Results for: representation
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Rainbow Reading: It’s a Good Time To Be a Sports Gay
Let’s make like glow sticks and get cracking — it’s time to catch up on LGBTQ+ book news!
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Eight Romance Novels Featuring Trans Women, by Trans Authors
We’ve got fantasy romance, contemporary romance, YA science fiction comic romance, historical romance, and more!
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The Need for Trans Girl Trash
If media that’s traditionally targeted at women, whether they are queer or not, isn’t making a space for the girls like me, then where exactly are we expected to look for entertainment that keeps us in mind?
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Rainbow Reading: Even the Crows Are Queer in This Upcoming Speculative Novella
Catch up on the latest LGBTQ+ literature news in Rainbow Reading.
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Rules of Desire in ‘Y Tu Mamá También’
Y Tu Mamá También relies on ambiguity: Partly, I presume, so that it could reach audiences who might not have watched the film had it been more explicitly gay. I know young me wouldn’t have dared to.
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Malinda Lo on Her Historic National Book Award Win and Lesbian Literature’s History and Future
Malinda Lo talks about writing queerness in different genres, butch/femme dynamics in literature, and the gay Macy’s of the 1960s that didn’t make it into her book.
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A Queer Syllabus for Barbiecore
Overlapping topics we’re going to discuss include the history of glitter, queer meanings of femme and femme theory, Barbie Capitalism, why gays love Magic Earring Ken, pink vs pynk, and so much more!
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Rainbow Reading: This Upcoming Book Is a Queer Retelling of Robin Hood About DYKES ON BIKES
It sounds like Robin Hood meets Fast and the Furious and very GAY.
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49 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Summer 2022
Queer science fiction, fantasy sequels, horror YA, experimental books, short stories, a memoir on (in)fertility, and so much more are heading your way this summer.
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Style Thief: How To Dress Like Taissa From “Yellowjackets”
Rock teen Taissa energy by day and adult Taissa energy by night.
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Morgan Thomas On Weaving Genderqueer History Into Their Debut Short Fiction Collection “Manywhere”
“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort of ‘mythos’ of the South. So I wanted to fill in that gap.”
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 100: January 2023
“what if autostraddle just became a mariah carey fansite”
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A Memoir Isn’t a Self-Help Book
Author Jeanna Kadlec talks about her new memoir Heretic, the loss of leaving a life, gay Bible stories, and more.
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 93: June 2022
“i just think patty melt IS a gender tbh”
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Chris Belcher Talked With the A+ Book Club About Academia, Memory and More!
“LOL yeah, I lusted for those spencers sex toys so bad”
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AS Insider #109 April ’24: All the ‘Rejected’ April Fool’s Day Headlines
“Straight Couples Who Aren’t Fucking Are Appropriating Lesbian Bed Death Culture”
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Author Lydia Conklin on Being Queer in the 90s and Writing Characters in Transitional Moments
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 98: November 2022
“no one gives you a free personal pan pizza when you do something you really, really don’t want to do! we live in a crumbling society”
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69 Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2024
What’s on the horizon for queer books in March, April, and May? New work from Judith Butler, K-Ming Chang, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and so much more.
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 95: August 2022
(Bear training is also secretly for people who want to get wifed.)