Results for: queer parenting
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19 Queer Books About Losing a Parent
These queer books across all genres are all haunted in some way by the death of a parent.
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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.
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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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Dystopian Commentary Bares Its Teeth and Heart in “I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself”
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
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Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present
If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”
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Author Mac Crane on the Eroticism of Basketball and Writing Queer and Trans Pleasure
“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”
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Queer Feminist Essay Collection Explores Horrors of Motherhood
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House is an ideal read for anyone interested in any one of its disparate themes: horror movies, queer parenthood, mental health, bisexuality, true crime, and more.
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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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Yes, Gays Can Drive: Mechanic Shop Femme Demystifies Car Ownership
“So I really look at this book as a guide for the average car owner for regular people like you who aren’t out there trying to fix their cars in their driveways, who aren’t trying to soup up their vehicles, who do not have a passion for cars.”
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YA Favorite Jennifer Dugan’s Queer Thriller Debut Is a Lesson in Trauma
The Last Girls Standing gave me big Yellowjackets vibes.
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In a Year Full of Great Sapphic Holiday Romances, “Kiss Her Once for Me” Stood Out
Kiss Her Once for Me is a truly stellar example of not just a holiday romance or a queer romance, but of any kind of romance.
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Slow Takes: “Stone Fruit” and Choosing Given Family
I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.
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Tess Sharpe’s New Queer YA Novel Will Have You Chanting “Kiss, Kiss, Kiss!”
As someone who grew up in a rural place, I really appreciated how authentically rural this novel felt.
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EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life
In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.
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“All This Could Be Different” Review: A Novel So Good I Dreaded Finishing It
Whether she’s writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ sentences seduce and swathe.
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“The Third Daughter” Is Sapphic Slow-Burn Fantasy and Feminist Rage
What turned it into an auto-buy was the Post-It note attached to the shelf. A flimsy lime-green placeholder for one of the voicey, detailed recommendation cards that are always tucked around the shop, with three words scrawled on it: “magical furious lesbians.”
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The Best Queer Books Featuring Mommy Issues
Gays really are out here having complicated relationships with our mothers and then writing whole books about it.
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Author Melanie Bell on her YA Novel “Chasing Harmony” and the Messy Process of Growing Up Queer
“The people I met who were identified as musical prodigies had long journeys involving conflict between their abilities and personal needs and finding who they were beyond the weight of expectations. When I was younger, successes and failures felt huge, and this is the case for Anna too.”
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A Sweet Sixteen Becomes a Coming Out Party in Queer YA Novel “Friday I’m in Love”
The scene where Mahalia — the Black queer teen at the center of Camryn Garrett’s new novel — comes out to her mom is painful but honest.