Lez Liberty Lit: James Baldwin’s Record Collection
James Baldwin’s record collection as a playlist, procrastination and writer’s block and whether or not they’re value neutral and more.
Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!
We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.
Things I Read That I Love #320: Remember How Reckless Karaoke Seemed so recently?
Topics include Zola, the rise in Black homeschooling, the return of FOMO, online stalking, “Friends,” why meetings, Generation X, racism in The Bachelor, Mare of Easttown and more!
“The 2000s Made Me Gay” Is a Pop Culture Filled Ode to the Queer Millennial Experience
“These essays offer layers of wise hindsight, exploring how certain 2000’s pop culture tropes contributed to how closeted so many gay millennials were — and how they influenced what kind of gays we would eventually grow up to be.”
Lez Liberty Lit: Stories Have Power
The power of queer coming-of-age stories, even when you’ve already come; the myth of objectivity; writing about the body; and more.
8 Books about Queer People Dealing with Cancer
From classics such as Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals published in the 1980s to brand new graphic memoirs, here are eight queer authored books about cancer.
“Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)” Is a Queer Trans Eulogy to Love and Television
“When I say it’s comforting I mean it’s comforting in the omg this is so painful and beautiful and I love art and I love being trans and I want to die and aghhafsdghslakjnci sort of way.”
COVER REVEAL: Check Out the Smokin’ Cover of Grace Lavery’s Much-Anticipated “Please Miss”
Carmen Maria Machado calls it “hilarious and sexy and terrifying in its brilliance,” while Michelle Tea says it’s a “daring, perverse, mind-blowing, intellectual, hilarious, outrageous, inspired work of art that somehow is touchingly sincere while giving no fucks whatsoever.” Check out the cover revealed exclusively on Autostraddle!
Cruising for Rivendell: What Draws Queer People to High Fantasy?
“I think people who are seekers can just really want something so badly to be real… but then you’re almost willing to do anything to make it real.”
Leah Johnson Is the Toni Morrison of Queer YA, It’s Time We Get Real About That Fact
“I just want people to know that at the core of every book I write, I want to center black girls in their wholeness and show that you can be flawed. You can be scared. You can be beautiful.”
EXCLUSIVE Excerpt: Meet Toni, One of the Main Characters in Leah Johnson’s Latest Novel “Rise to the Sun”
Leah Johnson’s new novel “Rise to the Sun” follows two Black queer girls falling in love at a music festival — here’s an exclusive excerpt!
Kristen Arnett on “With Teeth,” Lesbian Motherhood, and Sagittarius Chaos
“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”
Lez Liberty Lit: Counterfactual Realities
How memory works, BOOK IT nostalgia, why pleasure should never be guilty and more.
Things I Read That I Love #319: Yacht Content, Poolside Content, White Claw Content
Topics include TikTok, Office Space, the actual office, being bipolar, Amazon, the Disgusting Food Museum, Ghost Ship, facial feminization surgery, gymnastics, the childcare industry and so much more!
My Teenage Obsession Gets a Second Life and a Queer Adult Spin
“Had my teen girl self been sure of herself and comfortably queer as I am today, she may not have become so obsessed with advice columns in the first place.”
Lez Liberty Lit: Spontaneous Touch
Rediscovering spontaneous touch through reading, starting something new, the secret feminist history of the Oxford Dictionary and more.
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright'”s Sixsterhood Is a Collective Narrator of Queer Possibility: An Interview with A.E. Osworth
When queer voices — especially those of trans people, and Black and brown people — are so frequently ignored or actively silenced, centering a narrator made up of them turned out to be an active effort.
Talking with Alison Bechdel about Feminist Martial Arts, Lockdown, and Her New Book “The Secret to Superhuman Strength”
“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement. Alison Bechdel shares her process of writing this latest book over the last ten years, collaborating with her partner, and the “huge blossoming of lesbian culture.”
Read About the Real-Life Inspiration for “Benedetta” and More with these 5 Books on Queer & Trans Nuns
If you’d like more backstory on the real-life story of Sister Benedetta that inspired this film while you wait for its wide release, or just want more to read about real-life lesbian nuns, this is where to get started.
Lez Liberty Lit: Cultivate Weirdness
Have you been to your re-opened local library yet? Plus, how to write faster, why to get weird, what book publishing stands for and more.