Results for: be the change
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Mara Wilson Knows Your First Crush Was Miss Honey: The Autostraddle Interview
“Being Queer is not about who you’re with, it’s about who you are.”
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Trauma Queen: An Autostraddle Book Review and Interview
Trauma Queen, the new memoir by Lovemme Corazon, is a hard read but equally hard to put down. There are many, many people who will find a familiar history in this book, and the author hopes that will be a jumping off point for healing and discussions.
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Malinda Lo and Behold: The Autostraddle Interview
Malinda Lo spoke with Autostraddle about her new book Adaptation, diversity in YA, gay girls making out, and how much she loves us (spoiler alert: a lot).
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Read a F*cking Book: 20 Best Young Adult Novels For Queer Girls
NPR’s list of Top 100 Choices For Best Teen Novels lacked proper queeriosity. Thus we present our top 20 picks for Queer Teen Novels For Girls.
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Emma and Nicola Wrote A Novel About Britney Spears: The Autostraddle Interview
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries”) re-imagine the story of how Britney Spears ended up under her father’s permanent legal control in their new novel.
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Autostraddle Book Club #4: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“I am literally incapable of talking about a memoir about a queer woman grappling with a fraught, distant, infuriating relationship with her father without talking about myself.”
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Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels (Currently on My Kindle)
topics explored include work-related circumstances, tragic accidents, hot lady cops, confusing figures from the past, lesbian power suits, raunch and deceased lovers. Oh and sex. Lots of sex.
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How Will We Save LGBTQ Bookstores?
More and more gay bookstores are closing, which is bad for my bookstore addiction. Let’s talk this out.
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Pure Poetry #34: Of All Poets, Stephen Dunn
In which five of us talk about our favorite poet ever. “Those of us who think we know / the same secrets / are silent together most of the time.”
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Pure Poetry #14: Sady Doyle on the Great Poet Diane Di Prima
“This woman found the riskiest, weirdest thing to be, at any particular moment, and then she became it.”
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Read a F*cking Book: Ten Lesbian & Bisexual Poets To Fall in Love With
You probably don’t read enough poetry and you would probably be smarter if you did.
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Sister Spit’s New Generation of Queer Poets & Rebels: The Autostraddle Interview
In 1997, Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson started Sister Spit – a spoken word tour full of the best queer writers and poets around. Twelve years later, Sister Spit: The Next Generation is taking over the world/my heart. On October 5, the tour came to Phoenix and I interviewed them for you, which is actually a big deal because it was the first face-to-face interview I’ve ever done and I was scared, y’all.
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Riese & Green Read Books: Lesbionic Young Adult Novels, Part #1
Green & Riese Read Lesbian YA Novels! Clandestine lesbian affairs! Secrets! Shame! Love! High School! That Girl You Loved — She Loves You Back!