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Womanhood Is Not a Curse

Samantha Josephs’s debut literary horror novel, Carrying, is just as skeptical about the patriarchal expectations and injustices of mainstream heterosexuality…

Nic Anstett

Oct 22, 2026

Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott

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“Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh” Is a Fun Time-Travel Sapphic Romance

Can you fall in love with a girl when there’s a 200 year barrier between you?

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Aug 30, 2023

The cover of Adrienne Tooley's The Third Daughter, a blue and black cover with various magical items illustrated behind the text.

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“The Third Daughter” Is Sapphic Slow-Burn Fantasy and Feminist Rage

What turned it into an auto-buy was the Post-It note attached to the shelf. A flimsy lime-green placeholder for one of the voicey, detailed recommendation cards that are always tucked…

Heather Hogan

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Aug 26, 2023

Free Them All: A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System by Gwénola Ricordeau

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“Free Them All” Makes a Feminist Argument for Prison Abolition

Gwénola Ricordeau has written an ideal academic text. It is, at once, simple to read and complex in its ideology.

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Aug 24, 2023

The Last Girls Standing by Jennifer Dugan

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YA Favorite Jennifer Dugan’s Queer Thriller Debut Is a Lesson in Trauma

The Last Girls Standing gave me big Yellowjackets vibes.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Aug 23, 2023

Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland

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Jenn Shapland’s “Thin Skin” Will Make You Believe Another Life Is Possible

Shapland never purports to have all of the answers here, and why would she?

Stef Rubino

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Aug 17, 2023

Thin Skin by Jenn Shapland

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EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life

In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.

Jenn Shapland

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Aug 15, 2023

An illustration of two women's soccer players facing each other in their purple uniforms on the cover of Meryl Wilsner's Cleat Cute

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Cleat Cute’s Sapphic Soccer Romance Will Fill the World Cup-Shaped Hole in Your Heart

It can’t be good for your body to cut off lesbian soccer drama cold turkey.

Heather Hogan

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Aug 14, 2023

The following books: Outwrite, Some of Us Did Not Die, How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, and Body Work

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9 LGBTQ+ Books Every Queer Writer Should Read

I’ve been thinking a lot about the queering of craft.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 6, 2023

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She's a Doll, She Haunts Me Still,and American Rapture

9 Scary Good Queer Books To Read for a Hot Horror Summer

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Iyana Jones

TRANS ATHLETES BELONG IN SPORT

Sports Have Always Been a Battleground for Gender Equity

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Stef Rubino

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7 Queer Palestinian Books To Read This Pride

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Hannah Moushabeck and George Abraham

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All 100+ Queer Women of the Star Wars Universe, Ranked

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Nic Anstett

20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

20 Delicious Queer Novels Featuring Food To Devour

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Books To Read if You’re Gay and Kinda Haunted

Books To Read if You’re Gay and Kinda Haunted

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6 Books Exploring Queer Boricua Experience

6 Books Exploring Queer Boricua Experience

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Titeänyä Rodríguez

The Seep, Land of Milk and Honey, and The Unworthy

Queer Books To Read if You’re Really Missing ‘Pluribus’

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2025

The Best Queer Poetry Releases of 2025

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Gabrielle Grace Hogan

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The Best Queer Books of 2025

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Author Interviews

Morgan Thomas and Mad Eden

Morgan Thomas on Writing Complex Portrayals of Autistic Trans Experience

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Nic Anstett

Bone Horn and the novel's author

‘Bone Horn’ Is a Well of Horniness Rippling With Comedy, Grief, and the Ultimate Lesbian Mystery

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Sally

The Queer Bookshelf

‘The Queer Bookshelf’ Will Help You Find Your Next Gay Read — Without Algorithms

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Sally

Vernal Thaw by Frances Cannon

New Novel ‘Vernal Thaw’ Explores Toxic Queer Monogamy

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Lauren Herold

A Body Made Home by Kai Marshall Green

New Memoir ‘A Body Made Home’ Embraces Black Trans Love, Healing, and Transformation

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Lauren Herold

Ashley Herring Blake and Get Over it, April Evans

Ashley Herring Blake Loves Writing Messy Queer Characters

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Sa'iyda Shabazz

Amy Spalding - In Her Spotlight

How Amy Spalding Built a Four-Book Sapphic Romance Universe

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Sa'iyda Shabazz

Queers at the Table

What Does ‘Queer Food’ Mean?

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Stef Rubino

Best Woman by Rose Dommu and The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

Rose Dommu and Casey McQuiston on Writing Queer Romance That Fucks With the Formula

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Adam Eli

ilana masad BEINGS

Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad’s Stunning New Novel ‘Beings’

Pick An Actual Category, You Strange Genius

Gabrielle Korn

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