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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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LGBTQ Fiction Sales Are Up, but We Still Urgently Need Creative Ways To Fight Book Bans
What does the LGBTQ book landscape look like right now? It’s complicated.
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Lost Lesbian Lit: A Lesbian Novel From the 1950s and the Continued Importance of Maude’s Abortion Episode
Our perception of history is shaped by who writes the stories and who publishes them.
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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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Clare Forstie Wants To Change the Way You Think About the Queer Midwest
“I am a queer person who grew up in and has lived in small communities, small towns, and small cities for my entire life.”
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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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Remembering Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Legacy as a Radical Southern Femme
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
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Chance and Error Are Friends to Sadie Dupuis’ Writing Process
Poet and musician Sadie Dupuis talks new collection Cry Perfume, scent and memory, and using autocorrect as a co-writer.
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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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Things I Read That I Loved #326: It Was 1997 and Everything Seemed Mostly Okay.
Topics include Barnes & Noble, Black Excellence according to Bel-Air, a dog’s purpose, #vanlife, a nurse imposter, the pursuit of hotness, Los Angeles, Starbucks, the real reason for a recent spike in traffic accidents and more!
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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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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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Kristen Arnett on “With Teeth,” Lesbian Motherhood, and Sagittarius Chaos
“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”
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Queer Arabs Taking Up Space: An Interview With Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the bi Arab romance novel l didn’t know I needed. We chat about the book, first-gen traumas, sexual ambiguity and Arab parents.
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6 Queer Authors on What It’s Like to Launch Their Books in a Pandemic
If you’re looking to escape reality for a little while, look no further than this year’s absolute bumper crop of queer novels. As late spring and summer literary events are postponed and cancelled, writers are looking for ways to connect virtually with readers and the publishing community – and finding ways to keep their creativity flowing in a difficult time.
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Are You the Heroine of a Tamora Pierce Novel?
Are you a regular adult human queer person, or have you been the fictional tomboy heroine of a beloved fantasy series this whole time? Only one way to find out.
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How YA Novels Unexpectedly Enabled My Own Bisexual Revelation
I wonder why the story of a bisexual teenage boy is the one that allowed me to explicitly consider my identity as a bisexual adult woman for the first time.
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“They Want Trans Shit to Be a PSA”: A Trans Woman Writers’ Roundtable
“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”
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Queers at the End of the World: An Interview with Queer Feminist Fabulist Carmen Maria Machado
Talking about Kristen Stewart, gems, lesbian tropes, Girl Scout crushes, swine flu, the apocalypse and more with award-winning queer writer Carmen Maria Machado.
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100 of My Favorite Poets For Your Survival Pack
In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.