Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lesbian Poet, Is Dead at 83
Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-Winning poet and ardent devotee of the natural world throughout her life, has passed away from lymphoma at the age of 83.
“They Want Trans Shit to Be a PSA”: A Trans Woman Writers’ Roundtable
“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”
Korean-American Bestselling Author R.O. Kwon Is Bisexual, Has Flawless Signature Eyeshadow
Bestselling author of The Incendiaries is out as bisexual, proud, and giving us big feelings about eyeshadow and representation.
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.
Where Are the Welcome Signs? Finding Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Community in Unexpected Places
Why is it sometimes hardest to find other queer individuals in places where they seem to be everywhere? The new book, “How Places Make Us,” takes us into the lives of lesbian, bisexual and queer residents in four small cities and reveals how and why LBQ individuals forge especially strong ties in unlikely places.
Read a F*cking Book Club: Let’s Talk About “When They Call You a Terrorist”
Let’s talk about black studies, queer studies, black queer lives, and When They Call You A Terrorist!
Try Your Liquid Luck With This Harry Potter Trivia Quiz
Don’t count your owls before they’re delivered!
100 of My Favorite Poets For Your Survival Pack
In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.
Queers at the End of the World: An Interview with Queer Feminist Fabulist Carmen Maria Machado
Talking about Kristen Stewart, gems, lesbian tropes, Girl Scout crushes, swine flu, the apocalypse and more with award-winning queer writer Carmen Maria Machado.
Read a F*cking Book Club: We’re Reading “When They Call You A Terrorist”!
We’re gonna read Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ new memoir and it’s gonna be great!
Emily Danforth Is Drawn Back to Montana and We’re Drawn Back to “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” (the Movie!)
I didn’t get to be at the set for the whole shoot, because I was teaching last year. I went once with my wife Erica and we got to go for a few days. I was in a daze of disbelief, touching people like, “Are you real?”
The Definitive List of Places Carol and Therese Ate in “The Price of Salt”
“Therese and Carol drink beer and coffee at the Palm Court in the Plaza Hotel with Richard, Therese’s pitiful and jealous boyfriend, who pays for their drinks.”
How YA Novels Unexpectedly Enabled My Own Bisexual Revelation
I wonder why the story of a bisexual teenage boy is the one that allowed me to explicitly consider my identity as a bisexual adult woman for the first time.
Read A F*cking Book Club: Talking with Ariel Gore About “We Were Witches”
We’re discussing We Were Witches and sharing a brilliant interview with author Ariel Gore. Come join Autostraddle Book Club – the comments are wide open and we wanna hear everything you’ve got to say about this book.
“Check Please” Creator Ngozi Ukazu Chats with Tillie Walden About Her New Book “Spinning”
You know what one of my most common questions at school visits is? “How do you come out?” Kids actually ask me this, in front of their peers and teachers. It’s unbelievable to me, it’s so brave.
Our Sex Is Good: Kink Writing in the 1980s–1990s
How two 1970s and 1980s lesbian BDSM books changed the national conversation around feminism, lesbianism, and kink.
Read A F*cking Book Club: We’re Gonna Read “We Were Witches!”
We Were Witches by Ariel Gore is an autobiographical novel that uses magick spells and inverted fairy tales to combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans. We’re going to read it together this month!
c c cummings: An Excerpt From Mean by Myriam Gurba
“To read a piece about lesbian e e cummings, you have to fully commit, but you could tell Dr. Brown was scared.”
The Bisexual Character in My YA Novel Isn’t “Perfect” — Which Is Perfect
Being bi is Gen’s favorite thing about herself. It’s as freeing for her as it’s become for me.