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The Speakeasy Book Club Is Reading “Sister Outsider” And You Should Too!
The Speakeasy is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.
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Zine Crush: I Love You Queerly
I Love You Queerly is a collaborative zine being sold for charity that celebrates queer expressions of love! It’s by queers, for queers, and for a good cause.
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National Poetry Month: YaliniDream Opens Spaces and Hearts
I ended up taking advantage of the fact that I was on the margins. I used the power of invisibility to crack open spaces at the edges. The power of performance is impermanence — nobody could catch it and say “here’s proof of what she is saying or doing.”
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Writing Your Own Prescription: How To Figure Out Your Feelings With Writing
Okay, so you have a pen and paper and some feelings. Now what?
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Writing Dirty: You, Too, Can Write About Sex
No matter what your reasons are, or where your piece winds up, we think it’d be cool if you got to write about sex with us.
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Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with Melissa Gira Grant about Cats, Sex Work, and Writing
“Maybe years of blogging ruined me, or maybe they created a productive tension.”
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California: Selected Poems of a Dream
In case you’re just dreaming.
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Half Of 2013’s National Magazine Award Finalists Are Women, For Real, So Let’s Meet Them
Last year the NMA nominated zero ladies in its prime categories but this year we snagged half the noms! Why? Plus, I’ve got an epic rundown on everything you need to know about every ladyjourno finalist.
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How Sick Is “Sick Lit”?
“We were thirteen years old, and these stories confirmed our suspicions that the world was a cruel, sad place, riddled with surprise tragedies and untimely deaths.”
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Make Sweet Poetry With Us
First we’ll create poems from nothing and then we’ll write poetry out loud.
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I Also Love Vintage Books Your Kid Loves
Riese’s team pick: San Antonio writer Burgin Street is obsessed with vintage childrens books and consequently, I’m obsessed with her blog.
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Mini Interview: Andrea Askowitz and “My Miserable, Lonely, Lesbian Pregnancy”
“Is it a queer memoir and/or a pregnancy memoir? Neither.”
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The Days Of Yore: Writers and Artists Before “Making It”
“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.”
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Emma and Nicola Wrote A Novel About Britney Spears: The Autostraddle Interview
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries”) re-imagine the story of how Britney Spears ended up under her father’s permanent legal control in their new novel.
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Marcel the Shell Has Shoes On, Also New Children’s Book
“Well, you know what they say: Lint is a shell’s best friend.”
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You Probably Want to Read Some Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Summer is almost over! Try to forget about that by reading some lesbian pulp fiction.
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J.D. Salinger, 91, Dies: All Eyes On the Literary Recluse Who Despised Our Eyes
J.D. Salinger, author of “Catcher in the Rye” and legendary recluse, dies of natural causes at the age of 91. Will death kill his well-cultivated privacy? How do we honor our literary idols using the same media machine employed to vaporize/idolize our dead celebrities & rock stars? Will we get to read all his unpublished books now? Why do some people feel entitled to that, or anything, from anyone who has passed away, ever?