“Orange is the New Black” premieres today, here is your really thorough reading list — from Assata Shakur to nuns against nukes to incredible journalism on the various horrors of the U.S. criminal “justice” system.
Queer Canadian poets tend to be experimental, to push against boundaries. They tell it like it is, challenge our ways of thinking, and actively organize for change. Their words are hilarious, heartbreaking, and wise. Here are some queer Canadian poets — mostly female-identified — whose words have changed my world for the better.
Recommendations include books with queer content, reads you might have missed in high school, and recent award nominees!
I want us to embark on some serious herstorical journeys through time, but I simply cannot condense herstory into one post, so I’m gonna condense everyone else’s pieces, books, movies, and projects about women’s history into one instead!
These women changed feminism forever with their scholarship. Let’s vow to never forget their names.
Seriously Carrie Brownstein could tell me to buy her dinner and I’d be like “No problem Carrie Brownstein. I’m a little tight for cash right now but you get that steak tartare.”
Definitely read these books.
Boy do y’all love to read about rope bondage!
With new books by Roxane Gay, Hannah Hart, Sarah Waters, Radclyffe and more, there are lots of things to read and talk about.
Spread the gay agenda with these colourful, easy-to-read books teaching love, acceptance, and science.
“Wildly, the girls locked to each other. Their bodies were gleaming now with sweat. Lip to lip, breast to breast, thigh to slippery thigh, they heaved and gyrated, ecstasy rising like a lava wave.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
Libraries give us the chance to know something about ourselves and we love them.
Ten important queer and feminist books coming this spring.
The best stories fuck us up and force us to put ourselves back together in a new configuration.
It’s not up to just anyone. It’s up to sex workers to define their own destiny.
You should celebrate Black History Month by reading all of these books right now.
Not content with producing a documentary, greeting CeCe McDonald outside of prison and shutting it down on daytime TV, Laverne Cox added signing a book deal to her list of accomplishments in the first half of the first month of 2014.
Read these books.