Results for: queer parenting
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65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018
Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.
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Things I Read That I Love #245: Listening to a Sad Song Can Become a Way of Pushing on a Bruise
Topics include sorority fashions, Taylor Swift, plus-size fashion, being a minority in start-up media, that Piece of Shit Joe Arpaio, Kathy Griffin, emo and more!
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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?”
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Lez Liberty Lit: Silent Book Club
A silent book club, women Vikings, small-press books out in August, Native people in literature, headless women on book covers and more!
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Myriam Gurba’s Floating World in “Mean”
Gurba’s writing feels devastating and holy and hilarious all at once, like a dead sea scroll that is as fun to read as an old issue of Playboy.
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Things I Read That I Love #244: How We Want To Taste, How We Wish To Be Known.
Topics include women in the KKK, the Confederate flag, women’s magazines as aspirational employment centers, smartphones & teenagers, Captain EO, murder, the stories we tell ourselves and more.
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8 Books About Queer Friendships to Snuggle Up With This Fall
Most queer books focus on romantic relationships. These ones are centered on queer friendship.
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Read These Queer Banned Books Right Now
Read queer banned books. Support their authors. And maybe buy an extra copy or two of these and leave them in a school library near you.
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10 South Asian LGBTQ Books That Changed My Life
From fiction to anthologies and histories to graphic novels, the last ten years have shown that telling our own stories is essential to building a community and garnering the strength to live an authentic life.
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15 Must-Read Bisexual Nonfiction Books
Whether you’re looking for powerful personal bisexual narratives, insightful political analysis of bisexual issues, or information to help understand bisexuality (yours or someone else’s), there are books in here you don’t want to miss!
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Things I Read That I Love #246: To Be A Work-in-Progress Is Nearly Unacceptable
Topics include Taylor Swift, Dylan Roof, where your Forever 21 shirts get made, Colin Kaepernick, reading Jane Eyre while black, Milk Bar, the sorrow and shame of the accidental killer, and more.
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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.
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Things I Read That I Love #242: One By One I Am Letting Go Of The Things That Killed Me
Topics include murder, Uber, R Kelly, people getting lost and dying in National Parks, the child molestation scandal on the isolated Pitcairn Island, fast fashion, how Gotham gave us Donald Trump and so much more!
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Now Is A Good Time To Get Into Patricia Lockwood
Priestdaddy, the poet’s new coming-of-age memoir, has a lot of twists and a lot of power.
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Things I Read That I Love #240: It’s So Frustrating To Me That I’m Not a Rock Star
Topics include Rachel Maddow, Chelsea Manning, the new Ken dolls, “Get Out,” mobile homes, “writing Iranian-American,” Elizabeth Wurtzel, the GOOP summit and more!
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Queer Crip Love Fest: In Control of My Own Narrative
“It’s interesting and refreshing to be in this time period where authors are resisting in their own way.”
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Lez Liberty Lit: Dog-Eared Days of Summer
Mental health zines, libraries’ political and social power, what counts as a diverse book and more.
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In Conversation With Sarah Schulman: “They’re Being Taught That Control Is Freedom”
“This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing — I mean, this is the definition of injustice.”
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Drawn to Comics: 15-Year-Old Maggie Thrash Interviews Herself in This Brand New Exclusive “Honor Girl” Excerpt
“After that summer, all I wanted was reassurance — not from other people necessarily, but from myself. I would have loved to talk to my adult self and ask her a million questions: Am I ok? Do I make it out of my teens alive? Who do I turn out to be, in the end?”
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EXCLUSIVE: Malinda Lo’s Creepy New Book Cover + Delightful Q&A
“There’s a certain kind of girl you never really see — even when she’s right in front of you. Some of those invisible girls are watching you as carefully as you’re overlooking them. A story of friendship, love, loyalty, and murder.”