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LGBT Book Reviews

“The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend” Is a Goddamn Delight

“The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend: Advice on Queer Dating, Love, and Friendship” is helpful, funny, aesthetically pleasing, and very very queer. In short? This book is a goddamn delight!

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Which Lesbian Pulp Book Cover Are You?

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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit Is Watching Eliza Bright

This is a We Are Watching Eliza Bright appreciation post. Plus: reading in the morning, the collapse of the dream of eternity, learning queer community and more.

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LGBT Book Reviews

“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Is a Smart, Feminist Thriller – and Also a Very Cool F*cking Book

“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” is a direct response to GamerGate… and a searing indictment of the political nightmare it foreshadowed.

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Literature

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LGBT Book Reviews

Malice’s Lesbian Love Story (and Bitter Realities) Are Worthy Additions to Dark Fantasy Re-Tellings

The dark fairytale re-telling has become an established fantasy sub-genre in its own right, and Malice’s sweet lesbian love story and bitter realities are a more-than-worthy addition.

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Joss Whedon and JK Rowling Don’t Own My Queer Narratives

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Melissa Febos "Girlhood" book review: Melissa Febos is in a black turtleneck, next to the cover art of her book "Girlhood." The book title says the word "Girlhood" in dark magenta lettering over and over until it fades into orange, spelling her name, like a sunset. It's all against a black background.
LGBT Book Reviews

Power Is Searingly Political and Personal In Melissa Febos’ “Girlhood”

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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: How Do Plague Stories End?

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How New Anthology “We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival” Honors Sex Workers’ Truths

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LGBT Book Reviews

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This tiny book is a quiet horror story in which beauty is a terror and friendship is an undoing of the self. The final line has haunted me long past reading it.

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Literature

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Book Lists

M/F Romances Featuring Bi+ Women Whose Queer Identities and Communities are Front and Center

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Literature

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Riese March 19, 2021 13 Comments
The cover of Melissa Brooder's Milk Fed: An orange background with an abstract pink breast on the front.
LGBT Book Reviews

The Audacity of Melissa Broder’s MILK FED

Broder’s coming-of age-tale MILK FED is at turns funny, poignant, and squirm-in-your-seat sexy.

Kate Gorton March 17, 2021 13 Comments
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Book Features

Labors of Love and Loss: An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt on the Occasion of “Magnified,” Her Latest Poetry Collection

In Magnified, Minnie Bruce Pratt meditates on “the eternal time of death, the short intense time of work, and the focused, magnified time of the intimacy” shared with her beloved, the late trans lesbian activist Leslie Feinberg.

Sarah Heying March 15, 2021 11 Comments
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit Follows Mix Tape Rules

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LGBT Book Reviews

For Us and for You: We Want It All Is an Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics and Archive of Trans Literary Movements

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Literature

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