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8 Books Featuring Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women

Looking for clearly queer Asian and Pacific Islander women in fiction? Look no further.

Casey April 24, 2017 19 Comments
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25 New Queer YA Books To Read This Spring and Summer

Queer young adult fiction is exploding right now, but with so much out there, how can you figure out what to read next? These 25 queer YA novels — including superheroes, romance, small-town mysteries, mermaids, assassins and more — all feature or were written by LGBTQ women.

Patrice Caldwell April 14, 2017 34 Comments
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10 Poets to Strengthen You When the World Wants to Erase You

These 10 queer poets focus on rawness and beauty and the importance of being true.

Tammy Danan April 4, 2017 13 Comments
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8 Books with Masculine-of-Center Characters and No Sexual Assault

Many books that feature masculine women characters or characters on the trans masculine spectrum show sexual assault. These ones don’t.

Casey March 29, 2017 32 Comments
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14 Comics That Celebrate Female Friendship For Galentine’s Day

These comics and graphic novels make women’s friendships the focus.

Courtney Hilden February 13, 2017 12 Comments
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8 Queer Sci-Fi Books To Read Right Now

From hard and soft sci-fi to military sci-fi to space opera: here are eight (gay) books you should add to your reading list.

Casey February 13, 2017 52 Comments
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8 Lesbian BDSM Novels to Curl Your Toes (and Maybe Melt Your Heart)

Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.

Casey January 18, 2017 16 Comments
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45 Queer and Feminist Books You Need To Read in Early 2017

Everything you want to read.

Ryan Yates January 16, 2017 9 Comments
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Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2016

Read these f*cking books.

Ryan Yates January 2, 2017 20 Comments
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9 Lesbian Romance Audiobooks To Warm Your Heart On Chilly Nights

Looking to listen to some lesbian romance as you travel (or don’t) this week? Need to take a break from it all and escape into your headphones? Here are the 9 lesbian romance audiobooks you’ve been waiting for!

Casey December 23, 2016 16 Comments
Book Lists Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide 2016: (More) Books for the Queer Academic

What do you get for the person who is perpetually tired, underpaid, and overworked? More books, obviously.

Ari December 8, 2016 21 Comments
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8 Queer High Fantasy Books For Your Epic Sword-Wielding Needs

Like, Guy Gavriel Kay, but queer. Tolkien, but queer. Melanie Rawn, but queer.

Casey December 5, 2016 131 Comments
Book Lists Politics + Activism

Rebel Girls: A Reading List for the Revolution

This election shook me to my core. That’s undeniable. I am still grieving and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. I am so fucking angry and I don’t know that I ever won’t be. But I refuse to be scared, or cowed, or defeated.

Carmen November 23, 2016 7 Comments
Book Lists

8 Middle Grade Books with LGBTQ Characters

“I have a very precocious eight year old daughter who began speaking at nine months and decided that she would marry a woman before she turned two. She learned the term lesbian from the show Supergirl, and now matter of factly proclaims herself a lesbian to anyone.”

Casey November 7, 2016 40 Comments
Book Lists

The Ultimate Maggie Nelson Reading List

Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts doesn’t have an index, so I made one for it. I can promise that it is both longer and shorter than you think.

Maree October 31, 2016 17 Comments
Book Lists Halloween

Normal Blood Feelings: 5 Dark (and Sometimes Sexy) Queer Vampire Stories

If witches are a way to tell stories about women and power, vampires are a way to tell stories about women and sex.

Ryan Yates October 28, 2016 13 Comments
Book Lists

8 Books Featuring Lesbian May/December Romance To Curl Up With Tonight

Did you love Susan Choi’s My Education, about a sexy student/professor love affair? Here are eight more books you won’t want to miss.

Casey September 26, 2016 50 Comments
Book Lists

Fall 2016 Book Preview: 48 Queer and Feminist Books To Add To Your Reading List

Welcome to your list of queer and/or feminist books coming out in fall 2016. New Zadie Smith, Ivan Coyote, Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood, Bae Suah and more.

Ryan Yates August 29, 2016 28 Comments
Book Lists

18 More Classic Literature Characters Who Will Bamboozle You With Their Gay Gayness

Is there room in your boat, Anne Shirley?

Heather Hogan August 25, 2016 114 Comments
Book Lists Geekery

6 Awesome Books About Women Kicking Ass In STEM

Finish out your summer with some queer engineer approved picks.

Laura Mandanas August 24, 2016 19 Comments
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