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Omiseāeke Tinsleyās “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival
A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming.
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Lost Lesbian Lit: A Lesbian Novel From the 1950s and the Continued Importance of Maudeās Abortion Episode
Our perception of history is shaped by who writes the stories and who publishes them.
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book āĀ Helen House, a queer horror novelette āĀ comes out October 18.
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An Exclusive Preview of “Critical Role: Mighty Nein Origins,” Featuring Our Resident Disaster Lesbian, Beauregard Lionett!
Take a look back at Beau’s life before she was the badass monk (pop pop!) we know and love from Critical Role; see what she got up to before she joined the Mighty Nein, and get to the root of her daddy issues.
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Marika Cifor Wants You To Activate Your Nostalgia for ACT UP
Marika Ciforās new book Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS explores how LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS archives shape our understanding of history.
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Lost Lesbian Lit: Murder! At the Retirement Home
My only positive memory of my grandma was our last, the one time I was with her as myself.
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Lost Lesbian Lit: Mommy Issues! At the Women’s Writers Retreat
Lost Lesbian Lit is a series of essays about lesbian literature from before 2010 with fewer than 25 ratings on Goodreads.
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Danny Lavery on What Itās Like To Be an Advice Columnist
“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”
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Things I Read That I Love #332: Massage Parlors, Daily Harvest, Climbing, Branson, Britney and More
Topics include the late shift at a Toronto massage parlor, Baptist Vegas, the New Ken circa 2017 by Caity Weaver, Buy Nothing, Daily Harvest, a missing girl in the Ozarks, a mountain-climbing death that changed everything and more!
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“Ingredients for Revolution” Offers a New Look at Social Justice Movement History
Cafes became hubs for marginalized members of the communities they were in, and learning their history helps us understand the power of their impact.
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Roxane Gay, Carrie Brownstein, Roberta Colindrez, Jane Lynch To Star in Audible Adaptation of Dykes To Watch Out For
With a killer voiceover cast and a creative team with strong theater cred, the Audible version of Dykes to Watch Out For looks hot.
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Things I Read That I Love #328: You Never Called That Girl Back Even Though You Were Dating
Topics include the mall, Tinder, Gabby Petito, the abuse scandal at an acclaimed L.A high school, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Crime Junkie, amusement parks, dog breeds and more!
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When Survival Isnāt Just About Yourself
Writer Blair Braverman talks preppers, survival, queer love, and her gripping new novel, Small Game.
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Chance and Error Are Friends to Sadie Dupuis’ Writing Process
Poet and musician Sadie Dupuis talks new collection Cry Perfume, scent and memory, and using autocorrect as a co-writer.
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Life Is Not a Novel
Iāve always had a very active daydream life.
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The Unspeakable Shadows of Nightwood
You fear Nightwood because of what it reveals about you.
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A Queer Womanās Place Is in the Horror Story
Domestic horror is gay as hell.
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Author Melanie Bell on her YA Novel “Chasing Harmony” and the Messy Process of Growing Up Queer
“The people I met who were identified as musical prodigies had long journeys involving conflict between their abilities and personal needs and finding who they were beyond the weight of expectations. When I was younger, successes and failures felt huge, and this is the case for Anna too.”
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Kemi Adeyemiās Feels Right Explores the Politics of Black Queer Nightlife
Adeyemi told me when we talked in May that she has long been āfrustrated with writing about queer nightlife that really presents it as this utopian escape from everyday life.ā āThatās a story, it’s not reality,ā she argues.Ā
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Davey Davis on āX,ā True Crime, and the Fantasy of Screwball Comedy
“The thing that gets me about a lot of peopleās just criticisms of Fifty Shades of Grey is, as a romance novel, as a ravishment novel, itās a lot closer to real SM, real sexy pulp, than most.”