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Kristen Arnett holding copies of her book Stop Me If You've Heard This One on a Florida bookstore road trip
Book Features Travel

We Took a Gay Literary Road Trip Through Central Florida, and You Should Too!

As Florida now leads the nation in book bans, putting together a little Florida road trip travel guide oriented around independent bookstores feels meaningful. There’s more to this place than theme parks and beaches. Adding a Florida bookstore road trip to your next vacation in the sunshine state will let you see parts of this place in a deeper way.

Kristen Arnett January 7, 2025 6 Comments
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I was 22 years old when I donated my eggs anonymously at a fertility clinic in New York City.

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Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories To Read on Thanksgiving

If you have a pocket of time between tasks tomorrow or are just having a chill, quiet day, dive into some brilliant stories.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 23, 2022 11 Comments
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Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents

For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.

Stef Rubino August 2, 2022 2 Comments
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Book Lists Holigays Quizzes

Quiz: Which Wintery Queer Book Should You Read This Holigay Season?

Whether or not you love the winter holiday season, Autostraddle’s resident lesbrarian has got some great reads for you this December! Just take this quiz and I will match you with an amazing queer book.

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A collage including highlighters, a vase that's also a bookend, pressed flower bookmarks, a hanging bookshelf, and a planter shaped like books
Book Features Holigays

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!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 3, 2021 8 Comments
Book Lists Holigays

8 Cute Queer Holiday Romances to Snuggle up with this Holigay Season

More than one book involves lesbians falling in love while bonding over a cute festive pet.

Casey December 17, 2019 6 Comments
Book Lists Halloween

8 Queer Halloween Reads for Your Gay Spooky Needs

Here are 8 queer books appropriate for the Halloween season, from the genuinely terrifying to funny and lightly macabre.

Casey October 8, 2019 14 Comments
Book Lists Queer Pregnancy

What to Read When You’re Queer and Expecting: 6 Parenting Books That Smash The Patriarchy

Unfortunately, most parenting books weren’t written with queer moms, trans dads, non-binary parents and gestational carriers, and families that look like ours in mind.

KaeLyn January 29, 2019 23 Comments
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Emilie Wapnick’s How To Be Everything

Why pick between your passions when you can design a life based on ALL of them?

Beth May 23, 2017 15 Comments
Book Lists Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide 2016: (More) Books for the Queer Academic

What do you get for the person who is perpetually tired, underpaid, and overworked? More books, obviously.

Ari December 8, 2016 21 Comments
Book Lists Halloween

Normal Blood Feelings: 5 Dark (and Sometimes Sexy) Queer Vampire Stories

If witches are a way to tell stories about women and power, vampires are a way to tell stories about women and sex.

Ryan Yates October 28, 2016 13 Comments
Book Features Money + Work

Follow Your Arrow: For Books’ Sake’s Jane Bradley Champions Women Writers

“There’s no denying that women writers are affected by systemic, institutionalised sexism in the media and publishing industries, but women who are queer, trans, of colour, disabled, sex workers, from low-income backgrounds and/or otherwise outside the mainstream are inevitably impacted more than most.”

Beth March 10, 2016 5 Comments
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