Results for: book
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This New Book on Nurturance Culture Is Needed, but Is It Too Normative?
While “Turn This World Inside Out” makes plain the problems with shaming folks into a more liberated world free of gendered violence, it does so in limited ways that made me as a reader hungry for 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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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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“Burning Butch” Is the Trans Butch Memoir We’ve Always Needed
We’ve always needed books like Burning Butch out in the world reminding us that it’s possible to fight back, to overcome, and to survive despite all odds.
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“Lesbian Love Story” Has Something To Teach Us About Ourselves
It’s important for us to gather all of the stories of the people who came before us in order to help fuel our fight against the people who want to push us out of existence.
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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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Tegan and Sara’s “Junior High” Brings Their Origin Story to a Graphic Novel
Queer youth need to see a hero’s journey from queer icons who’ve lived it! And they need to be able to relate to it, not to write it off as ancient history.
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In Challenging, Complex Essays, “Unsafe Words” Queers the #MeToo Movement
Multiple of these essays ask how we can make queer spaces safer, especially for our most vulnerable community members, while also not becoming our own police.
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Queer Naija Lit: “The Lives of Great Men” Interrogates the Measures of Masculinity and Greatness
My internal identity journey as a black genderfluid person involves engaging with my relationship to masculinity.
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“A Darker Wilderness” Carves a Space for Blackness in Nature
I held these words close as I walked through my neighborhood in a town named after perhaps the most famous colonizer in the Americas.
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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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“Fieldwork” Review: A Lush, Chewy Memoir Full of Mushrooms
Michelin-star chef Iliana Regan takes you back to her family’s farmhouse.
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“The Family Outing” Is a Vivid Memoir of Neglect, Secrets, and the Power of Family
Over the course of five years, Jessi Hempel came out as a lesbian; her dad then came out as gay, her sister as bisexual, and her brother as trans.
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“It Came From the Closet” Gave Me New Appreciation for the Horror Genre
Because we’re so frequently othered, many LGBTQ+ people find ourselves in horror film monsters.
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The Essays in “Wanting” Show the Power of Vulnerability
Although I have many of them at any given time, I don’t usually speak my desires out loud.
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Lamya H’s Debut Memoir Is a Testament to the Powers of Faith and Hope
We live in a society so oppressive to those of us who dare to imagine better that we have very little incentive to keep imagining.
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In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History
What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active history of a place that most people are unfamiliar with.
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Juniper Fitzgerald’s Queer Memoir-in-Fragments Examines Her Identities as a Sex Worker and Mother
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.
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Putsata Reang’s New Memoir Fills In the Gaps of Lost Family History
Putsata Reang’s memoir “Ma and Me” grapples with what it means to carry intergenerational trauma not only as an Asian American, immigrant, and refugee but also as a queer person.
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“Body Language” Anthology Offers Invitation To Reckon With Our Messy Bits
Body Language — a new anthology from Catapult — is one of the best essay collections I’ve read in a long time.