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On “Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels”
“So much second-guessing involved every decision that I made that I became a paradox in a way, a combination of bravado and insecurity.”
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My Misspent Youth
Riese’s Team Pick: “Like the naïve teenager who thought Mia Farrow’s apartment represented the urban version of middle-class digs, I continued to believe throughout college that it wasn’t fabulous wealth I was aspiring to, merely hipness.”
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Preview Of Laurie Weeks’ Zipper Mouth: Gay, Obsessed, Addicted
Laurie Weeks’ debut novel Zipper Mouth is coming out this October. You might have feelings about this.
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Autostraddle Read A F*cking Book Club #1: Eileen Myles’ Inferno
Did you read Inferno by Eileen Myles, our first-ever Autostraddle book club selection? I sure as hell hope so, BECAUSE IT’S TIME TO TALK ABOUT IT.
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Patti Smith’s “Just Kids” Belongs to Lovers, Artists and Outcasts
Patti Smith’s ‘Just Kids’ is an incredible story. I want to tell you about it.
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Riese’s Team Pick: Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation
“microaggressions are constant and continuing experiences of marginalized groups in our society; they assail the self-esteem of recipients, produce anger and frustration, deplete psychic energy…”
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Stronger Than Yesterday, “Venus With Biceps” Do It Nothin’ But Their Way
So, The “Trapeze Disrobing Act” is basically exactly what it sounds like.
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The Bearable Heaviness of Portia DeRossi’s “Unbearable Lightness”
“As I walked across the mall wondering if the way I walked made me look obviously lesbian, my mind switched to thinking about how much weight I’d have to lose to fit comfortably into those Capri pants.”