Things I Read That I Love #276: Thelma, Too, Has an Unquenchable Thirst
Topics include Erotic Photo Hunt, Dorothy Allison, school lunch, alt-right extremists, The Spotted Pig, “People in Trouble,” murder on the Appalachian trail, and so much more!
Books
Lez Liberty Lit: Against Prison Book Bans
Limiting access to books in prisons is bad for everyone, what happens when you wreck a library book, the best time to write, and more!
“Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” Draws Real-as-F*ck Maps of Justice and Care
A true map, it never says: this is the way to go, what to do. Instead, Piepzna-Samarasinha tells us what has worked for some people at some times, what could be done better, and also what went super wrong.
Queer Books Across America: Incredible Lesbian and Bisexual Novels and Memoirs Set in Every State
In August, Book Riot published a list of the Best Books Set In Every State, and I thought to myself, as I so often do, “What if we did a list like this, but for queer women?”
Things I Read That I Love #275: The Basic Self-Estrangement of Growing Up
Topics include being nocturnal, The Virgin Suicides, bookstores, the tragic death of a sex worker in Queens, video game addiction, Darius Miles, More to Me, life after exoneration and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Madness, Witches, and Burned Queer Books
A literature of women’s madness, witchy books to read right now, why buying books won’t save independent bookstores and more.
10 Books on Voting, Elections and Government to Get You Ready for the Midterms
Informed citizens unite!
13 Mind-Expanding Nonfiction Books to Read for LGBTQ History Month
Pick up one of these 13 books about LGBTQ history and learn about your queer and trans ancestors!
Mary Lambert Is Brutally Vulnerable in Her New Poetry Book, “Shame Is An Ocean I Swim Across”
Mary Lambert talked to Autostraddle about vulnerability, the impossibility of separating the art from the artist, and her incredible new book of poems.
Things I Read That I Love #274: Sheila Was Such a Fucking Bitch It Was Awesome
Topics include The Good Place, The English Patient, child abuse, Dr. Death (again, sorry!), working at Disneyland, “radical sex,” ’90s webzines and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit Is Into Unlikable Women
Loving unlikable women in literature, talking about horror, new poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin, how to start making zines, and more.
8 Books Featuring Disabled Queer Women Characters
Enjoy these eight books, mostly fiction, about queer disabled women characters!
We Could Be Heroes
Malinda Lo’s all-new short story about an inauguration protest that’s interrupted by an alien invasion is available exclusively on Autostraddle dot com!
10 Favorite Books by Bisexual Women to Read For Bisexual Awareness Week
Spanning genre from fiction to essays to memoir, these books are vibrant, boundary-breaking, and as intriguing as they are affirming. I strongly recommend curling up with one of these in your favorite café to celebrate Bisexual Visiblility Day today and all this week — settle in for some miso soup (what Ruby, the heroine of Eating Chinese Food Naked, drinks as comfort food) with maybe some biryani and chai for the second course (from Corona, by Bushra Rehman) and read some of these literary works.
Lez Liberty Lit: Everything Is Content
How feminist bookstores changed history, why public libraries are getting less classist, mental models for queerness and more.
Things I Read That I Love #272: Teenagers Find Adult-Free Places The Way Rain Runs Downhill
Topics include Dr. Death aka Christopher Duntsch, old-school video cameras, the ballroom scene, murder, Supershe island, Why the President Must Be Impeached, the death of Scout Schultz, porn pictures shows and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Cannot Resist the Urge to Clean
An everyday trans literature, discipline and creative freedom, fall books previews, lesbian feminist sci-fi and more.
8 Self-Help Books about Lesbian Relationships
Here are eight non-fiction self-help books about lesbian relationships, partnerships, marriage, and dating!
Megan Falley’s “Drive Here and Devastate Me” Is a Love Letter to the Queer Community
Drive Here and Devastate Me, queer femme author Megan Falley’s fourth collection of poetry, is a love letter to the queer community. We talked with Megan about her writing process, femme invisibility, body politics, and of course, love.
The Real-Life LGBT Outlaws of the American West and Writing Queerness Back to Historical Fiction
Each of these small bits of history made me hungry for more information, and brought home how many stories — especially those about queer folks — have been lost, compared to those few that have survived. I wanted to imagine queer people where they must have been, in shipyards and customs offices and coastal boom towns. I wanted them to be in love, to be gender outlaws and survivors, to triumph.