Rainbow Reading: Trans! Vampire! Romance!
Plus, the debate about Sally Rooney’s depictions of bisexuality and queerness continues apace.
Gretchen Felker-Martin on “Manhunt,” Martyrdom, and the Unimportance of Being Valid
“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”
In Verse: Poetry Collections for Broken Hearts
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.
A Mile in Her Jackboots: Writing TERFs as a Trans Author
The challenge of writing about human monsters is that you have to confront the ways in which they’re exactly like you are.
Short Fiction Playlist: Five Stories With Queer Sex
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.
Quiz: Which Queer Romance Novel Should You Read This February?
This February celebrate love NOT being a lie by reading a queer romance novel.
Rainbow Reading: More Like Mercury READtrograde, Am I Right!
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!
Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman
“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.”
“Getting Clean With Stevie Green” Cares More About the Mess
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.
Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Stories That Find Humor in Sad Places
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.
Rainbow Reading: A New Story Collection From Carmen Maria Machado Is Coming!
Plus, book awards for Torrey Peters, Sarah Schulman, Darcie Little Badger, and more!
Eight Queer Punk and Counterculture Books Set in the 90s
90s queer punk / counterculture / DIY books coming up!
Morgan Thomas On Weaving Genderqueer History Into Their Debut Short Fiction Collection “Manywhere”
“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.”
Things I Read That I Love #324: You May Call It Dirty, But I Call It Home
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!
Rainbow Reading: It’s Showtime, Folks
Every other week, I’ll run my metal detector over the literary internet, dig up whatever beeps, and present to you my findings.
7 Brilliant Books About Chaotic Queers
When I think about “good” queer representation, I think about bad. I think about bad behavior, bad relationships, bad choices, bad words.
Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories To Get Lost in This Weekend
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!
Slow Takes: Casey Plett’s “A Dream of a Woman” and Forgiveness as a Love Story
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.
80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Winter 2022
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.
Lez Liberty Lit: The End
Over the decade-ish that I’ve been writing this column, the number of published queer and trans stories has exploded.