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Book Lists

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.

Rachel May 6, 2021 11 Comments
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Literature

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.

Ryan Yates May 6, 2021 2 Comments
The book "The Ex-Girlfriend of my Ex-Girlfriend is my Girlfriend" is repeated three times in a row. The cover is hot pink and the font of the title is done like old English characters.
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!

Vanessa May 4, 2021 3 Comments
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Book Features Quizzes

Which Lesbian Pulp Book Cover Are You?

Find out what mid-20th century gay stereotype you’d be!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 25, 2021 34 Comments
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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.

Ryan Yates April 22, 2021 1 Comment
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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.

Kate Gorton April 19, 2021 5 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #318: Eternally Hopeful That This Time There Will Be a Snack

Topics include marrying your platonic best friend, the rise of therapy-speak, COVID in prison, Homecoming at HBCUs, abuse documentaries, the road to terfdom, ranking the muppets and more!

Riese April 16, 2021 6 Comments
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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.

Lindsay Lee Wallace April 15, 2021 3 Comments
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Book Features TV Feature

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

Whedon and Rowling don’t get to lay claim to the stories we wrote, whether they were in fan fiction, on forums, or even just in our own, quiet thoughts. We own the narratives that give us meaning.

Shelly Jay Shore April 13, 2021 19 Comments
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”

Secrets, silence, internalized misogyny, power, desire, and the catastrophic — yet very common — ways in which girls are harmed as they grow into women are all themes that Febos examines in “Girlhood,” an essay collection that blends memoir, journalism, and cultural critique.

Luna Adler April 9, 2021 2 Comments
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: How Do Plague Stories End?

How DO plague stories end? Plus, “non-binary” in Italian, was this one feminist classic actually trash, the Tamagotchi cemetery and more.

Ryan Yates April 8, 2021 2 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

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

We Too maps out the underground ecosystems of sex worker survival and self-determination that are literally the building blocks of a new world order.

Aegor Ray April 5, 2021 5 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

Forsyth Harmon’s “Justine” Is a Haunting Book About Intense Teenage Friendship

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 1, 2021 5 Comments
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Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: A Phantom from the Jump

Not reading anything for a week, an interview with jamie hood, bathroom libraries, a short story collection of Sarahs and more.

Ryan Yates March 25, 2021
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Book Lists

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

“I am looking for content more than simply a small throw-away line that the woman is bisexual. I would love to see bisexual women for whom their queer identities and queer communities are a big part of their life and a notable aspect of the book.”

Casey March 22, 2021 25 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #317: One Moment Could Be Ecstatic and The Next Perilous

Topics include reviewing the book review, TikTok aesthetics, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Soho House, private school, “A Teacher” and so much more!

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

Toni Morrison as an editor; queer sex, food, and obsession; reimagining sex and survival; and more.

Ryan Yates March 11, 2021
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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

In We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel aim to amplify a politics of trans people against capitalism and empire.

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