Results for: work in progress
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Rainbow Reading Stands With the HarperCollins Union Strike
Today, the unionized staff of HarperCollins are going on strike, and if you care about queer books and the future of queer publishing, you should care about this.
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Rainbow Reading: Exclusive “Lesbian Love Story” Cover Reveal!
Amelia Possanza’s debut memoir Lesbian Love Story: A Memoir in the Archives is everything I’ve wanted: intimate and voracious and utterly magnetic.
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Lez Liberty Lit: It’s Okay If You Can’t Really Read Right Now
Art supply care packages, what even is “normal,” just get weird 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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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: Hazy Golden Light
Lambda Literary Award nominees have been announced, Zines will outlive the internet, a bookstore-bar in the Bronx, sexual assault in creative fields, California periods and more.
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Rebel Girls: A Reading List for the Revolution
This election shook me to my core. That’s undeniable. I am still grieving and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. I am so fucking angry and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. But I refuse to be scared, or cowed, or defeated.
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Empowering the Feminists of the Future: A Q&A with “Powered by Girl” Author Lyn Mikel Brown
I chatted with Lyn this week about the book, youth activism, and intergenerational activism. She had a lot of amazing things to say, spoiler alert.
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Rebel Girls: The True Stories of 10 Women Breaking Barriers in Contemporary American Politics
The stories of 10 American women who fundamentally altered history simply by showing up and working like hell — in their own words.
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Rebel Girls Reading List: 10 Activist Workbooks and How-To Guides for Queer Feminists
From figuring out your own gender politics to launching massive campaigns and everything in-between, these books have your back as queer people, women, people of color, and other folks living at the intersections. The bonus? They’re also all badass as f*ck.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Meliza Bañales’ “Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific”
Can you resist a title as snarky as Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific? I couldn’t, especially when the book was written by spoken-word champion and award-winning filmmaker Meliza Bañales.
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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 #66: Why Not Get Started Immediately
Canadian queer women’s classic books, Asian American literature after Amy Tan, failing to keep a diary, optional bookmarks and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #53: A To-Read Pile To The Moon
Highbrow and lowbrow literature, visualizing characters, an excerpt from “bad Feminist” and more!
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Lez Liberty Lit #52: Lazy Reading Days
Zadie Smith, superlatives, reader’s block, Samantha Irby, public domain reviews, queer book fairs and more.
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Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
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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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Liberty Lit #37: Nothing Is Sexier Than Grammar
Alice Walker and Tracy Chapman dated and nothing else even matters. Also unlikeable protagonists, books to treat depression, books to treat your lesbian break-up and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #33: The Novel Is Not Dead
This week in lit news: reports that novels may or may not be dead have been exaggerated, the animated history of the English language, “Love Cake” and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #10: I Must Not Let Her Find Me Writing
This week in lit: T Cooper’s book soundtrack, favorite LGBT books of 2012, authors playing in the snow, poems from your cat’s point of view and more.