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80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Winter 2022
If you thought 2021 was a banner year for LGBTQ+ books, wait until you see what the first three months of 2022 have in store for queer book lovers.
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Chris Belcher on “Pretty Baby,” Dungeon Dynamics, and the Expansiveness of Queer Sex
“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”
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Also.Also.Also: Everything You Need To Know Heading Into Banned Books Week
As Banned Books Week nears, here’s who’s pushing for the bans and who’s fighting back.
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 90, March 2022
“currently googling disobedience + spit”
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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
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So You Want To Go To Work
One of the most popular requests I have gotten for this column is “What do I wear to work?” And I get it! You have to get dressed for work, and the kinds of clothes that are typically deemed “workplace appropriate” are absolutely racist, classist, ableist, transphobic, homophobic and sexist. Not to mention, no two workplaces are the same!
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How To Do Fall in Florida (Or Any Other Seasonless, Hot Place)
Making seasonal change in a place where the seasons shift subtly or not at all.
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So You Want To Dress for Fall
As a woman who has been known to describe herself as a “coatsexual,” it was incredibly challenging for me to not select upwards of twenty coats and jackets here.
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So You Want to Dress Like the Main Character
Is pretending I am the protagonist in romance novel a fun way to tamp down some of my nerves about being back out in the world? Yes!
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Don’t Let Your Nail Length Stop You From Having Great Sex
1998 called — they said sorry for pushing stereotypes about nails and queer sex. Shelli and Ro are here to set the record straight.
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So You Want To Buy A Coat
It’s mid-November, and where I am on the east coast, that means it is time to swan about dramatically in various kind of outerwear!
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“We Do This ‘Til We Free Us” Makes Abolition Accessible Without Claiming It’s Easy
Imagining what true justice would look like is difficult and strange and convoluted and there aren’t easy answers. Kaba, along with countless other writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries, has spent decades doing so anyway – and has given us this book as a gift as we attempt to do the same.
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 91: April 2022
“Have you tried butter on toast though?… it’s pretty good.”
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75 of the Best Queer Books of 2021
It was a banner year for queer horror! Plus, fantasy, historical fiction, memoir, nonfiction, YA, middle grade, poetry picks — and so much more!
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27 Big Brands Selling LGBTQ+ Pride Apparel in 2022, Loosely Ranked By Subjective Criteria
Another year, another chance for big brands to give money to big non-profits and remind us that love is love, love is for everyone, love unites, etc.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin on “Manhunt,” Martyrdom, and the Unimportance of Being Valid
“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”
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Morgan Thomas On Weaving Genderqueer History Into Their Debut Short Fiction Collection “Manywhere”
“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort of ‘mythos’ of the South. So I wanted to fill in that gap.”
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NEW MERCH ALERT: Tees! Sweatshirts! Stickers! Face Masks! QUEER! MAGNETIC! POETRY!
Buy something for you, your pod friends, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, your mom who’s secretly gay, your best friend who you’re secretly gay for, and your polycule.
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6 Queer-Owned Sex Shops You’ll Vibe With
As we stock up on toys and lube for winter, we can put our queer money back into queer-owned sex shops!
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Our Favorite Hand Lotions For Soothing Your Extra-Dry Hands
Who’s got dry hands WE’VE ALL GOT DRY HANDS