Results for: read a f*cking book
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Myriam Gurba’s Floating World in “Mean”
Gurba’s writing feels devastating and holy and hilarious all at once, like a dead sea scroll that is as fun to read as an old issue of Playboy.
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Read a F*cking Book: “The Lillian Trilogy”
Mary Meriam doesn’t flinch at female eroticism, at emotional turmoil, at social upheaval, at the truth of human cruelty. She also doesn’t flinch at rhyme, rhythm, formal constraint, or ancient forms of poetry and language.
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Read a F*cking Book: “The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!)” Is Everything You Care About
Don’t label me — I’m
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Read A F*cking Book: “The Mystics of Mile End”
In Sigal Samuel’s The Mystics of Mile End, three members of the Meyer family encounter Jewish mysticism, and are drawn apart in their very different quests for the divine.
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Read a F*cking Book: “(RE)Sisters” Knows That to Be Queer Is to Be Powerful
Through rule-breaking, more than one unauthorized hot air balloon flight, and a lot of other creative and brave attempts at escape, (RE)Sisters reveals truths about what we know, but may not always be able to say: that we are itching to break free of the implicit and explicit confines the white supremacist, patriarchal, heterosexist, cissexist, ableist, imperialist world puts on us.
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Read a F*cking Book: Dryland, by Sara Jaffe
“Dryland,” by Sara Jaffe, is a quiet coming of age tale clad in flannel on the outside; on the inside, it’s draped in gorgeous prose.
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How to Live in Paris, Get Kissed a Lot, Write a Memoir About It
“By the end of the seventies, women were in fashion: every Parisian woman, gay or straight, fell in love with women as if it were the most natural thing in the world.”
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Read A F*cking Book Club: We’re All Reading “Juliet Takes A Breath”
You can totally read Gabby Rivera’s debut novel “Juliet Takes A Breath” right now! Join us for another fantastic Autostraddle Book Club.
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KOKUMO’s Galactic Bitch-Slap to the Literary Establishment
KOKUMO blasts through the bullshit rhetoric and tokenism that too-often engulf queer and trans communities in order to expose the raw struggle to survive at their heart.
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Now Is A Good Time To Get Into Patricia Lockwood
Priestdaddy, the poet’s new coming-of-age memoir, has a lot of twists and a lot of power.
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Read a F*cking Book: You Simply Must Get Your Hands on “I Must Be Living Twice”
“I Must Be Living Twice” is a strong place to first get acquainted with every aspect of Eileen Myles’ work, but it’s also a deeper look into her story for those of us who have been attempting to follow it all along.
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For Runaways, Survivors and Dreamers: “Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars”
Runaways, witches, and girl gangs: a review and conversation with Kai Cheng Thom on her new book, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.
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Read a F*cking Book: Eileen Myles’ “Chelsea Girls” is Back, Better Than Ever
It’s the kind of book that takes hold of you. Chelsea Girls is like sitting in someone else’s heart and mind as they go back through an entire lifetime of becoming who they are in that moment, and those are the kinds of moments you can’t just walk into and out of at random.
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Read A F*cking Book: Robin Talley’s What We Left Behind
Despite its shortcomings when it comes to theory, the story does the important work of allowing the characters to ask questions and struggle with their identities.
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In “Body Horror,” Anne Elizabeth Moore Examines How Consumer Feminism Is Failing Us — and Is Itself Failing
“So, are menstrual bags good, or are they bad? Do they empower women, or further constrict them? It becomes obvious that this is not a zero-sum game, and Moore illuminates the coexistence of multiple conflicting truths.”
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When Death Makes You Kind: Beyond Survival In Gwen Benaway’s “Passage”
“In the words of Notting Hill, “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” Or more realistically, I’m just a girl, standing in front of KFC, praying that it’s open.”
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Roxane Gay’s “Difficult Women”: The Necessary Ugliness in Getting There
Gay is far more honest than most about the weird ways we actually solve for love. The necessary ugliness in getting there.
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Read A F*cking Book: The Right Side Of History
These 30 essays provide important context and understanding of individuals, movements and moments that formed the greater whole of a long fight for queer liberation, one that is far from over but which has made incredible strides in just a few decades.
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Anna-Marie McLemore’s “When the Moon Was Ours” Is a Testament to QPOC Life and Love
“When the Moon Was Ours not only touches on qpoc life and gender roles and social constructs, but it beautifully and brutally explores what it means to be a queer teen of color in a world constantly rejecting and defining who you should be.”
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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza’s “There Should Be Flowers” Is A Piercing Look At The Physicality Of Trans Women’s Lives
There Should Be Flowers is a healing map, a compass that shows us back to the world after having left it for too long – that allows us to live inside the pain and love ourselves anyway.