“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.”
Carolyn’s Team Pick: Flannery O’Connor’s looks like it would be good for napping.
“In high school I worked at McDonald’s. Got fired. I worked at a fabric store. Got fired. In college I worked as a custodian. Got fired. Wasn’t too good at the physical stuff. One person asked me if I was so bad on purpose or whether I was really that uncomprehending of the relation between soap and water.”
“She died / a famous woman / denying // her wounds / denying // her wounds / came / from the same source as her power.”
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Carmen’s Team Pick: This is a Melissa Gira Grant appreciation post.
Rachel’s Team Pick: “When one writes a thing — when you discover and then put it down, which is the essence of discovering it — one is done with it. What people get out of it is none of the writer’s business.”
Has anyone else not read this yet? No? Just me?
Rachel’s Team Pick: Trying to make a list of only 10 badass women writers is really hard.
Whitney’s Team Pick: Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are” is as brilliant and curmudgeonly as ever in this mini documentary. I love you, Maurice.
Hard times for Portland’s Just Out Newsmagazine, Toronto’s Glad Day’s bookstore and Minneapolis’ True Colors Bookstore.
I want to help you have a conversation with Eileen Myles. It starts on the Internet.
Fuzzy things are the most interesting, if you ask me.
Carmen’s Team Pick: That’s what rejection letters are y’all. They’re just mistakes.
Everything about this is something you love.
The National Book Award finalists have been announced, and a majority of them are by female authors.
“Well, you know what they say: Lint is a shell’s best friend.”
School libraries are one of the best places to find LGBT teen literature…which is why anti-gay adults are so afraid of them. Luckily, you can do something about that.
We’re going to read Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and it’s going to be great.