Results for: queer parenting
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Tess Sharpe’s New Queer YA Novel Will Have You Chanting “Kiss, Kiss, Kiss!”
As someone who grew up in a rural place, I really appreciated how authentically rural this novel felt.
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EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life
In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.
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Slow Takes: “Stone Fruit” and Choosing Given Family
I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.
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“The Third Daughter” Is Sapphic Slow-Burn Fantasy and Feminist Rage
What turned it into an auto-buy was the Post-It note attached to the shelf. A flimsy lime-green placeholder for one of the voicey, detailed recommendation cards that are always tucked around the shop, with three words scrawled on it: “magical furious lesbians.”
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.
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“All This Could Be Different” Review: A Novel So Good I Dreaded Finishing It
Whether she’s writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ sentences seduce and swathe.
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The Best Queer Books Featuring Mommy Issues
Gays really are out here having complicated relationships with our mothers and then writing whole books about it.
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Ciara Smyth’s Queer YA Books Remind Me of Being a Teenager
The Falling In Love Montage (2020) and Not My Problem (2021) are as hilarious as they are moving.
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Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo
Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point University’s luxury dorms for America, a teen’s fatal plunge into the London underworld and more longreads for you.
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Author Melanie Bell on her YA Novel “Chasing Harmony” and the Messy Process of Growing Up Queer
“The people I met who were identified as musical prodigies had long journeys involving conflict between their abilities and personal needs and finding who they were beyond the weight of expectations. When I was younger, successes and failures felt huge, and this is the case for Anna too.”
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‘Housemates’ Is a Remarkable Novel, Intimate, Expansive, and Full of Sight
It’s about seeing through images and seeing through words. It’s also a love story, about falling for the way another person sees the world, the magic of realizing someone sees in a way that is different than you yet insistently compatible.
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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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A Sweet Sixteen Becomes a Coming Out Party in Queer YA Novel “Friday I’m in Love”
The scene where Mahalia — the Black queer teen at the center of Camryn Garrett’s new novel — comes out to her mom is painful but honest.
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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s “The Death of Vivek Oji” Delves Into What Is Born in Death
Emezi’s ability to immerse the reader into multiple characters’ realities and tell a story that isn’t just one narrative but infinite is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, even as Emezi creates something entirely new in Vivek.
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Fatimah Asghar’s New Novel Is a Salve for My Reality of Grief
Nothing lasts, though — not our parents, not our homes, not our relationships, not us.
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Kristen Arnett on “With Teeth,” Lesbian Motherhood, and Sagittarius Chaos
“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”
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“Men I Trust” Is a Beautiful Graphic Novel About Loneliness, Connection, and Capitalism
Tommi Parrish’s stunning new graphic novel Men I Trust is about two lonely women. It appears to be the story of their connection, but as it unravels it becomes darker, deeper, and, ultimately, in its own way, more hopeful.
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“A Day of Fallen Night” Is the Most Satisfying Queer and Trans Fantasy Book I’ve Ever Read
The prequel to The Priory of the Orange Tree confirms that Samantha Shannon’s Roots of Chaos series is to queer nerds what The Lord of the Rings is to straight nerds.
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20 Queer and Feminist Banned Books (And How To Get Them to Kids Who Need Them)
It’s Banned Books week. We can do our part and get reading.
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Anna Dorn Writes Maximalist, Campy Queer Fiction Inspired by Lesbian Pulp
“I have problematic fantasies about being closeted in the 50s and just like having ‘a friend.'”