Results for: \\\"queer kid stuff\\\"
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“Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl” Is a Swoony Queer Neurodiverse Romance
I’m not sure I’ve ever laughed and swooned, simultaneously, as much as I did while reading Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl, a queer high school romance that features two neurodiverse characters from wildly different worlds.
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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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“No Filter and Other Lies” Asks How Far Will You Go for Validation?
Life is hard enough already, why turn Instagram into a bully that can taunt you every time you open it?
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“My Volcano” Is an Abnormal, Bizarre, Exhilarating Novel About a Volcano Suddenly Emerging in Central Park
My Volcano is an abnormal, bizarre, sometimes frustratingly opaque novel — but it’s also one of the most exhilarating ones I’ve read in years.
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Celia Laskey’s “Under the Rainbow” Is Dark, Redeeming, and Very Very Queer
Both light and heavy, dark and redeeming, this book is sure to be a comfort and resource for many, as we try to bridge the growing gap between “coastal elites” and “flyover states.”
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‘Wait, What?’ Is the Body-Affirming, Gender-Expansive Sex Ed Comic Preteens Need
The book deftly acknowledges that each of its five main characters is different in their experience of their bodies, sexualities, genders, romantic interests, and overall development. It allows each kid to define their experience on their own terms and shows a little of their process of becoming comfortable with their unique selves, while promoting kind and thoughtful behavior toward all peers.
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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.”
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Cherríe Moraga on Delving Into Her Queer Chicana Memories in “Native Country of the Heart”
Moraga’s latest, “Native Country of the Heart,” is a deep meditation on memory — reflections of the past, recalling hard moments, losing ourselves, and remembering who we are as Mexican-Americans, in more ways than one. She spoke to Autostraddle about her new book and the journey her queer feminism has taken over the course of her career.
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Stray City Is a Love Story about Friendship, Portland, and Chelsey Johnson’s Queer Community
If I could have willed a book into existence, that book would be Stray City — so I talked to Chelsey Johnson about her debut novel and what it’s like to render queer community so intimately for the public.
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Disney’s “Hocus Pocus” Sequel Is a Teenage Lesbian Love Story!
Disney has retold their most famous Halloween story with a trio that’s comprised of two people of color, one of whom is queer; and the queer daughter of Max and Allison. It’s silly and spooky, and it’s an unabashed love story.
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KaeLyn Rich’s “Girls Resist!” Is a Guidebook for Intersectional Feminist Superheroes
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
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Punk, Ghosts, and “Coady and the Creepies”
They’re here, at least one of them’s queer, and surprise: she’s not the one who dies! “Coady and the Creepies” rocks queer and disability representation, punk history and more.
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Drawn to Comics: Kate Beaton Tells Us What Would Happen if Lois Lane Met Wonder Woman
Kate Beaton talks to Autostraddle about why Ida Wells is her hero, the fascinating Filles de Roi, and obviously Wonder Woman.
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Read A F*cking Book: Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf
Basically, this book is one big giant sex-ed zine, but it’s a book.
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We Are Family: S. Bear Bergman’s “Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter”
Maybe my mom was onto something. Maybe family really is everything, so long as you build it yourself.
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Swapping Spit: The Sister Spit Anthology & A Few Words with Michelle Tea
“This book is a queer anthem. It flashes bright neon lights and blows out plumes of dirty glitter.”
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Read a F*cking Book: “Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America”
If I had the power to declare this the official book of Herstory Month, I would. But I don’t have that power. Only you have that power. And you should read this book!