Results for: meet up
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Lez Liberty Lit: Collecting Queer History
Handwriting doesn’t matter, punk and magic in art, preserving lesbian pulp fiction, breaking up with a bad book and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Dog-Eared Days of Summer
Mental health zines, libraries’ political and social power, what counts as a diverse book and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #88: Why Do You Write Like You’re Running Out Of Time?
Fat-positive queer books, Roxane Gay on dissonance, weeding out your shelves, books as best friends and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #78: Paper Flowers
How the representation of queerness is changing in African writing; new Shirley Jackson and Dr. Seuss; teen magazines; sexism in publishing; and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #87: Drowning In Best-Ofs
Queer holiday depression, a trans princess book, reading Lolita under the patriarchy, Eileen Myles on Transparent, books lists and more.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “Fledgling” and Queer Black Vampire Mythology
If you’re interested in seeing the complexities of polyamorous relationships interpreted through the lens of speculative fiction, or in reading a quietly queer sci-fi great’s exploration of sexual fluidity, Fledgling will be up your alley.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Jennica Harper’s “What It Feels Like for a Girl”
What It Feels Like for a Girl centers on two 13-year-olds who meet in gym class: the narrator, addressed in a piercing second person that has the effect of melding our stories with hers, and precocious Angel, who guides her through a labyrinth of sexual exploration via magazines and videos.
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Lez Liberty Lit #79: Books on Books on Books
Discussing race in a culture hostile to discussing race, transnational trans characters, a book you can drink and more.
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Drawn to Comics: Kate Beaton Tells Us What Would Happen if Lois Lane Met Wonder Woman
Kate Beaton talks to Autostraddle about why Ida Wells is her hero, the fascinating Filles de Roi, and obviously Wonder Woman.
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Lez Liberty Lit #77: Let’s Talk About Harper Lee
Recent books featuring queer people of color, travelling and reading, reading and your brain, your favorite curse word and more. Plus coverage of the Harper Lee coverage.
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Lez Liberty Lit #72: Self-(De)Construction
Structuring and restructuring the self through notebooks, the city with the most bookstores per capita, poetry collections that are like documentaries and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #62: Piles and Piles of Pages
Marginalia, feminist shelfies, expanding the queer canon, 2014 in queer diversity in YA and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #63: New Year, New Reading Pile
An interview with Daisy Hernández, free ebooks and audiobooks, the end of “sweet, biddable girls” in fairy tales and more.
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Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
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Lez Liberty Lit #38: My Handwriting Is Worse Than Yours
Maps, lesbian steampunk recommendations, today’s reason you’ll want to propose to Mallory Ortberg, reading women writers and more.
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Liberty Lit #37: Nothing Is Sexier Than Grammar
Alice Walker and Tracy Chapman dated and nothing else even matters. Also unlikeable protagonists, books to treat depression, books to treat your lesbian break-up and more.
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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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Autostraddle Book Club #7: We’re Reading “Blue Is The Warmest Color”
And! Because I’m the one doing the book club, I have a bit of an added element. There is a drink recipe in here, folks!
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Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions About Dogs and Books with Ali Liebgott
This edition is FULL OF TREASURES. Ali and I read two books and asked ten(ish) questions to poet, writer, and die-hard dyke Ali Liebegott for you. Also, many dog photos!
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Lez Liberty Lit #27: Hamlet Dies
This week in lit: bookshelfies, queer superhero power couples, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, a pop-culture feminist syllabus and more.