Results for: book
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Mini Crossword Doesn’t Wanna Go Home
I got hit in the head with a book this morning.
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Danny Lavery on Queer Wanting, Difficult Experiences, and Oh Yes His New Book
Trying desperately to want less than what one truly requires — and the goodness that comes from giving up that ghost — is a prominent theme in “Something That May Shock and Discredit You,” Daniel Lavery’s new collection of essays, out Feb. 11.
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Short Fiction Collection “Girlfriends” Presents Expansive, Nonlinear View of Transition and Dysphoria
The trans women in Girlfriends often find themselves stuck in the spiderweb of someone else’s drama or self-implosion.
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AF+ Crossword Supports Queer Indie Bookstores
I’m reading a book about anti-gravity.
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“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody
Reading this book was compelling, fluid, and joyous.
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“Birds of Prey” Is the Chaotic Sparkly Queer Misandrist Comic Book Movie of My Dreams
With two on-screen queer women characters, “Birds of Prey” is an irate, sparkle laden, middle finger in the air to a society that otherwise cowers to the angry whims of men. Who the hell wouldn’t sign up for that?
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Queer and Appalachian: Creating Art Out of Loneliness
Throughout the decade of making this photography book, I have learned new senses of belonging.
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11 Queer Romance + YA Comfort Reads I Revisit on Bad Days
When I find myself needing comfort from the atrocities of being an adult, these are the books I usually turn to.
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8 Great Books About Queer Monstrous Women
“Books about *monstrous women* of all varieties. Softhearted giantesses, feral shapeshifters, malicious sea creatures, lonely gorgons. Women with the strength of gods, women with fangs and fur, women formed of craggy rock or ice or fire.”
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Lez Liberty Lit: “Books” Are Still Not A Personality
“Where are the boundaries between story and real life, between consciousness and an idea?” Plus, the petty errors that pull you out of a piece of writing, how books became a lifestyle brand and, one assumes, a personality, and more.
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‘Memory Piece’ Understands the Power of an Archive
Through three interconnected characters, Lisa Ko pens a very queer book about memory, art, and revolution.
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“Red, White & Royal Blue” Is a Perfect Gay Rom-Com (With Bonus Rachel Maddow and Sarah Shahi)
Prime Video’s adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s beloved book is a sweet and sexy delight.
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Author Meryl Wilsner on Writing MILFs, Age Gaps, and Twisting Tropes
“We never learned to write books, we only learn how to write the book that we’re writing.”
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Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art is a book about selfies and our relationships to them.
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Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present
If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”
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“Judy Blume Forever” Documentary Made Me Cry Big Nostalgia Tears
Anyone who has been paying attention in the last few years knows that book banning has only gotten worse since Judy Blume’s books started getting banned 40 years ago.
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New Historical Romance “Infamous” Reads Like Queer Jane Austen
This is the sapphic Regency coming-of-age book you’ve been waiting for.
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Some Covers of Some Lesbian Sci-Fi Books
When I made a pledge to myself a few years back to only read sci-fi books by or about queer people, I wondered whether the cover art would be subtly queered in the process. The answer, in many cases, was no: it was queered to the absolute max.
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“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors
This book contains, notably, an essay by Michelle Tea that is still ringing in my ears.
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Andie Burke’s “Fly With Me” Takes Sapphic Fake Dating to New Heights
Yes, there’s grief. But Fly With Me is one of the swooniest, funniest, sexiest books I’ve ever read.