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This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds
If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.
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This YA Book Is a Great Queer Second-Chance Romance
What would you do if the one person you loved the most was the one person you cannot remember?
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New Book “Solidarity” Is Necessary Read, Even if It’s Difficult To Apply to All Liberation Movements
As with most nonfiction books about political topics, I finished Solidarity with more questions than answers about how to integrate its concepts into my day-to-day life.
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The Godzilla Valentine’s Day Comic Book Special Is a Sweet Sapphic Story of Love and Compromise
Written by trans lesbian comic book writer Zoe Tunnell, the Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special tells the story of Piper, a queer woman who decides to become a kaiju researcher after surviving an attack on Godzilla. It’s sapphic and gay as hell and I love it.
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“Yerba Buena” Is the Perfect Book To Bask in This Summer
Yerba Buena accomplishes in one novel what Sally Rooney attempted in three. And I say this as an on-the-record devoted Rooney Tune!
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As Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Ramps Up in My Home State, I Find Myself Returning to This Book
It’s been a rough time to be a queer from Tennessee.
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“A Day of Fallen Night” Is the Most Satisfying Queer and Trans Fantasy Book I’ve Ever Read
The prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree confirms that Samantha Shannon’s Roots of Chaos series is to queer nerds what The Lord of the Rings is to straight nerds.
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This Gay Ocean Horror Book Is So Good I Want To Scream
Our Wives Under The Sea is queer horror at its finest.
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This Sporty Queer YA Novel Is the Best Book I’ve Read in Years
In last year’s Like Other Girls, Britta Lundin creates a heartwarming depiction of queer mentorship and intergenerational queer friendship.
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New “Fire Island” Book Weaves Personal, Historical Narrative To Highlight Power of Community Solidarity
More a place-based memoir than a straightforward history, “Fire Island” provides unique insight on the history, present, and future of this almost mythical place.
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‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods
No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the way some of us still interact with our worlds today.
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Forsyth Harmon’s “Justine” Is a Haunting Book About Intense Teenage Friendship
This tiny book is a quiet horror story in which beauty is a terror and friendship is an undoing of the self. The final line has haunted me long past reading it.
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“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Is a Smart, Feminist Thriller – and Also a Very Cool F*cking Book
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” is a direct response to GamerGate… and a searing indictment of the political nightmare it foreshadowed.
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“Detransition, Baby” Is a Book For Trans Women — The Rest of You Are Lucky to Read It
“The truth is I don’t know how to review Detransition, Baby. Torrey was too successful in what she set out to accomplish. If trans women have been and remain her primary audience then I, a trans woman, don’t know what to say from a place of supposed objectivity. The fact that this is not a PDF free on her website but a hardcover book garnering an immense amount of buzz fills me with a joy I can explain and a terror I cannot.”
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“He/She/They” Is a Helpful Guide and Call to Action for Allies Everywhere
I’d recommend suggesting it to as many well-meaning cis people as you possibly can.
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“Fair Play” Reflects on the Origins of the Trans Sports Debate and How We Can End It
Throughout the text, Barnes reminds us over and over again: “What began as a good-faith discussion about policy and physiological differences between sexes has given way to a level of intolerance and discrimination that is simply unconscionable.”
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“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers
There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.
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Short Fiction Collection “Girlfriends” Presents Expansive, Nonlinear View of Transition and Dysphoria
The trans women in Girlfriends often find themselves stuck in the spiderweb of someone else’s drama or self-implosion.
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“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody
Reading this book was compelling, fluid, and joyous.
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8 Great Books About Queer Monstrous Women
“Books about *monstrous women* of all varieties. Softhearted giantesses, feral shapeshifters, malicious sea creatures, lonely gorgons. Women with the strength of gods, women with fangs and fur, women formed of craggy rock or ice or fire.”