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What to Read When You’re Queer and Expecting: 6 Parenting Books That Smash The Patriarchy
Unfortunately, most parenting books weren’t written with queer moms, trans dads, non-binary parents and gestational carriers, and families that look like ours in mind.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Going South
Finding queer southern lit, how the queer writers of the ’60s and ’70s shape Patrisse Cullors’s political work, the best of 2018 book lists and more.
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30 New Books of Queer and Feminist Interest to Get Excited About This Fall
Whether your thing is queer girl YA inspired by Greek mythology, groundbreaking poetry collections, challenging and mind-expanding critical nonfiction on art, power, illness or design, or weird and dynamic short fiction, this fall brings you some new titles you won’t be able to stop thinking about.Â
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Things I Read That I Love #274: Sheila Was Such a Fucking Bitch It Was Awesome
Topics include The Good Place, The English Patient, child abuse, Dr. Death (again, sorry!), working at Disneyland, “radical sex,” ’90s webzines and so much more!
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80 of the Best Queer, Lesbian and Bisexual Books of the Decade
It sure has been a decade! Mainstream publishing has become much more open to queer stories, especially perhaps in YA, and the drive and determination of indie and queer publishing projects has meant that less saleable work that is sometimes more resonant to our lives has been able to make it to our shelves. Here are some of the brightest highlights!
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Things I Read That I Love #262: Blue Is In Fashion This Year
Topics include weight loss surgery, murder, writer’s block, algorithms for style, David Foster Wallace, The Grenfell Tower fire, how bad Troy sucks in “Reality Bites,” deaf culture and so much more!
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“They Want Trans Shit to Be a PSA”: A Trans Woman Writers’ Roundtable
“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”
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50 of the Best Feminist Books of 2018
Here are 50 of the best books from this year that are by and about women, feminism or gender and related intersectional issues. There seem to be strong recurring themes of dystopia, anger, and navigating violent structures of power. What a coincidence!Â
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68 LGBT YA Books to Get Excited for in 2019
Can you even believe this list has 68 (!!) upcoming 2019 queer YA books? WOW. No matter what kind of LGBT YA you’re into, there is something on this list for you.
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Juno Roche’s Queer Sex Is an Argument for Erotic Empowerment
Queer Sex, a collection of interviews with trans and non-binary folks on sex, love and intimacy, is a map to erotic empowerment. In this excerpt, author Juno Roche explores her fears, hopes and erotic potential.
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Things I Read That I Love #260: “Fuck” Can Hammer Home A Feeling
Topics include Tiffany Haddish, Lena Waithe, swear words in poetry, pain patients suffering due to crackdowns against opioid addicts, Disney/MGM Studios Backlot Tour, Cambridge Analytica, Hollywood child molesters, why the subway is late and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #256: Wearing Uniqlo Longjohns As Outside People Clothes
Topics include Dawson’s Creek, The Awl, Soulcycle, Negroni Season, Justin Timberlake in the woods, health care, “Rude,” The New York Times’ Style Section, RuPaul’s Drag Race and so much more!
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8 Books Featuring Queer Parents To Read This Summer
The feel-good books centering queer parents you should read right now.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Kinda Gay, Or Really Gay?
Grammar as privilege, cardboard presses, ranking fictional drugs, disability in sci-fi and fantasy and more.
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Things I Read That I Love #218: Like Flirting With A Sad Encyclopedia.
Topics include Supreme streetwear, covering the Donald Trump campaign, yearning to leave the suburbs, Monica Lewinsky, David Foster Wallace, exotic dancing and more!
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Baby-Sitters Club Creator Ann M. Martin is Queer, How Did I Not Know This
She also identifies as “a Mary Ann.”
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Things I Read That I Love #202: My Body Was The Grand Canyon, Vast and Hollowed Out
Topics include oxycontin addiction, RENT, sporting goods stores, the science of love, Arby’s, Jodie Foster, the history of gender-segregated public bathrooms and more!
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215 Of The Best Longreads Of 2015 — All Written By Women
This should keep your brain busy for quite some time.
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Lez Liberty Lit #76: Sideways Stories
Zines and sci-fi by people of color, queer magical realism, everything’s an essay, rewriting the diary and more.
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Things I Read That I Love #168: Profound Shame And Fantastic Imagination
Topics include this business of art, tupperware, David Carr, The New York Times, Miranda July, for-profit foster care, arson science and moar!