Rainbow Reading: Trans! Vampire! Romance!
Plus, the debate about Sally Rooney’s depictions of bisexuality and queerness continues apace.
Plus, the debate about Sally Rooney’s depictions of bisexuality and queerness continues apace.
“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”
This new series, In Verse, is about bringing you the collections of poetry that meet you where you are at. This first installment is for the person dealing with a broken heart.
The challenge of writing about human monsters is that you have to confront the ways in which they’re exactly like you are.
Welcome to another Short Fiction Playlist! In honor of Valentine’s Day, today’s theme is queer sex! Dig into these five stories featuring a sex-talking parrot, period sex, gay clubs, spanking, and more.
This February celebrate love NOT being a lie by reading a queer romance novel.
Learn more about the book whose “highlights include: a May/December queer romance, psychopaths on the loose, and a school for bad girls….” Plus, more book news and recommendations, including lots of author interviews and upcoming queer lit events!
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
It’s an attitude that’s really relatable, a year and some change sober as I am, the idea that your whole life would be different if not for this one thing that happened to you.
A road trip, a strip mall, a breakup, a painting, and a pregnancy bump — read these five queer short stories where humor sits inside of sadness.
Plus, book awards for Torrey Peters, Sarah Schulman, Darcie Little Badger, and more!
90s queer punk / counterculture / DIY books coming up!
“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort of ‘mythos’ of the South. So I wanted to fill in that gap.”
Topics include kids who play with toys on YouTube, the Brooklyn Nets, the price of being single, NFTs, LuLaRoe, weight loss camp, debt, a Home Makeover Horror Story and more!
Every other week, I’ll run my metal detector over the literary internet, dig up whatever beeps, and present to you my findings.
When I think about “good” queer representation, I think about bad. I think about bad behavior, bad relationships, bad choices, bad words.
Find strangeness, horror, spit, and surreality in these five queer short stories available online. And let me know if you want to see more short fiction recs on Autostraddle!
Often I find myself pushing so hard against the image of trans loneliness that I don’t allow myself to acknowledge the truths that lie within. This book acknowledged them for me. It hurt. I’m grateful.
If you thought 2021 was a banner year for LGBTQ+ books, wait until you see what the first three months of 2022 have in store for queer book lovers.
Over the decade-ish that I’ve been writing this column, the number of published queer and trans stories has exploded.