Lez Liberty Lit: Discipline Is Part of Creation
On writing regularly, an approach for overwhelm, a book of botanical drawings and more.
Casey McQuiston’s “One Last Stop” Is an Unmissable Queer Rom-Com Full of Hope, Humor, and Heart
In Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop, Jane and August fall in love in the all-consuming, omniscient, dramatic, lifelong lusty way only queers and fan fiction characters do.
Heather Corinna Makes Menopause Accessible, Hilarious, and Queer AF in “What Fresh Hell Is This?”
Come for the Victorian menopause psychoanalysis mad lib; stay for the ode to cooling pillows. Heather Corinna has gifted us the queer and trans-inclusive book about menopause you didn’t know you desperately need to read, with delightful illustrations by Archie Bongiovanni!
How and Why I Wrote Bang!: A Masturbation Sex-Ed Book for Everyone
I made Bang! Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities because it profoundly made sense to me, because there was a gaping hole in that plastic wall where there should have been some acknowledgement of pleasure, consent, or the emotions of sex. Bang! was designed to fill this gap with emotionally-aware, positive sex-ed. While we had been taught about the vas deferens and fallopian tubes, we had never been taught how to even talk about sex with a partner. I made Bang! because I thought it needed to exist.
‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods
No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the way some of us still interact with our worlds today.
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.”