Results for: love is a lie
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Rainbow Reading: Gearing Up for Valentine’s Day With Queer Romance Reads
Also, the HarperCollins Union’s strike IS SOMEHOW STILL GOING ON. Rainbow Reading wholeheartedly supports the union as they pursue a fair contract for their workers.
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Rainbow Reading: This Upcoming Book Is a Queer Retelling of Robin Hood About DYKES ON BIKES
It sounds like Robin Hood meets Fast and the Furious and very GAY.
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Rainbow Reading: It’s Showtime, Folks
Every other week, I’ll run my metal detector over the literary internet, dig up whatever beeps, and present to you my findings.
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Eight Mystery Books With Bi+ Main Characters
We’ve got mystery thrillers, historical mysteries, fantasy mysteries, graphic novel mysteries!
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Slow Takes: Casey Plett’s “A Dream of a Woman” and Forgiveness as a Love Story
Often I find myself pushing so hard against the image of trans loneliness that I don’t allow myself to acknowledge the truths that lie within. This book acknowledged them for me. It hurt. I’m grateful.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Motivated By Drive (Or Fear)
Is there a difference between drive and fear? Where are the abortion memoirs? What fall books should you definitely read?
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Lez Liberty Lit: The Queer Erotic Debut Novel of the Summer
How queer writers create queer stories, the history of writing as a history of book burning, queer bookstores to visit and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Going Analog
Nobel-cancelling sex scandals, writing by hand, what to read if you want to read funny women, the myth of women authors with only one good book and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Hypnotic Decay
How lesbian pulp fiction saved lives, Michelle Tea’s Against Memoir, gay love letters, what counts as “well read” and more.
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Drawn to Comics: 15-Year-Old Maggie Thrash Interviews Herself in This Brand New Exclusive “Honor Girl” Excerpt
“After that summer, all I wanted was reassurance — not from other people necessarily, but from myself. I would have loved to talk to my adult self and ask her a million questions: Am I ok? Do I make it out of my teens alive? Who do I turn out to be, in the end?”
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Lez Liberty Lit: Poetry and Magic
Poetry and magic are for everyone, business feminism, Maya Angelou, EIleen Myles, kicking the frame, unicorn power and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Wonder Woman for President
Literary ASMR, exclamation points and emoji, queer retellings as reclamation, Zadie Smith, recordings of Black women poets and more.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “Mermaid in Chelsea Creek” and the Chelsea Trilogy
“If you adore any of Tea’s other books, you’ll find Mermaid in Chelsea Creek to be every bit as transgressive and illuminating. If you ever escaped into the magical realms created by J.K. Rowling or Tamora Pierce, or if you got hooked on what dystopian YA like the Hunger Games had to say about class and privilege, you’ll relish Mermaid’s intriguing mixture of magic and social realism.”
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Lez Liberty Lit #72: Self-(De)Construction
Structuring and restructuring the self through notebooks, the city with the most bookstores per capita, poetry collections that are like documentaries and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #61: Snowing Pages
#BlackPoetsSpeakOut, notable book lists, new Harry Potter, we are reading so much and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #45: Saved By The Bell Jar
Unknown female beat poets, lesbian historical fiction, the problem with essays, reading more, the answer to the question “how much gay sex should a novel have?” and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #39: Speed Reading
Reading women, reading other humans, what counts as queer writing, library theft and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #26: Summertime, and The Reading is Easy
The books of Orange is the New Black, diversity in kids’ books, heroic librarians, subtle ways of convincing those around you to read your favorite childhood novels and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #25: War and Peach
This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Your New Biweekly Guide To Queer Lady Literature
Welcome to the inaugural Lez Liberty Lit post, a column where we tell you things about books that will make your brain smarter, better, faster, stronger.