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Brittney Griner and Cherelle Griner attend the 54th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 25, 2023 in Pasadena, California.
Literature Sports

Brittney Griner Is Writing a Memoir About Her Wrongful Russian Imprisonment

Griner’s memoir will talk about her arrest in Moscow, her detention, her trial, her wrongful imprisonment — and the outpouring of support that helped pave the way for her to get home.

Heather Hogan April 11, 2023 6 Comments
Literature

Rainbow Reading: Jeopardy’s Amy Schneider Is Writing a Memoir!

The memoir will come out in October and is available for preorder!

Yashwina April 6, 2023 3 Comments
The cover of "Recipe for Disaster" where a Blonde person is smushing their face into a sprinkle cake.
LGBT Book Reviews

Celebs Share Good Dishes To Get Through Bad Times In “Recipe for Disaster”

For those who find comfort in food while going through the unthinkable.

Shana April 5, 2023 1 Comment
Dear Prudence by Daniel M. Lavery
Book Features

Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist

“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”

Yashwina April 4, 2023 3 Comments
Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick
LGBT Book Reviews

This YA Book Is a Great Queer Second-Chance Romance

What would you do if the one person you loved the most was the one person you cannot remember?

Sa'iyda Shabazz April 4, 2023
Zoe Whittall has blunt blonde bangs with straight hair past her shoulders and wears a black tee that says VAG on it as well as a jean jacket. There's a green truck behind her.
Book Features First Person

Send Me to Low Femme Paradise

The problem of having to have a body in the world again.

Zoe Whittall March 27, 2023 7 Comments
a gorgeous layout of the Finding the Fool book which is a gradient blue to purple with moon phases on it, set against a background of color coordinating tarot cards and crystals
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft Book Features

Meg Jones Wall on Queer, Expansive Tarot

“What if we just let all of these cards have gender neutral pronouns and we break them free from these gender binaries and let them be every archetype?”

Nico March 24, 2023 6 Comments
I Will Find You Again by Sarah Lyu
LGBT Book Reviews

Love and Loss Lead to Healing in YA Novel “I Will Find You Again”

Sarah Lyu’s I Will Find You Again deftly captures the volatile nature of teenage girls falling in love with each other for the first time.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 23, 2023 1 Comment
The upcoming book Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko, surrounded by stars and against a blue and gray background
Literature

Rainbow Reading: Lesbian Jesus Hayley Kiyoko Wrote a Book

It’s based on her hit song “Girls Like Girls.”

Yashwina March 23, 2023 1 Comment
Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
LGBT Book Reviews

As Anti-LGBTQ Legislation Ramps Up in My Home State, I Find Myself Returning to This Book

It’s been a rough time to be a queer from Tennessee.

Yashwina March 22, 2023 7 Comments
The Fake by Zoe Whittal
LGBT Book Reviews

“The Fake” Is a Funny-Sad-Sexy Novel About the Psychological Damage Scammers Inflict

It’s a book about a scammer, but The Fake isn’t trying to hoodwink the reader.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 21, 2023 5 Comments
Infamous by Lex Croucher
LGBT Book Reviews

New Historical Romance “Infamous” Reads Like Queer Jane Austen

This is the sapphic Regency coming-of-age book you’ve been waiting for.

Casey March 20, 2023 9 Comments
Three copies of the cover of A Day of Fallen Night. A gold and teal dragon on an orange background. The text reads: A Day of Fallen Night / Samantha Shannon
LGBT Book Reviews

“A Day of Fallen Night” Is the Most Satisfying Queer and Trans Fantasy Book I’ve Ever Read

The prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree confirms that Samantha Shannon’s Roots of Chaos series is to queer nerds what The Lord of the Rings is to straight nerds.

Heather Hogan March 17, 2023 13 Comments
Matricide by Carola Tomaso. A badge reads LOST LESBIAN LIT.
Book Features

Lost Lesbian Lit: Mommy Issues! At the Women’s Writers Retreat

Lost Lesbian Lit is a series of essays about lesbian literature from before 2010 with fewer than 25 ratings on Goodreads.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 17, 2023 10 Comments
Three copies of the cover of The Daughters of Izdihar. A red, orange, and yellow sunset sits above a blue city. The silhouette of a woman in a robe, holding a wand, sits in the middle, between two outlined buildings.
LGBT Book Reviews

“The Daughters of Izdihar” Is Fantastical Queer Feminist Rage

I have seen some angry women in fantasy stories before, but I have never felt the kind of fury pulsating off of them the way I did with queer water-bender Nehal.

Heather Hogan March 16, 2023 5 Comments
Faltas by Cecilia Gentili, Virology by Joseph Osmundson, Brown Neon by Raquel Gutiérrez, Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, Ma and Me by Putsata Reang, How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler, Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam, Pretty Baby by Chris Belcher, Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang, and Manywhere by Morgan Thomas
Book Features

Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!

Revisit Autostraddle’s reviews and interviews with this year’s Lambda Literary 2023 shortlisted books and authors.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 15, 2023 6 Comments
Raving by McKenzie Wark
LGBT Book Reviews

Explore NYC’s Underground Queer and Trans Rave Scene in “Raving”

Readers are constantly reminded that so much of what makes white-dominated raves comes from Black culture.

L March 14, 2023
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
LGBT Book Reviews

Queer Novella Reimagines Sherlock Holmes and Watson As College Ex-Girlfriends

“The Mimicking of Known Successes” provides a delightful mashup of science fiction and cozy mystery, with a delicious side of sapphic romance. 

Casey March 9, 2023 5 Comments
Love At First Set by Jennifer Dugan features cartoon women at a gym, one is blonde with her hair up wearing a white tank next to a bench press, and one is a brunette and wearing a dress looking shy
Literature

Rainbow Reading: Lifting Queers, Listen Up! New Sapphic Romance Set in a Gym Is Coming

Plus, an upcoming YA book about a Mexican American nonbinary teen promises love in a taqueria.

Yashwina March 9, 2023 3 Comments
The following books: Lesbian Love Story by Amelia Possanza, Forever Is Now, Dykette by Jenny Fran Davis, Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby, Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson, The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher, This Delicious Death by Kayla Cottingham, Body Horror, A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett, and Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante
Book Lists

114 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Spring 2023

New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.

Casey March 7, 2023 17 Comments
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