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LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Carmen November 13, 2012 9 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: Ivan E. Coyote’s “One in Every Crowd”

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.

Hansen November 12, 2012 12 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Darrin Hagen’s “The Edmonton Queen”

“If anything, The Edmonton Queen reads as a triumphant fuck you in the face of death and losing people you love before their time.”

Malaika October 22, 2012 15 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews Sex

20 Things You Can Take Away from “The S and M Feminist” Whether You’re Into S and M or Not

“Sex education should tell people how to explore what they want, not just that they should explore.”

A.E. Osworth October 14, 2012 55 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Autostraddle Book Club #6: We’re Reading “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”

“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.”

Riese October 7, 2012 62 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Alex Leslie’s “People Who Disappear”

Leslie’s stories speak to my top interests in life: gay women, the environment, and Canada.

Malaika October 3, 2012 11 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Plentitude Magazine’s Inaugural Issue: The Autostraddle Review

Maybe we all share the same eyes or the same hearts. Maybe we just share the same vocabulary.

Carmen September 25, 2012 5 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Listling: Reasons You Should Read Santa Olivia Immediately

There are lots of reasons to read Santa Olivia. Even if you weren’t peer pressured into doing it for A Camp.

Ryan Yates September 13, 2012 10 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Excerpt From Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin Explores Queer Themes, Is Amazing

Gabrielle’s Team Pick: “The second you see each other, you start to fight. Would you call that love or vengeance?”

Gabrielle Korn September 6, 2012 10 Comments
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Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Shani Mootoo’s “Cereus Blooms at Night”

“We sat reading on the rooftop for hours, only stopping when the sound of a train drowned out our voices.”

Malaika August 16, 2012 12 Comments
Issues LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: “Stranger On Lesbos” Reminds Us How Far We’ve Come and What Hasn’t Changed

“I am glad to be here with you in 2012. But I am glad someone was there in 1950.”

Carmen July 31, 2012 4 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Book: “No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics”

A definitive collection of queer comics through the past four decades.

Hansen July 25, 2012 7 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s “Fall On Your Knees”

What if the nerdy bookstore owner from “Better Than Chocolate” wrote a book of her own? Oh, wait, she DID!

Malaika July 19, 2012 39 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: ‘Something Spectacular’

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.

Jess July 16, 2012 8 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Book: “Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity”

On makeup: “this ritualized mask-making / not to hide behind / but to put forth”

Mila July 13, 2012 33 Comments
Issues LGBT Book Reviews

Read a F*cking Book: “Odd Girls & Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in 20th-Century America”

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!

Riese June 11, 2012 18 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: Alison Bechdel’s “Are You My Mother?”

“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?”

Rachel May 28, 2012 20 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: “Beyond Binary” Is Genderqueering Speculative Fiction

This book is the most awesome book I have read in a really long time and you should read it too. Immediately.

Ryan Yates April 25, 2012 16 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Eileen Myles Still Has It: The Autostraddle Review of “Snowflake / different streets”

“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.”

Carmen March 13, 2012 11 Comments
Issues LGBT Book Reviews

Art Attack! Read A F*cking Book: ‘The Last Nude’

Ellis Avery’s ‘The Last Nude’ is basically girl-on-girl fictional art history. You’re interested in it.

Amanda Catharine February 27, 2012 2 Comments
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