“I learned to accept that I contain multitudes, and neither my sexual orientation nor gender identity are exempt from my multifaceted nature.”

Hurts So Good showcases pain experts of all types for a more holistic understanding of why and how we use pain for pleasure.

No one’s life is split into two simple chapters. Santos lets all her former eras live right next to each other in the mirror.

If it’s too much pressure to pick out a book for your literary pal, consider a creative display shelf, a customizable book planter, pressed flower bookmarks, and other presents that are bookish but not books!

We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.

Over the decade-ish that I’ve been writing this column, the number of published queer and trans stories has exploded.

The transformative power of queer breakups, exploring the ongoing trauma of the AIDS crisis, some 2021 faves, and more.

Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.

The color-coded bookshelf conversation continues, queer books are unstoppable, queerness in Sally Rooney’s work, and more.

Whether or not you love the winter holiday season, Autostraddle’s resident lesbrarian has got some great reads for you this December! Just take this quiz and I will match you with an amazing queer book.

Are you considering NaNoWriMo? Plus, a library from Solange, how literary gatekeepers can elevate Black trans women writers, queer webcomics and more.

Queer time and liminal spaces, a library facing possible charges for carrying sex education books, the myth of universality in literature, and more.

The dark side of the golden trans literary moment, what your emoji use says about how old you are (probably), what a hot streak means for artistic success and more.

Creating work while living with chronic pain, a brief grounding exercise, the state of ambiguous loss and more.

No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the way some of us still interact with our worlds today.

A great new horror comic, what to do when things feel scattered, a new Octavia Butler biography, the possibility of wandering in the digital age and more.

It was a banner year for queer horror! Plus, fantasy, historical fiction, memoir, nonfiction, YA, middle grade, poetry picks — and so much more!

Phones belong in museums, the magic ingredients for creativity, why work is not the same as identity and more.

How to live in a burning world without losing your mind, read these books in the second half of 2021, why to reconsider air conditioning, uncategorized creative work, a love poem and more.