Results for: queer sci-fi books
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Rainbow Reading: Hey Siri, What’s the Opposite of Listless?
Instead of discourse, you know what we’ve got during this last mellow week? Lists. SO MANY LISTS.
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Rainbow Reading: Book Hangovers Are Real and I Have One
The latest LGBTQ+ book releases are full of queer dark academia vibes.
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Rainbow Reading: Book Recommendations From Hot People Just Hit Different
It’s a great time to immerse yourself in some LGBTQ+ sci-fi and genre fiction.
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Rainbow Reading: Happy “Our Wives Under The Sea” Week to All Who Celebrate
After another banger week for books coverage on Autostraddle, catch up on all the latest happenings in the queer lit world.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Into The Public Domain
Gay sex in great literature, healing from ancestral trauma, Zora Neal Hurston’s legacy, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Boredom Banana Bread
The relationships between boredom, work, art, pandemic, and banana bread; the bourgeois romance of pandemic isolation; read books about “disreputable women” by women writers and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Running on Queer Time
What do we do with unthinkable thoughts in the time of covid? Plus: how crime fiction enables police brutality, zines and self-discovery, celebrating the Clueless anniversary, every book you’ll want to read for the next five months and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Cannot Resist the Urge to Clean
An everyday trans literature, discipline and creative freedom, fall books previews, lesbian feminist sci-fi and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Language as Control
Language is a way to exercise control. Also some Pride reading lists, three Latinx zines, dying languages and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Kinda Gay, Or Really Gay?
Grammar as privilege, cardboard presses, ranking fictional drugs, disability in sci-fi and fantasy and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: The New Comics Sans
Black artists and America, (your) feelings about typography, writers resisting, a history of feminist bookstores, representation in comics and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #98: So Sleepy
Reading nooks; the links between language, culture, and the way we think; queer books with POC protagonists; unlinking mental illness and creativity; and more.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “Fledgling” and Queer Black Vampire Mythology
If you’re interested in seeing the complexities of polyamorous relationships interpreted through the lens of speculative fiction, or in reading a quietly queer sci-fi great’s exploration of sexual fluidity, Fledgling will be up your alley.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “The Gilda Stories” and Queer Black Vampire Myth
The Gilda Stories was published in 1991 and hasn’t been out of print since — it uses the vampire myth to tackle new themes, including Black American life and queerness.
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Lez Liberty Lit #81: All Eileen Myles All The Time
Eileen Myles is having a moment (okay she’s always been having a moment but people finally noticed); a new trans poetry literary journal; queer books to read this fall and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #80: Stories Are What You Make Them
The Hitchhiker’s Guide and loving problematic things; The Argonauts and embracing but not constraining queerness; writing about race and representation; queer books with bi characters and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #76: Sideways Stories
Zines and sci-fi by people of color, queer magical realism, everything’s an essay, rewriting the diary and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #64: Reading To Fix Your Brain
Marginalized writers learning to value their own stories, interviews with queer and trans artists of color, a new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie story, bisexuality in sci fi and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #59: Luminous Misandry
Texts from Jane Eyre as a new form of literary criticism, whether to finish every book you start, strong opinions on book lists and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #51: Reading While Travelling
Reading online, typewriters, trans literature, romance fiction as feminist fiction and more.