“The Marriage Plot” Thickens, Kinda
“Middlesex” author Jeffery Eugenides new novel “The Marriage Plot” is really good! But is it really aptly described as “a feminist re-telling”? Not so much.
Autostraddle Book Club #4: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“I am literally incapable of talking about a memoir about a queer woman grappling with a fraught, distant, infuriating relationship with her father without talking about myself.”
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.”
Book About Futuristic SciFi Lesbian Romance from 1906 Exists
Rachel’s Team Pick: “A Persian astronomer, Abou Shimshek, has found an “ice lens” which allowed him to discover a new planet on which live a race of telepathic, furred, electric-wheel-riding aliens.”
Be Still My Heart: Eileen Myles Tackles the Female Life; Black Lesbian Poets Hit the Road
I am convinced that something Eileen Myles loves is something I will love. That is, if I don’t love it already.
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.
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.”
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.
Autostraddle Read a F*cking Book Club #3 – Bastard Out Of Carolina
“Oh, but that’s why I got to cut his throat,” she said plainly. “If I didn’t love the son of a bitch, I’d let him live forever.”
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…”
Read a F*cking Book Review – “Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme”
WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
Stronger Than Yesterday, “Venus With Biceps” Do It Nothin’ But Their Way
So, The “Trapeze Disrobing Act” is basically exactly what it sounds like.
Jess’s Team Pick: The “It Gets Better” Book
The “It Gets Better” campaign is becoming a book. Guess who’s in it? Okay, it’s Autostraddle’s own Gabrielle Rivera!
Autostraddle Read A F*cking Book Club #2: The IHOP Papers by Ali Liebegott
THE TIME HAS COME to discuss your feelings/ideas/lucid dreams/lesbian poetry about The IHOP Papers. Come on in and grab a seat.
Seriously Guys, We Need You To Read This F*cking Book
YOU GUYS. You haven’t read this book yet have you. Please do this. Do it for me. I need to talk about my feelings about waitressing. There’s a lesbian sex scene! At least one! I can’t remember exactly!
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.
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.”