Read A F*cking Book: Rae Spoon’s “First Spring Grass Fire”
This book will remind anyone who kept going how bittersweet it was to finally get there and serve as proof to the rest of us that it’s never too late to start packing.
This book will remind anyone who kept going how bittersweet it was to finally get there and serve as proof to the rest of us that it’s never too late to start packing.
Ivan E. Coyote’s new book, “One in Every Crowd” is a short story compilation for LGBTQ youth, outsiders of all sorts or anyone who has a soul.
“If anything, The Edmonton Queen reads as a triumphant fuck you in the face of death and losing people you love before their time.”
“Sex education should tell people how to explore what they want, not just that they should explore.”
“Girls kissing girls in barns, in twisty slides on playgrounds, in abandoned hospitals. Miles City, Montana. The 1990s. Swimming. Summer. Cowgirls. Dinosaur discovering. Ferris Wheels. Conversion therapy. Taco Johns.”
Leslie’s stories speak to my top interests in life: gay women, the environment, and Canada.
Maybe we all share the same eyes or the same hearts. Maybe we just share the same vocabulary.
There are lots of reasons to read Santa Olivia. Even if you weren’t peer pressured into doing it for A Camp.
Gabrielle’s Team Pick: “The second you see each other, you start to fight. Would you call that love or vengeance?”
“We sat reading on the rooftop for hours, only stopping when the sound of a train drowned out our voices.”
“I am glad to be here with you in 2012. But I am glad someone was there in 1950.”
A definitive collection of queer comics through the past four decades.
What if the nerdy bookstore owner from “Better Than Chocolate” wrote a book of her own? Oh, wait, she DID!
Greta Gleissner is a former Radio City Rockette whose memoir details her career as a professional dancer while struggling with bulimia and coming to terms with her sexuality.
On makeup: “this ritualized mask-making / not to hide behind / but to put forth”
If I had the power to declare this the official book of Herstory Month, I would. But I don’t have that power. Only you have that power. And you should read this book!
“Yeah, but don’t you think that… that if you write minutely and rigorously enough about your own life… you can, you know, transcend your particular self?”
This book is the most awesome book I have read in a really long time and you should read it too. Immediately.
“Suddenly it all became very clear to me what made the two books different, what brought them together, and what let them stand alone. And suddenly I was crying.”
Ellis Avery’s ‘The Last Nude’ is basically girl-on-girl fictional art history. You’re interested in it.