Results for: representation
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Lez Liberty Lit #95: My Puppy Ate My To-Read Pile
Weird books, subscription libraries, how to learn to like poetry, books and food and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #90: 1,000 Books
1,000 books about black girls, a new Didion thinkpiece, earning a living wage when writing, literary binge reading and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #80: Stories Are What You Make Them
The Hitchhiker’s Guide and loving problematic things; The Argonauts and embracing but not constraining queerness; writing about race and representation; queer books with bi characters 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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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 #84: A Great Library Is Freedom
Books that Patti Smith mentions in her memoir, tips for NaNoWriMo, how 21 indie presses got their starts and other things about queer books!
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Fool’s Journey: “She Is Sitting in the Night” is the Queer Tarot Book You’ve Been Waiting For
It’s a queer tarot guidebook and a celebration of an 80s feminist tarot deck rolled into one; a book of beautiful and radical tarot card meanings, and a conversation across generations of feminism and LGBTQ politics.
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Lez Liberty Lit #67: Sick Day Reading
Lambda finalists, queer representation in comics, Emily Books getting more awesome and more.
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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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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 #65: Books In Boxes
New Toni Morrison, make a tiny zine, literary podcasts, writing difference and more.
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Rebel Girls: 9 Badass Black Feminists and Their Books That Shook the World
These women changed feminism forever with their scholarship. Let’s vow to never forget their names.
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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 #50: Summer Reading Lists
The Miseducation of Cameron Post’s removal from a summer reading list, literary books coming out this fall, trigger warnings, marginalizing women’s writing and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #29: Against Stupidity, Apathy, And Zombification
This week in queer lit: women winning prizes, discussions about diversity, library-related crises, an excerpt from Sarah Schulman’s “After Dolores” and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #19: Strong Coffee, Stronger Bourbon
Queer Covers, Cristy C. Road, learning to be a lesbian writer in a feminist bookstore, Michelle Tea on trans* and bisexual representation and so much more!
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Lez Liberty Lit #26: Summertime, and The Reading is Easy
The books of Orange is the New Black, diversity in kids’ books, heroic librarians, subtle ways of convincing those around you to read your favorite childhood novels and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #22: Reading As Performing
Where to find queer books to read, starting books but not finishing them, perceived gender, 1984 and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #17: You Hate The Word “Moist” For A Reason
Best literary insults, stalking Eileen Myles, queer readings of Harriet the Spy and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #12: I Owe Everything To Being Queer
This week in literature: reading writers you hate, choosing your own adventure, evolving libraries, an interview with Eileen Myles, Gertrude Stein and more.