Results for: book
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How To Fight Back Against Book Bans
However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.
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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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Holigay Gift Guide: What To Buy for Book Lovers (Other Than Books)
If it’s too much pressure to pick out a book for your literary pal, consider a creative display shelf, a customizable book planter, pressed flower bookmarks, and other presents that are bookish but not books!
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Keah Brown on Her New Picture Book and the Importance of Disability Representation for Children
“I was excited to talk about rest for children, to talk about how even rest can be an adventure.”
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Malinda Lo on Her Historic National Book Award Win and Lesbian Literature’s History and Future
Malinda Lo talks about writing queerness in different genres, butch/femme dynamics in literature, and the gay Macy’s of the 1960s that didn’t make it into her book.
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Malinda Lo Won a National Book Award for “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” — And I Yelled
Malinda Lo’s National Book Award win for Last Night at the Telegraph Club comes at a particularly crucial moment for LGBTQ+ YA as a genre.
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Avery Dame-Griff Is Archiving the Trans Internet
“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and memory on which new communities are built.”
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Author Mac Crane on the Eroticism of Basketball and Writing Queer and Trans Pleasure
“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”
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K. Allison Hammer Imagines the Queer and Trans Possibilities of Masculinity
Rather than focus on individual, exceptional figures of toxic masculinity, Hammer wanted to explore masculinity as a cultural form that people of all genders can embody.
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Author Meryl Wilsner on Writing MILFs, Age Gaps, and Twisting Tropes
“We never learned to write books, we only learn how to write the book that we’re writing.”
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Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art is a book about selfies and our relationships to them.
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Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!
Revisit Autostraddle’s reviews and interviews with this year’s Lambda Literary 2023 shortlisted books and authors.
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Yes, Gays Can Drive: Mechanic Shop Femme Demystifies Car Ownership
“So I really look at this book as a guide for the average car owner for regular people like you who aren’t out there trying to fix their cars in their driveways, who aren’t trying to soup up their vehicles, who do not have a passion for cars.”
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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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“We’re a Surviving Sort of Species”: Venita Blackburn on Grief and How We Live With It
“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”
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K-Ming Chang on Queer Horror Novel “Organ Meats” and Feeling at Home in the Monstrous
“I feel a sense of belonging among things that are terrifying and cause fear and cause chaos.”
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Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky
“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”
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The Erotics of Asexuality
For Ela Przybylo, the concept of “asexual erotics” emphasizes non-sexual intimacy and ways of relating to one another.
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A Queer and Trans Reading of Tammy Wynette
How come so many LGBTQ people worship divas, pop stars, and tragic Hollywood figures? How do LGBTQ readers, viewers, and listeners find queer pleasure in media targeted to the mainstream?
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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?