Are You the Heroine of a Tamora Pierce Novel?
Are you a regular adult human queer person, or have you been the fictional tomboy heroine of a beloved fantasy series this whole time? Only one way to find out.
8 YA Books Featuring Characters who Are Happily Lesbian but Have Other Drama
8 great YA books with lesbian main characters who are dealing with drama not related to coming out, homophobia, or anything related to their sexuality!
Things I Read That I Love #292: There Are Chocolate Chips In The Freezer
Topics include Babe dot net, The Pioneer Woman, Judge Judy, queer food, GoFundMe healthcare, clapping back, Cooking: Why?, untying the knot at her throat and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Study Your Own Hunger
Feeling like a stranger in your body, on M.F.K. Fisher and joy in eating and writing, beach reads and more.
This New Book on Nurturance Culture Is Needed, but Is It Too Normative?
While “Turn This World Inside Out” makes plain the problems with shaming folks into a more liberated world free of gendered violence, it does so in limited ways that made me as a reader hungry for more.
Learn How the Tarot Can Be Just as Queer as You Are with “Queering the Tarot”
Yes, the Empress card can represent any gender.
The Perfect Queer Poem: For Facing Our Enemies
We stay open, even when our minds are swayed by bitterness and despair, because our queer lives depend on knowing that we don’t have to live like this. We turn in the direction of the sun and keep walking.
Things I Read That I Love #291: Through a Dazzlingly Quick Intimacy To Violent Disagreement, Then Silence
Topics include picking/pulling/not coming, the gay neighborhood of Montrose, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, non-profits, gay men walking fast, Bennington in the ’80s, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” abortion and Grease.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Seeking the Sublime, or Something
Writing women’s sexuality in literary fiction, digital minimalism, queer summer reading and more.
The Perfect Queer Poem: For When it Doesn’t Matter if You Want to Be Her or F*ck Her
H.D. sometimes had a fraught relationship with her own bisexuality, feeling pulled towards either lesbianism or heterosexuality rather than feeling her queerness as an integrated whole. Reconciling her bisexuality was a creative project for her.
15 New LGBT Books to Make Your Summer Hot Hot Hot
Whether your thing is memoir, fiction, new poetry or YA, there’s definitely something coming out this summer by and/or about queer people that you’re going to want to throw in your bag for the beach, get points for in your library’s summer reading program, or share with that new babe you just started seeing who loves your poetry recs.
The Perfect Queer Poem: When You Need to Find Your Body
A gut feeling is intuition, sure, but it’s also something that announces HERE is the body, NOW is the body, RIGHT NOW.
8 Funny Books Featuring Queer Adult Women
8 queer women books to make you laugh!
Lez Liberty Lit Is All About Summer Reading
What a beach read is anyway, a new book about Los Angeles BDSM, the most cursed days for writers and more.
The Perfect Queer Poem: When You Don’t Feel The Need to Explain Anything to the Straights
It’s June, it’s June, we’re living, it’s June. Do you feel our powers rising with the heat, our stares lengthening with the daylight, our desires coming on like freak lightening?
Kristen Arnett’s ‘Mostly Dead Things’ Is a Funny, Dark Story of Messy Queer Love (also, Taxidermy)
Mostly Dead Things is the story of what happens to a young woman when her life is torn open and reset in a different pose, and how she deals with herself — and her queerness — as a part of that confusion soup.
The Perfect Queer Poem: For Defining Your Boundaries
The line breaks are hard to take. They make the poem feel like a fight: not knowing when to stop, talking over one another, losing your thread, gasping for air through tears.
Things I Read That I Love #290: Where Commercials For Gardasil Can Appear To Be the Most Realistic Depiction of Women on Television
Topics include Chernobyl, Sassy, Soviet food, Paul Newman salad dressing, growing up in a cult, Tony Robbins, L.A. on film and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Detective Work
Queer language before we had queer language, a new generation of villainous women, why money doesn’t save artists, the best bad women in fiction, tons of translated titles and more.
Read Hannah Paasch’s ‘Millenneagram,’ Figure Out Who the F*ck You Are, Live Your Best Life
What’s your enneagram type? Hannah Paasch wants to help you figure that out and so much more.