity, why work is not the same as identity and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Has Simply Had Enough of Drowning
How to live in a burning world without losing your mind, read these books in the second half of 2021, why to reconsider air conditioning, uncategorized creative work, a love poem and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Discipline Is Part of Creation
On writing regularly, an approach for overwhelm, a book of botanical drawings and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: James Baldwin’s Record Collection
James Baldwin’s record collection as a playlist, procrastination and writer’s block and whether or not they’re value neutral and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Counterfactual Realities
How memory works, BOOK IT nostalgia, why pleasure should never be guilty and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Spontaneous Touch
Rediscovering spontaneous touch through reading, starting something new, the secret feminist history of the Oxford Dictionary and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Watching Eliza Bright
This is a We Are Watching Eliza Bright appreciation post. Plus: reading in the morning, the collapse of the dream of eternity, learning queer community and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: How Do Plague Stories End?
How DO plague stories end? Plus, “non-binary” in Italian, was this one feminist classic actually trash, the Tamagotchi cemetery and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: A Phantom from the Jump
Not reading anything for a week, an interview with jamie hood, bathroom libraries, a short story collection of Sarahs and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Loiter
It’s ok not to remember everything that you read, a new fund for Black creatives, and what is it like to explore childhood horror through the lens of queer adulthood?
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Lez Liberty Lit: Inefficient Writing
Trans writing for trans people, “Everybody Else (Is) Perfect” is perfect, your dream job is dead and more.