Carmen Maria Machado calls it “hilarious and sexy and terrifying in its brilliance,” while Michelle Tea says it’s a “daring, perverse, mind-blowing, intellectual, hilarious, outrageous, inspired work of art that somehow is touchingly sincere while giving no fucks whatsoever.” Check out the cover revealed exclusively on Autostraddle!

“We do not have to do anything more to be worthy; we are worthy just because we are.”

If I’m being honest, it’s one of the better written celebrity fiction novels that I’ve read (and I’ve read Lauren Conrad’s YA series).

I have seen some angry women in fantasy stories before, but I have never felt the kind of fury pulsating off of them the way I did with queer water-bender Nehal.

Our bodies deserve exuberant fabrics and innovative design and can highlight beautiful parts of what society typically erases.

Lost Lesbian Lit is a series of essays about lesbian literature from before 2010 with fewer than 25 ratings on Goodreads.

Although I have many of them at any given time, I don’t usually speak my desires out loud.

This is Jen Wilde’s first thriller, but I hope not her last.

Novels, memoirs, essay and short story collections that are really good and also have lesbian sex in them! Wow!

It’s National Poetry Month, so I become a poetry hound, sniffing out new books and revisiting old ones, finding solace, rage, love, and beauty in some of the words crafted by writers I truly admire.

“We never learned to write books, we only learn how to write the book that we’re writing.”

Some readers may be tempted to label Your Driver Is Waiting as satire, but that’s not my reading at all.

It sounds like Robin Hood meets Fast and the Furious and very GAY.

Writer Blair Braverman talks preppers, survival, queer love, and her gripping new novel, Small Game.

I didn’t know this book at all until a few months ago. I borrowed it thinking it’d be hilarious to read in public spaces and have people give me questionable stares. That mentality was replaced by the desire to build bridges.

Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.

Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.

This is a deeply feminist work, but it’s not sanitized, commodified feminism. The feminism here is raw, living, harsh and at times, violent.

Today is July 1 which means that Pride Month is officially over, but here at Autostraddle we like talking about gay books 24/7/365.

Before I was a sex worker, I was a proud sex worker ally.