Results for: dead to me
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Amber Dawn’s Memoir, “How Poetry Saved My Life”: The Autostraddle Interview
“How Poetry Saved My Life” tells Dawn’s story of sex-work and survivorship through poetry and prose. We spoke with her about this latest work, queer writers and speculative fiction.
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Half Of 2013’s National Magazine Award Finalists Are Women, For Real, So Let’s Meet Them
Last year the NMA nominated zero ladies in its prime categories but this year we snagged half the noms! Why? Plus, I’ve got an epic rundown on everything you need to know about every ladyjourno finalist.
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Things I Read That I Love #64: Giddy, Girlish and Deeply Shallow
Topics include sorority rush, circus sideshow acts, murder, Jeopardy, college in China, Utopian musical communities, the post office, the mall, the pope, the post office and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #58: Remember Friendster
Topics include mass murder, online dating in 2003, 9/11, anorexia, how Wal-Mart kills people, death of a bad dad, life after a breakup and so much more!
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Science Says Reading the Classics Makes You Smarter, Nicer, Better Overall
If you enjoy Shakespeare, other classical texts, and poetry, your brain has superpowers.
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Poetry is Dead’s Queer Issue Speaks Directly To Your Heart
Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, Poetry is Dead Magazine’s Queer Issue is pleasant evidence to the contrary.
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Things I Read That I Love #55: Snow Fall, Snow Fall, Snow Fall
Topics include a deadly avalanche, Johnny & Winona, joy, survivalists, a church abuse scandal, a Mormon reporter on the Romney bus, malls, revealing your HIV status and contemplating psychopathy.
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Lez Liberty Lit #8: I Never Thanked You, Batman
In this week’s Liberty Lit: a new book vending machine, Google poetry, queer writers of colour, free short fiction, a review of a Clueless spin-off novel and more.
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Things I Read That I Love #50: Habitat Habit!
Topics include serial television programs, Mr. Rogers, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, caffeine, underground new york city, boomtown North Dakota, marching band hazing, murder and so much more!
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My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Vanessa, Contributing Editor
The writers I like tend to be women who live, or who have lived, in New York, and who write about girls, growing up, and what it’s like to be a human being in this world.
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Fonseca’s Team Pick – Leah Horlick
Leah Horlick is an ass-kicking, award-winning Canadian poet who is taking the queer literary world by storm.
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Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Darrin Hagen’s “The Edmonton Queen”
“If anything, The Edmonton Queen reads as a triumphant fuck you in the face of death and losing people you love before their time.”
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My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Rachel, Senior Editor
I like weird books, and these people write them.
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Plentitude Magazine’s Inaugural Issue: The Autostraddle Review
Maybe we all share the same eyes or the same hearts. Maybe we just share the same vocabulary.
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Things I Read That I Love #52: The Very Special One-Year Anniversary Edition
We celebrate an entire year of TIRTLs with a look at 32 of my favorite longreads of all time!
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And Yet Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels
The Law and Order Edition.
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Autostraddle Book Club #6: We’re Reading “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”
“Girls kissing girls in barns, in twisty slides on playgrounds, in abandoned hospitals. Miles City, Montana. The 1990s. Swimming. Summer. Cowgirls. Dinosaur discovering. Ferris Wheels. Conversion therapy. Taco Johns.”
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Things I Read That I Love #43: High Times
Topics include hipster-bashing, Anna Nicole Smith, stolen bikes, writing non-fiction, teaching kids to write, the Gloucester pregnancy “pact” and so much more!
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14 Girls We Wanted To Be Back Then: Kickass Heroines From YA & Children’s Books Of Yesteryear
We spent the 80’s and early 90’s with our noses in books, dreaming of being Scout or Molly or Fern or Heidi or Ramona or Harriet or so many more! What are your favorites?
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Lez Liberty Lit: Your New Biweekly Guide To Queer Lady Literature
Welcome to the inaugural Lez Liberty Lit post, a column where we tell you things about books that will make your brain smarter, better, faster, stronger.