Results for: queer parenting
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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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Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years, Jahren has earned accolades for her work. Here, she shares her passion.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “Dirty River”
“This memoir will appeal to those seeking a gritty, glorious, multi-layered story of homecoming and self-healing.”
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“Untold Stories” Help Us Transform the Culture of Stigma Around Reproduction
Untold Stories directly disrupts the ongoing and frustrating conversation around abortion and reproductive health as a political wedge issue. It drives home the point, without proselytizing, that people’s complex reproductive lives should be at the center of conversations about reproductive health and rights.
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The Speakeasy Book Club #2: Come Talk About “Borderlands/La Frontera” With Us
“I didn’t want the only thing I had ever known to be taken away from me. So I ignored my desires in order not to lose everything I loved.”
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Read A F*cking Book: Sometimes Being Bad Is Good In “Southern Sin”
“Set in the land of deep-fried Christian morality, a natural tension is created in each one of the anthology’s 23 stories, making for a mostly sexy, sometimes terrifying, but always exceptionally-crafted read.”
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We Are Family: S. Bear Bergman’s “Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter”
Maybe my mom was onto something. Maybe family really is everything, so long as you build it yourself.
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Read A F*cking Book: Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf
Basically, this book is one big giant sex-ed zine, but it’s a book.
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On “Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels”
“So much second-guessing involved every decision that I made that I became a paradox in a way, a combination of bravado and insecurity.”
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The Bearable Heaviness of Portia DeRossi’s “Unbearable Lightness”
“As I walked across the mall wondering if the way I walked made me look obviously lesbian, my mind switched to thinking about how much weight I’d have to lose to fit comfortably into those Capri pants.”