Literature

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‘All Us Saints’ Boldly Slashes Away at the Trans Killer Trope

All Us Saints is hardly the first work to critique and analyze the prolific horror trope of the transgender slasher…

Nic Anstett

Jun 6, 2026

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Lez Liberty Lit: Stop Reading Garbage Online

Stop reading garbage online and start reading all the great books that are coming out in 2021 instead.

Ryan

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Jan 14, 2021

An image repeated three times of the cover of Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby

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“Detransition, Baby” Is a Book For Trans Women — The Rest of You Are Lucky to Read It

“The truth is I don’t know how to review Detransition, Baby. Torrey was too successful in what she set out to accomplish. If trans women have been and remain her…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Jan 8, 2021

A photo collage of the cover of Marlee Grace's Getting to Center, which features pastel abstract shapes, and a photo of Grace, a blond woman in a white turtleneck in front of a backdrop with pastel shapes on it.

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Getting to an Imperfect, Queer Center: Interview with Marlee Grace

“The goal, especially in 2020, has not been to feel better or feel my best, but it’s to feel less shitty than I did five minutes ago.” Marlee Grace’s Getting…

Sarah Yanni

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Jan 4, 2021

a person with long hair reading in a window

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Lez Liberty Lit: Drown Me In Best-of Lists

One last wave of all the “Best of 2020” lists you can handle! Plus, Roxane Gay is starting a book club, Carmen Maria Machado’s cheese ball recipe, how to be…

Ryan

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Dec 31, 2020

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69 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Winter 2020 and 2021

I believe we are in living in a truly incredible time for queer and feminist books. For proof, I offer you this majestic — if I do say so myself…

Casey

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Dec 30, 2020

a collage of book covers: Freedom is Constant Struggle by Angela Davis; Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis; Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis; Just Us by Claudia Rankine; Citizen by Claudia Rankine; Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown; Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang; ALLIES from The Boston Review; Experiments in Joy by Gabrielle Civil; Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell

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Reading List for the Revolution: Angela Davis & Radical Inspiration for 2021

What if we all committed to a radical reading list for 2021? What would we learn? And with this, what could we do? This collection of books will set you…

Sarah Yanni

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Dec 29, 2020

A Black and White collage of the author with Audre Lorde, side by side on a diagonal.

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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: December’s Prologue

Like so many others, I’ve been chirping about the end of 2020, as if the transition from one year to the next will somehow magically suture our open wounds.

Jehan

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Dec 28, 2020