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Do You Love Queer Books?
I want fewer queer books slipping through the cracks.
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TOMORROW! A+ Book Club Chats “Patricia Wants to Cuddle” with Samantha Allen
Queers! Reality TV dating! Sasquatch!
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A+ Book Club for Finding the Fool: A Tarot Journey to Radical Transformation
With author and Autostraddle writer, Meg Jones Wall!
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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club is Talking “Patricia Wants to Cuddle” with Samantha Allen
June 21st on the A+ Pride Pop-Up Discord Server!
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A+ Platinum Has a New Lineup of Queer Books
Platinum is kind of the opposite of that — an option for those of you who want to give more than our current levels allow and really level up the number of times in any 24 hour period you’re reminded that they’re an A+ member!
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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
December 13th! We hope you won’t ghost us!
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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A with Sarah Thankam Mathews
This time, we’re reading All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews, a book our Managing Editor Kayla called “so good I dreaded finishing it.”
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That Was the Era: Photographer Phyllis Christopher on Her Book “Dark Room”
“It was a political statement to portray sex, to portray queer sex, as it was to demand civil rights in the daytime.”
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A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A With Chris Belcher, Happening Now!
Now’s your chance to ask Chris your questions and chat with fellow A+ members about “Pretty Baby: A Memoir”!
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Quiz: Which Trans YA Book Should You Read This Pride Month?
Check out an anti-censorship toolkit to help get trans YA books in the hands of youth who need them, and then take this quiz to find out which one you should read next.
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It’s Lit: Queer Youth on an Online Book Club Club That Became Family
“Well the premise combined two of my favorite things: being gay and reading, so I was naturally intrigued.”
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RIGHT NOW! Log Onto Discord to Chat With Samantha Allen
Ask the author of “Patricia Wants to Cuddle” all about her book!
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In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”
Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: A Virtual Grease Bats Book Party and Community Love Fest
A book party, you ask? For whom? For what? For Archie, I exclaim back! For our own Archie Bongiovanni, and for this here comic we have on Autostraddle dot com called Grease Bats!
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Just Take It Bird By Bird: On Personal Writing
Writing about your own experiences, whether it’s through memoir or essay or slam poetry or leaving post-its about the sandwiches your mom used to make for your lunch on lampposts, can be empowering and life-changing, even without anyone else reading it.
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Kemi Adeyemi’s Feels Right Explores the Politics of Black Queer Nightlife
Adeyemi told me when we talked in May that she has long been “frustrated with writing about queer nightlife that really presents it as this utopian escape from everyday life.” “That’s a story, it’s not reality,” she argues.
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Beverly Hills, CA 8/12: Book Club: Cocktails and Conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn and Carmen Rios
Join Ms. for the Summer 2019 meeting of #MsBookClub, featuring Lamba Literary Award-winning author Nicole Dennis-Benn and Ms. Managing Digital Editor Carmen Rios in conversation with attendees about her new novel PATSY. The event will feature a reception with custom cocktails, a reading by the author and a book signing.
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Clare Forstie Wants To Change the Way You Think About the Queer Midwest
“I am a queer person who grew up in and has lived in small communities, small towns, and small cities for my entire life.”
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Revisiting “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions,” 45 Years Later
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.