Results for: be the change
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My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Vanessa, Contributing Editor
The writers I like tend to be women who live, or who have lived, in New York, and who write about girls, growing up, and what it’s like to be a human being in this world.
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A Custom Fit: So Many Ways To Read A Thing!
There’s no wrong way to read a word, but sometimes there are so many ways it’s hard to choose which fits you best. Let’s review your options so you can always ride the reading rainbow with ease.
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Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf! I Love You A Lot
There are so many different ways to celebrate. You could have a Virginia Woolf dinner and costume party! You could smoke a pipe until your throat hurts! You could speak with a British accent for a day (unless you’re already British; then it’s too easy and not as much fun).
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Things I Read That I Love #50: Habitat Habit!
Topics include serial television programs, Mr. Rogers, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, caffeine, underground new york city, boomtown North Dakota, marching band hazing, murder and so much more!
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Lez Liberty Lit #12: I Owe Everything To Being Queer
This week in literature: reading writers you hate, choosing your own adventure, evolving libraries, an interview with Eileen Myles, Gertrude Stein and more.
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Half Of 2013’s National Magazine Award Finalists Are Women, For Real, So Let’s Meet Them
Last year the NMA nominated zero ladies in its prime categories but this year we snagged half the noms! Why? Plus, I’ve got an epic rundown on everything you need to know about every ladyjourno finalist.
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Utah School District Returns Controversial Lesbian Family Book To Shelves, We Win A Thing
Davis County, UT school board realizes that maybe letting books help teach students’ tolerance about same-sex families is actually an awesome idea.
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My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Rachel, Senior Editor
I like weird books, and these people write them.
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Lez Liberty Lit #11: Just Enough Happiness
In this week’s Liberty Lit: reading a book a day, heroines, books that feature Asian lesbians, bookstore cats and more.
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Things I Read That I Love #53: You’re Really Gonna Like The First One
Topics include Mormon fundamentalists, plane crashes, studying gangs, LOST, electrocution, nostalgia for YA novels and children’s books, not going to prom and so much more!
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Read a F*cking Book: Cristy C. Road’s “Spit and Passion”
A memoir by a queer Latina punk about how her favorite band saved her from the pain of being a total weirdo.
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How Sick Is “Sick Lit”?
“We were thirteen years old, and these stories confirmed our suspicions that the world was a cruel, sad place, riddled with surprise tragedies and untimely deaths.”
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Read A F*cking Book: Ivan E. Coyote’s “One in Every Crowd”
Ivan E. Coyote’s new book, “One in Every Crowd” is a short story compilation for LGBTQ youth, outsiders of all sorts or anyone who has a soul.
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More Than Words: Láadan
The feminist sci-fi language that never got to jump off the page and do what it was supposed to.
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Plentitude Magazine’s Inaugural Issue: The Autostraddle Review
Maybe we all share the same eyes or the same hearts. Maybe we just share the same vocabulary.
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Things I Read That I Love #47: If It Makes Me Happy
Topics include happiness, solitary confinement, Cosmopolitan magazine, Elliot Smith, public education reform, “the world of a professional naked girl” and so much more!
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14 Girls We Wanted To Be Back Then: Kickass Heroines From YA & Children’s Books Of Yesteryear
We spent the 80’s and early 90’s with our noses in books, dreaming of being Scout or Molly or Fern or Heidi or Ramona or Harriet or so many more! What are your favorites?
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My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Riese, Editor-in-Chief
In which all books mentioned herein were published after 1975 and almost everybody is both female and still alive.
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Things I Read That I Love #41: In Claudia’s Handwriting
Topics include surfing, Kraft Dinner, the inherent danger of existing while female, The Babysitters Club, the flood in Pratsville, hardcore and so much more!
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Things I Read That I Love #45: To The Skin And Bone And Ragshow Of The Heart
Topics include Star Trek TNG, Strong Female Action Heroes, crime reporting, poverty in rural America, being trans and homeless and SO MUCH MORE!