Results for: queer parenting
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Mara Wilson Knows Your First Crush Was Miss Honey: The Autostraddle Interview
“Being Queer is not about who you’re with, it’s about who you are.”
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Read A F*cking Book: M-E Girard’s Novel “Girl Mans Up” Powerfully Explores Minefields of Gender
“Girard’s writing is special in the way it speaks the language of our lived experience of moving through and within gender — inching, painfully slow, changeable, delightful, sexy, and made manifest in a thousand tiny ways, often between people and between words, unspoken.”
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Conversation with White Friends: Sara Quin, Amber Dawn, Rae Spoon & Dannielle Owens-Reid
Why is that people of colour have to bear the brunt of speaking out about racism while white people enjoy the privilege of remaining silent? What happens when the tables are turned?
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Walking and Talking, Kicking and Screaming: An Interview with Ruth Curry of Emily Books
“If I saw my writing career through the eyes of a mediocre white man I’d be, like, that dude would be fucking high on himself constantly.”
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Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years, Jahren has earned accolades for her work. Here, she shares her passion.
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“Don’t Date Anyone Who Treats You Like Shit”: An Interview with Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
This was supposed to be a book review of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha’s new memoir “Dirty River.” But it’s actually the story of how reading my friend and queer aunty Leah’s brown femme poetry saved me, made me a writer, and totally revolutionized my love and sex life.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “Dirty River”
“This memoir will appeal to those seeking a gritty, glorious, multi-layered story of homecoming and self-healing.”
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Read a F*cking Book: Dryland, by Sara Jaffe
“Dryland,” by Sara Jaffe, is a quiet coming of age tale clad in flannel on the outside; on the inside, it’s draped in gorgeous prose.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Deb Jannerson’s “Rabbit Rabbit”
In 26 slight pages, Rabbit Rabbit chronicles a personal unraveling, offering insightful treatment of the intricate connections between family and trauma.
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Read A F*cking Book Club: A Conversation With Gabby Rivera About “Juliet Takes A Breath”
We’re talking to Gabby Rivera about her debut novel “Juliet Takes a Breath”! We talk about subtleties in Latinx media representation, queer community, forgiveness and, of course, Lil’ Melvin.
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Were We Ever So Young: Revisiting “Empress of the World”
The names of the main characters, Nic and Battle, were gender neutral enough that I projected heterosexuality onto them, not yet knowing that gay YA lit was something even there to be looked for.
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Read A F*cking Book: Tanwi Nandini Islam’s “Bright Lines” Adds Color To LGBTQ Fiction
In a multigenerational, transcontinental tale, Bright Lines weaves together issues of gender and sexuality across cultures, migration, in/dependence, family secrets, conflict and tragedy, and well, botany.
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Read A F*cking Book Review: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is Living Her Truths in “Bodymap”
I told myself 2015 was the year of living my truths. I’m excited to have a guide in this book, and in Leah’s soulful mission to love and be loved — the rest of it be damned.
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Nerdy Staycation: Books You Can Totally Complete In A Weekend
Recommendations include books with queer content, reads you might have missed in high school, and recent award nominees!
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The Speakeasy Book Club #2: Come Talk About “Borderlands/La Frontera” With Us
“I didn’t want the only thing I had ever known to be taken away from me. So I ignored my desires in order not to lose everything I loved.”
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Read a F*cking Book: Late Summer Reading For Queers and Feminists
With new books by Roxane Gay, Hannah Hart, Sarah Waters, Radclyffe and more, there are lots of things to read and talk about.
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If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come
Listen up all queermos within striking distance of Philly! There’s a new bookstore coming your way — a very very queer bookstore with a café and art and all sorts of amazing things. And it’s being built from the ground up by community members Makella Craelius and Puppett.
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In Spring Love With These Three Books, Latinas in Media and Sister Spit
“Go see weirdos and women and everyone living on the fabulous fringes of society doing things, please. I’ll go with you. We can take all our boos, cats, and brujas on a communal date.”
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Read A F*cking Book: Sometimes Being Bad Is Good In “Southern Sin”
“Set in the land of deep-fried Christian morality, a natural tension is created in each one of the anthology’s 23 stories, making for a mostly sexy, sometimes terrifying, but always exceptionally-crafted read.”
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Ten Books For Queers And Feminists To Read This Spring
Ten important queer and feminist books coming this spring.