Results for: league of their own
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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 #241: She Didn’t At All Like Being Charmed Out Of A Rageful State
Topics include the heroin epidemic in West Virginia, really expensive weddings, eczema, sexual abuse in a Baptist mission, Panda Express, teaching while black, A League of Their Own, the murders of TWOC in Detroit and so much more.
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10 Favorite Books by Bisexual Women to Read For Bisexual Awareness Week
Spanning genre from fiction to essays to memoir, these books are vibrant, boundary-breaking, and as intriguing as they are affirming. I strongly recommend curling up with one of these in your favorite café to celebrate Bisexual Visiblility Day today and all this week — settle in for some miso soup (what Ruby, the heroine of Eating Chinese Food Naked, drinks as comfort food) with maybe some biryani and chai for the second course (from Corona, by Bushra Rehman) and read some of these literary works.
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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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We Need to Talk About Angela Calomiris, Lesbian FBI Informant
“It was one of those rare moments in American history when there was something worse than being a lesbian, and that was being a Communist.”
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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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Things I Read That I Love #175: The Return Of Witch-Hunting
Topics include Oscar the Grouch, Monster-in-Law, Uber, Key & Peele, the cruise industry, nail salons and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #119: I Wouldn’t Say It’s Making Me Happy, Per Se
Topics include Mobile Home U, Harriet the Spy, sanitary pads, tigers, Sherlock, fast fashion, Silicon Valley, the guy who made Flappy Bird and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #114: The Marketability of Hot Blonde Twins
Topics include the TSA, college tours, sex in marriages, slavery, Ryan Leaf, Sweet Valley High, life after prison and so much more!
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Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2013
Read these books.
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Things I Read That I Love #103: I Had No Idea What Was True
Topics include Katrina, Catching Fire, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Silicon Valley, free market propaganda, animals in Hollywood, abortion, the LA riots and more!
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140 Longform Pieces You Can Read And Love
140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
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In Which His Death Helped Me Finally Get To Know Gore Vidal
The literary badass and sexual liberation babe passed away last week at 88, and that was how I discovered him.
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Yet Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels
Love stories featuring lesbian Secret Service agents, doctors, super spies, life coaches, personal trainers and women of many other professions.
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Things I Read That I Love #12
Topics include Hollister, the U.S. prison system, an amusement park about Charles Dickens, Mitt Romney and AshleyMadison.com!
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8 Queerish Short Story Books
So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!
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Top Ten Fantasy Novels That Have Gay People In Them
This is a list of YA fantasy novels that fall somewhere between tangentially gay and really, really gay. They all fall under “read this immediately.”