Results for: book
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Dear Queer Diary: Commonplace Books Should Be More Common
Craft “a salad of many herbs” for your reading and writing pleasure.
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Dear Queer Diary: Ol’ Book O’ Feelings Playlist
We open with two of the greatest lesbian musical acts of the last two generations and close with three songs clearly selected only because their titles contain the word “diary.” In between, there are some (mostly depressing, strangely folk-y) songs that I like.
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Dear Queer Diary: Cover Your Book (or Dresser Drawers) With the Words of Another
Turn a book by a dead white man into an instrument of your journaling agenda!
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Dear Queer Diary: We Are What We Read
Are the pages of your journals festooned with book titles? Mine are.
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Dear Queer Diary: Summer Re-Reading
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
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Dear Queer Diary: A Doodle Is Worth A Thousand Words
Meditations on Poké Balls, mermaid breasts, and a coloring book for grown-ups!
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Dear Queer Diary: Two Journalers are Twice as Nice
Mary and Frances reveal the secrets of the diary-writing universe.
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Dear Queer Diary: So Long, Farewell
There’s something strange about ending a journal.
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Dear Queer Diary: Take This Quiz, Know Thyself
Today, we appropriate the norms of Buzzfeed to learn more about ourselves as journalers and humans.
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Dear Queer Diary: All The Feelings (and Alison Krauss)
When you’re happy/sad/grumpy/giggly/annoyed and you know it, write in your journal!
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Dear Queer Diary: Meet Abbie
Abbie has a collection of uni-ball roller pens and the coolest bangs south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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Dear Queer Diary: It’s Carolyne!
She sings opera, bakes cookies, and owns more than half a dozen journals. What more could we ask for?
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Dear Queer Diary: Virginia Woolf Is My Homegirl
No, I do not know Virginia Woolf’s official stance on bras. However, let’s put it this way: she wrote that a woman needed five hundred pounds and a room of her own to write fiction—not five hundred pounds, a room of her own, and an uncomfortable, expensive, and otherwise constraining undergarment. Enough said.
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Dear Queer Diary: Picture This
A picture is worth a thousand words, but the pictures themselves are pretty nice, too.
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Dear Queer Diary: Top Secret
If I show you mine, would you show me yours?
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Dear Queer Diary: Scrapbooking Is Not Just For Straight People
Scrapbooking is for you and me!
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Dear Queer Diary: Drop Everything and Read!
I don’t know whether it’s the snow that has begun falling in picturesque flakes outside my window or the blizzard of end-of-year lists on my Twitter feed, but it suddenly seems like ‘tis the season for curling up with a good book.
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Dear Queer Diary: To Burn Or Not To Burn?
What say you, my dear queer diarists? Are your journals destined to go up in flames? Or are you already planning the exhibition on your journal-writing career?
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Dear Queer Diary: Finding the Write Time
Although I have never in my life awoken in the morning feeling like P. Diddy, I regularly wake up in the morning feeling like the author of the next great American novel, a feeling that I wish I spent more time preserving in my journal before I put on my sensible work shoes and walk out my apartment door.
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Dear Queer Diary: Journaling While Left-Handed
Adventures in non-normative handedness.