Results for: love is a lie
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37 Quotes From Queer Authors About Heartbreak, Loss and Moving the F*ck On
“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”
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“Judas Goat” by Gabrielle Bates Made Me Start Writing Again
Once I started Judas Goat, it was nearly impossible to put down.
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“Brainwyrms” Is the Perfect Twisted Novel for Clive Barker Queers
There’s an undeniable playfulness in the way Alison Rumfitt presents sex, kink, and violence, but there’s also a seething rage underneath it all.
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Queer Feminist Essay Collection Explores Horrors of Motherhood
The Call Is Coming From Inside The House is an ideal read for anyone interested in any one of its disparate themes: horror movies, queer parenthood, mental health, bisexuality, true crime, and more.
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Lost Lesbian Lit: Mommy Issues! At the Women’s Writers Retreat
Lost Lesbian Lit is a series of essays about lesbian literature from before 2010 with fewer than 25 ratings on Goodreads.
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We Should Engage With LGBTQ History All Damn Year
OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture perfectly exemplifies the reasons why it’s so imperative to look back at history with the willingness to be impacted by whatever we learn.
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“The Fake” Is a Funny-Sad-Sexy Novel About the Psychological Damage Scammers Inflict
It’s a book about a scammer, but The Fake isn’t trying to hoodwink the reader.
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13 Books About Gay Mayhem and “Bad” Queers To Read After Watching Bottoms
Bring on the literary GAYHEM.
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Let’s Celebrate Gay Books! Congrats to the 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!
Here are all the Lambda Literary Award finalists that Autostraddle wrote about this year.
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“Human Sacrifices” Is a Latine and Feminist Gothic Must-Read
Gothic is the instrument by which Latine authors have historically been able to explore coloniality, migration, violence, and other horrors of Latin American society.
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“Dead in Long Beach, California” and the Inevitability of Grief
Venita Blackburn’s debut novel is a masterful feat of storytelling.
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Queer Desire Is Feral in K-Ming Chang’s Bloody, Spitty “Organ Meats”
Here is an expansive tale of inherited and constructed mythology, queer magic, and gothic girlhood.
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69 Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2024
What’s on the horizon for queer books in March, April, and May? New work from Judith Butler, K-Ming Chang, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and so much more.
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“Fieldwork” Review: A Lush, Chewy Memoir Full of Mushrooms
Michelin-star chef Iliana Regan takes you back to her family’s farmhouse.
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“Survival Takes a Wild Imagination” Shows How the Labor of Liberation Makes Us Better
Through her newest collection of poetry, Fariha Róisín explores her experiences as a queer, Muslim, Bangladeshi woman trying to heal from a childhood of abuse and the pain of generational trauma.
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Queer Naija Lit: Hausa Is a Language of Love in Arinze Ifeakandu’s “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things”
To be human is to be, or not. To love, or not.
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Queer Naija Lit: 2005’s “Walking With Shadows” Is a Meditation on Shame, Rupture, and Repair
As a child, I wasn’t different because I was gay (that came with teenagehood), I was different because I was autistic.
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The Top 12 Queer Novels of 2023
I thought it would be fun to do a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing.
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In LGBTQ Sci-Fi Anthology “Out There”, the World Is Screwed — But Queer Love Finds a Way
“Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder” features work by Leah Johnson, Z Brewer, and more.
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Rainbow Reading: Gearing Up for Valentine’s Day With Queer Romance Reads
Also, the HarperCollins Union’s strike IS SOMEHOW STILL GOING ON. Rainbow Reading wholeheartedly supports the union as they pursue a fair contract for their workers.