Results for: be the change
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In Verse: Poetry Collections for a Big Life Change
I have never lived anywhere that wasn’t in Pennsylvania. This state is my home, but I’m ready to move on from it.
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69 Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2024
What’s on the horizon for queer books in March, April, and May? New work from Judith Butler, K-Ming Chang, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and so much more.
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Embracing the Dark Pleasures of Dystopian Literature: 10 Novels That Inspired Me To Write My Own
“I worked on this book between 2019 and 2023, years not exactly known for… incredible progress. In many ways, letting myself slip into another, imaginary world — albeit a worse one — was how I made sense of it all.”
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The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023
I thought it would be fun to do a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing.
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37 Quotes From Queer Authors About Heartbreak, Loss and Moving the F*ck On
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
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Let’s Celebrate Gay Books! Congrats to the 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!
Here are all the Lambda Literary Award finalists that Autostraddle wrote about this year.
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10 Books To Read in the Bathtub
The perfect bath time book is right around 200 pages or less.
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Sapphic Romance Books To Give Your Heart a Spring Refresh
If you’re looking for something that evokes spring, whether literally or figuratively, this list of YA and Adult Romance has you covered.
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The Best Banned Books According to a Queer Educator in Florida
I’ve watched whole lives transform in my classrooms and outside of them because of the stories we read, because of the work we did together, because of our difficult and revelatory and compassionate conversations, and because we were never afraid to face the truth.
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11 Queer Romance + YA Comfort Reads I Revisit on Bad Days
When I find myself needing comfort from the atrocities of being an adult, these are the books I usually turn to.
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10 Picture Books To Teach Little Ones About Gender Expression
Reading picture books was a way I connected with my son when he was a preschooler, and I was able to teach him about things like racism, empathy and of course, LGBTQ+ issues.
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12 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With
A dozen books — from YA to romance to literary fiction to memoir — that center queer road trips all over the U.S. and abroad.
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Required Reading for Jupiter in Taurus
You have a year to complete this assignment, and there will be no test.
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories Featuring Pop Culture
Find sexy pirates, bachelorette viewing parties, and Whitney Houston crushes in these pop culture-packed queer short stories.
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65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023
Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.
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16 Gay M/M Romance Novels To Read After “Red, White and Royal Blue”
If you loved “Red, White & Royal Blue,” here’s 15 more gay romance novels, aka m/m romance, featuring two men doing cute and also erotic things together!
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Close Out National Poetry Month by Preordering Queer Poetry Books
Preordering books is a great way to support authors.
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9 LGBTQ+ Books Every Queer Writer Should Read
I’ve been thinking a lot about the queering of craft.
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49 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Summer 2022
Queer science fiction, fantasy sequels, horror YA, experimental books, short stories, a memoir on (in)fertility, and so much more are heading your way this summer.
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Reading List for the Revolution: Angela Davis & Radical Inspiration for 2021
What if we all committed to a radical reading list for 2021? What would we learn? And with this, what could we do? This collection of books will set you up with hope and pathways toward radical change in 2021.