Results for: be the change
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Jenn Shapland’s “Thin Skin” Will Make You Believe Another Life Is Possible
Shapland never purports to have all of the answers here, and why would she?
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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “The Future Is Disabled” Should Be Required Reading
After reading The Future is Disabled, I feel more hopeful, and I think you will, too.
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This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds
If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.
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New “Fire Island” Book Weaves Personal, Historical Narrative To Highlight Power of Community Solidarity
More a place-based memoir than a straightforward history, “Fire Island” provides unique insight on the history, present, and future of this almost mythical place.
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‘Cactus Country’ Moves Beyond the Expected Borders of the Traditional Transition Memoir
Our stories don’t have to end where they start if we stay open to the potential around us.
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Queer Nightlife Doesn’t Need Permanent Spaces To Thrive
In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Ghaziani examines how the closing of gay bars over the last 20+ years has helped bring about a new kind of queer nightlife, one that is less focused on being a permanent fixture in one location and more focused on mobility, inclusion, and ephemerality.
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“A Day of Fallen Night” Is the Most Satisfying Queer and Trans Fantasy Book I’ve Ever Read
The prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree confirms that Samantha Shannon’s Roots of Chaos series is to queer nerds what The Lord of the Rings is to straight nerds.
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Sexy, Ambitious Novel “Any Other City” Explores Transition and Transformation
I don’t remember ever reading such sexy queer sex.
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“Judas Goat” by Gabrielle Bates Made Me Start Writing Again
Once I started Judas Goat, it was nearly impossible to put down.
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Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents
For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.
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Documenting and Honoring Queer History Requires Imagination
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories, a new book by cultural historian Diarmuid Hester, shows us what is possible when we consider space in this way.
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I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”
Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.
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“The Romance Recipe” Is the Steamy Beach Read You Need
Thankfully, Ruby Barrett doesn’t make us wait long for the simmering lust to boil into something more.
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“Working It” Says the Quiet Parts Out Loud About Sex Work
Before I was a sex worker, I was a proud sex worker ally.
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Sarah Viren’s Memoir Is A Compelling Exploration of the Nature of Truth
When we live in a society where truth matters so little, what are we supposed to do with it once we have it?
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Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature
The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.
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In Their Debut Romance, Akwaeke Emezi Writes a Kind of Love I Recognize
The friendship central to You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is as important as the romance.
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In “Pageboy,” Elliot Page Gets Vulnerable About Gender Dysphoria, Trans Joy, and Much More
Like a lot of millennials my age, I grew up watching Elliot Page’s films and his ascent to stardom
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Moby Dyke Is a Fresh Take on the Old Conversation About Disappearing Lesbian Bars
I didn’t go to my first lesbian bar until I was in my early twenties.
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“Finding the Fool” Asserts Tarot Is for Everybody
Reading this book was compelling, fluid, and joyous.