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Get Ready For Autostraddle Summer Book Club Extravaganzaramapalooza
Get ready to read ALL OF THE BOOKS.
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Lily’s Team Pick: Better Book Titles
Better Book Titles Tumblr: Because it would be really funny if Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath” was actually titled “Fuck tha Police”.
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Eileen Myles Still Has It: The Autostraddle Review of “Snowflake / different streets”
“Suddenly it all became very clear to me what made the two books different, what brought them together, and what let them stand alone. And suddenly I was crying.”
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Sinclair Sexsmith on “Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica”: The Autostraddle Interview
“The questions quickly became, what is BDSM? And what is lesbian? I’m not sure I know the answer in general, but I figured out a context for this anthology to be born into, some parameters about kinks and fetishes and gender.”
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Writers Gone Wild: Lambda Literary Awards Spark Debate on the Future of Gay Books
The winners of the 23rd annual Lambda Literary Awards were announced last night in a ceremony at the School of Visual Arts Theatre in New York. And now to read all of them.
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Autostraddle Read a F*cking Book Club #3 – Bastard Out Of Carolina
“Oh, but that’s why I got to cut his throat,” she said plainly. “If I didn’t love the son of a bitch, I’d let him live forever.”
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Read a F*cking Book Review – “Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme”
WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
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I Read “Trans/Love” And It Was Awesome
“I just realized wow, there’s so much to be said from the whole range of perspectives: trans women and trans men and everything in between.”
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Reading Rainbow 2012: The Things We’re Finally Actually Going To Read This Year
What will you read in 2012?
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“The Marriage Plot” Thickens, Kinda
“Middlesex” author Jeffery Eugenides new novel “The Marriage Plot” is really good! But is it really aptly described as “a feminist re-telling”? Not so much.
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“Cult Classic of Taiwanese Lesbian Literature” Now Excerpted In English, Available Online
Rachel’s Team Pick: “My prototype of a woman was the type who would appear in hallucinations at the last moments of your freezing to death at the top of an icy mountain, a mythical beauty who blurred the line between dreams and reality.”
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Read A F*cking Book Club #3: We’re Reading Bastard Out Of Carolina!
We’re going to read Bastard Out Of Carolina and we want you to read it with us!
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Get A Conversation with Eileen Myles All To Yourself
I want to help you have a conversation with Eileen Myles. It starts on the Internet.
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Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels (Currently On My Kindle)
Romance novels: they’re not just for straight people anymore. In this episode we have hot cops/FBI agents, congresswomen passing more than bills, and lots of folks playing doctor.
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More Feminist Non-Fiction Recommendations for Your Reading Pleasure
Five feminist books for you!
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It’s Black History Month! Here’s Five Of My Favorite LGBTQ Black Women
A history lesson, a poetry lesson, and a some famous queer black ladies.
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Autostraddle Read A F*cking Book Club #2: The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
THE TIME HAS COME to discuss your feelings/ideas/lucid dreams/lesbian poetry about The IHOP Papers. Come on in and grab a seat.
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Seriously Guys, We Need You To Read This F*cking Book
YOU GUYS. You haven’t read this book yet have you. Please do this. Do it for me. I need to talk about my feelings about waitressing. There’s a lesbian sex scene! At least one! I can’t remember exactly!
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Be Still My Heart: Eileen Myles Tackles the Female Life; Black Lesbian Poets Hit the Road
I am convinced that something Eileen Myles loves is something I will love. That is, if I don’t love it already.
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On “Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels”
“So much second-guessing involved every decision that I made that I became a paradox in a way, a combination of bravado and insecurity.”