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A Black woman in a red beret reads a book with a mug in one hand
Literature

Rainbow Reading: Trans! Vampire! Romance!

Plus, the debate about Sally Rooney’s depictions of bisexuality and queerness continues apace.

Yashwina February 24, 2022 4 Comments
The author Gretchen Felker-Martin. She is wearing red framed glasses and black lipstick and her hair is short and dark brown. On either side of her is the cover of her new novel Manhunt.
Book Features

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.”

Drew Burnett Gregory February 22, 2022 18 Comments
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Book Lists

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.

danijanae February 17, 2022 5 Comments
The book cover of Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin features a pair of plums in a netted bag with a bite taken out of one of the plums. The bottom of the book says: The end of the world is nuts.
Book Features

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.

Gretchen Felker-Martin February 16, 2022 62 Comments
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Book Lists

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 14, 2022 2 Comments
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Book Lists Quizzes

Quiz: Which Queer Romance Novel Should You Read This February?

This February celebrate love NOT being a lie by reading a queer romance novel.

Casey February 13, 2022 35 Comments
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Literature

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!

Yashwina February 10, 2022 4 Comments
The book cover of Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis by Grace Lavery, which features a pair of red lipsticked lips with a cigarette hanging out
Book Features

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.”

Drew Burnett Gregory February 8, 2022 20 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

“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.

Analyssa February 1, 2022
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Book Lists

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 28, 2022 6 Comments
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Literature

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!

Yashwina January 27, 2022 12 Comments
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Book Lists

Eight Queer Punk and Counterculture Books Set in the 90s

90s queer punk / counterculture / DIY books coming up!

Casey January 24, 2022 13 Comments
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Book Features

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.”

Abbie Jones January 24, 2022 6 Comments
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Literature

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!

Riese January 19, 2022 15 Comments
A book with rainbow pages and the words Rainbow Reading
Literature

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.

Yashwina January 13, 2022 16 Comments
A collage of the seven books featured in the list
Book Lists

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 9, 2022 35 Comments
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Book Lists

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!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 7, 2022 45 Comments
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First Person LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 6, 2022 12 Comments
A collage of books featured in the winter 2022 books preview list
Book Lists

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.

Casey January 3, 2022 15 Comments
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Literature

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.

Ryan Yates December 30, 2021 38 Comments
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