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The 5 Cookbooks by Women I Couldn’t Live Without

These are full of scribbled notes, neon “make me next” tabs, oil drips, crinkled pages and most of all, recipes that I adore. They’ve brought immense amounts of joy into my life by way of conversations over dinner and memories made while cooking with people I love, and they all contribute to making me a better, happier cook day by day.

Reneice Charles April 30, 2018 17 Comments
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Read These 10 Books with Queer Witches

Queers and witches just go together.

Siobhan April 5, 2018 8 Comments
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8 Dark Lesbian Mysteries and Thrillers That’ll Give You Deep Chills

These dark mysteries and thrillers featuring lesbian and bisexual main characters focus less on the romance and more on the hair raising on the back of your neck.

Casey April 3, 2018 19 Comments
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8 Feel-Good, Comfort Reads Featuring Lesbians of Color

Here are eight light-hearted books featuring queer women (mostly lesbian) characters of color. Some are YA, some are romance, and one is science fiction/fantasy. All are fluffy gay goodness!

Casey March 8, 2018 23 Comments
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8 Books to Read If You Loved Carmen Maria Machado’s “Her Body and Other Parties”

Here are eight queer short story collections that embody the same kind of creepy, “bodies as horror,” fabulist, dark fairy tale feel that Machado’s book does.

Casey February 13, 2018 3 Comments
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Read These 8 Works of Intersex Fiction Right Now

Eight stories that feature intersex characters for you to read right now.

Casey January 11, 2018 15 Comments
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65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018

Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.

Ryan Yates January 2, 2018 9 Comments
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The Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2017

2017 has been pretty awesome for a ton of new queer and/or feminist things to read! Here are some of the best.

Ryan Yates December 18, 2017 18 Comments
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8 Soft Femme Memoirs for Your Femme But Not Too Femmey Needs

The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.

Casey December 14, 2017 14 Comments
Book Lists

8 Queer Speculative Short Story Collections

Love queer speculative fiction but don’t have the time or energy to read novels or series? Then these eight collections and anthologies of queer speculative short fiction are for you!

Casey November 6, 2017 13 Comments
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25 LGBT History Books to Add to Your Epic Queer History Reading List

Celebrate LGBT History Month by reading LGBT history books!

Ryan Yates October 27, 2017 8 Comments
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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.

Ryan Yates September 29, 2017 9 Comments
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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.

Casey September 27, 2017 10 Comments
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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!

Casey September 20, 2017 39 Comments
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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.

Priya September 18, 2017 7 Comments
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26 Triumphantly ’90s Lesbian Book Covers

What a colorful decade for us all!

Riese August 24, 2017 56 Comments
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8 Books Featuring Queer Parents To Read This Summer

The feel-good books centering queer parents you should read right now.

Casey August 8, 2017 10 Comments
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8 Black Lesbian Speculative Fiction Books To Read Right Now

Where to find Black queer lady leads in dystopian, science fiction, magical realism, and paranormal fiction.

Casey July 25, 2017 16 Comments
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8 Books That Feature Bisexual Women (And Don’t Focus On Their Sex Lives)

Here are eight books about adult bisexual ladies going about their full, complex lives. There are definitely some sexy times to look forward to but sex isn’t the focus of the narrative.

Casey June 29, 2017 43 Comments
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8 Urban Fantasy Books That Feature Queer Women

These gritty and glittery queer urban fantasy novels feature sex-work activism, genetic experiments, polyamory, erotic antique-postcard painting, sibling rivalry and more — and a ton of queer women characters.

Casey May 29, 2017 18 Comments
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