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A Memoir Isn’t a Self-Help Book
Author Jeanna Kadlec talks about her new memoir Heretic, the loss of leaving a life, gay Bible stories, and more.
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Talking with Alison Bechdel about Feminist Martial Arts, Lockdown, and Her New Book “The Secret to Superhuman Strength”
“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement. Alison Bechdel shares her process of writing this latest book over the last ten years, collaborating with her partner, and the “huge blossoming of lesbian culture.”
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In “Pageboy,” Elliot Page Gets Vulnerable About Gender Dysphoria, Trans Joy, and Much More
Like a lot of millennials my age, I grew up watching Elliot Page’s films and his ascent to stardom
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I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”
Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.
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Lamya H on Queer Muslim Community and Leslie Feinberg’s Influence on Their Memoir
“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”
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Cecilia Gentili’s “Faltas” Is One of the Best Memoirs I’ve Ever Read
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist is an exciting and, at times, breathtaking addition to the canon of works about “messy trans lives.”
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“Voice of the Fish” Examines the Slippery Nature of Bodies
It’s so hard to have a body. Isn’t it?
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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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Julie Delporte Wanted To Be a Lesbian Even Before She Was Sexually Attracted to Women
At 35, Delporte’s acceptance of her sexuality serves as a catalyst that helps her understand her relationships, her interests, her experiences with boys and young men as a young woman, and, especially, her body.
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New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife
There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious thoughts about queerness and what it means to be a queer person.
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Butch Memoirs To Check Out in Honor of “Hijab Butch Blues”
This is not an exhaustive list of butch memoirs, and I would love to hear about more.
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Perfume Provides a Map of Memory and History in This Powerful Memoir
Tanaïs’ In Sensorium is an aesthetic, intimate labyrinth of ancestral reckoning and identity.
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“Burning Butch” Is the Trans Butch Memoir We’ve Always Needed
We’ve always needed books like Burning Butch out in the world reminding us that it’s possible to fight back, to overcome, and to survive despite all odds.
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“Lesbian Love Story” Has Something To Teach Us About Ourselves
It’s important for us to gather all of the stories of the people who came before us in order to help fuel our fight against the people who want to push us out of existence.
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Tegan and Sara’s “Junior High” Brings Their Origin Story to a Graphic Novel
Queer youth need to see a hero’s journey from queer icons who’ve lived it! And they need to be able to relate to it, not to write it off as ancient history.
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Queer Naija Lit: “The Lives of Great Men” Interrogates the Measures of Masculinity and Greatness
My internal identity journey as a black genderfluid person involves engaging with my relationship to masculinity.
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Chris Belcher on “Pretty Baby,” Dungeon Dynamics, and the Expansiveness of Queer Sex
“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”
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Michelle Tea on Queer Pregnancy and Writing a Memoir in Present Tense
“I really want it to feel like you fell down a rabbit hole into this world, because that’s how I felt. That was the reality of the experience for me.”
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Sarah Viren’s Memoir Is A Compelling Exploration of the Nature of Truth
When we live in a society where truth matters so little, what are we supposed to do with it once we have it?
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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.