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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories Featuring Pop Culture
Find sexy pirates, bachelorette viewing parties, and Whitney Houston crushes in these pop culture-packed queer short stories.
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories To Read on Thanksgiving
If you have a pocket of time between tasks tomorrow or are just having a chill, quiet day, dive into some brilliant stories.
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Stories With Queer Sex
Welcome to another Short Fiction Playlist! In honor of Valentine’s Day, today’s theme is queer sex! Dig into these five stories featuring a sex-talking parrot, period sex, gay clubs, spanking, and more.
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Stories That Find Humor in Sad Places
A road trip, a strip mall, a breakup, a painting, and a pregnancy bump — read these five queer short stories where humor sits inside of sadness.
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories To Get Lost in This Weekend
Find strangeness, horror, spit, and surreality in these five queer short stories available online. And let me know if you want to see more short fiction recs on Autostraddle!
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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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Rainbow Reading: Lifting Queers, Listen Up! New Sapphic Romance Set in a Gym Is Coming
Plus, an upcoming YA book about a Mexican American nonbinary teen promises love in a taqueria.
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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.
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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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Lez Liberty Lit: James Baldwin’s Record Collection
James Baldwin’s record collection as a playlist, procrastination and writer’s block and whether or not they’re value neutral and more.
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Rainbow Reading: ’Tis the Damn Season Already?
Literally what do you mean that it’s December already?
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Rainbow Reading: Trans! Vampire! Romance!
Plus, the debate about Sally Rooney’s depictions of bisexuality and queerness continues apace.
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Rainbow Reading: It’s Queer Lit Awards Season!
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya guest hosts Rainbow Reading this week, highlighting new LGBTQ+ book releases, events, book sales, and more!
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Rainbow Reading: More Like Mercury READtrograde, Am I Right!
Learn more about the book whose “highlights include: a May/December queer romance, psychopaths on the loose, and a school for bad girls….” Plus, more book news and recommendations, including lots of author interviews and upcoming queer lit events!
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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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Self-Publishing Taught Me To Rethink Success
Author Sarah Wallace writes on queer community in the self-publishing world and rewriting the rules of her own success.
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Queer Naija Lit: “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde Names the Things People Would Rather Look Away From
Welcome to Queer Naija Lit, a new series that analyzes and celebrates queer Nigerian literature. First up: a review of the new novel “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde.
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Meg Jones Wall on Queer, Expansive Tarot
“What if we just let all of these cards have gender neutral pronouns and we break them free from these gender binaries and let them be every archetype?”
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The Drop: Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew’s “Black Futures” Is a Triumphant Celebration of Black Voices and Black Innovation
Black people are the future, creating some of the most beautiful and challenging art we have seen, forging a way out of the past while being entirely cognizant of it. As the editors state in the introduction, time is not linear, we are always in conversation with the past, present, and future. Black Futures as a collection is keenly aware of this.
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Jean Chen Ho on “Fiona and Jane,” the Eros of Friendship, and Finding Your Fiction Community
“When I was writing these women and their mothers, I wanted to show that these are individuals.”