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Rainbow Reading: More Like Mercury READtrograde, Am I Right!

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Hi everyone! It’s Yashwina, back with my metal detector and everything I’ve dug up on the literary internet over the last couple weeks. We’ve survived Mercury Retrograde (well, mostly) and it’s been a doozy. Maybe I’ve gone over the same page eleventy bazillion times, my relationship to language may be a little threadbare, but on the bright side — there has been so much good shit to read!

Alrighty, folks, let’s make like a boulder and roll. On this week’s Rainbow Reading, we’ve got:


Shelf Care: Reviews, Essays, and other Things of Note


When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.

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Grace Lavery in her interview with Drew about her new memoir,
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis


Autocorrect: Books content from the last couple weeks at Autostraddle!

I’m still hooked on AUTOSTRADDLE THEMED WORDLE — never been more protective of a streak in my life!



That’s all she wrote, folks! If you’re a queer writer, particularly an early-career queer writer: I’d love to hear about the cool things you’re up to so that I can share links to your published essays, book reviews, short stories, poems, and longform features on LGBTQ+ topics! Please email me links for consideration at [email protected] with the subject line “Rainbow Reading Submission” — I’m an avid browser-tab-collector, and I especially want to hear from you if you’ve just landed your first publication or first major byline.

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Yashwina

Yashwina Canter is a reader, writer, and dyke putting down roots in Portland, Oregon. You can find her online at @yashwinacanter.

Yashwina has written 53 articles for us.

4 Comments

  1. So many great essays and interviews – cats! Manhunt! butchness! kids horror! Thanks, really enjoying this series!

  2. My new favorite series here at AS. So many great recommendations!!!

    And Kayla‘s short story truly is gorgeous.

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