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LGBT Book Reviews

“Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good” Asks Us to Practice for the World We Want

Pleasure Activism offers up a multitude of tactics for which to embody pleasure, claim it as a central and essential liberatory practice, and a sustainable one for the long-term road trip of justice work.

Bani Amor March 6, 2019 12 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #284: The Sharpest Pain I Have Ever Felt and a High I’ve Never Matched Since

Topics include lesbian doppelgängers, the lives of facebook moderators, YouTube’s young ASMR stars, Homicide: Death on the Screen, student loans, Elizabeth Holmes and so much more!

Riese March 1, 2019 2 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit Is Investigating Creative Sustainability

A website that generates short stories based on phone numbers, the feminist Western, financially sustaining a creative life, books to read before “The L Word” comes back, and more.

Ryan Yates February 28, 2019 2 Comments
Book Lists

8 Books to Read if You Loved the Queer Community of “Stray City”

Have you read Stray City by Chelsey Johnson? It’s got great authentic representation of supportive queer community. Here are eight more books featuring queers who show up for each other!

Casey February 27, 2019 13 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

“Long Live The Tribe of Fatherless Girls” Is a Gritty, Glittering Debut Memoir of Family, Grief, and Boca Raton

I talked to lesbian author T Kira Madden about her debut memoir, the challenges of writing about family and addiction, and finding a sense of belonging in queer community and in life.

Vanessa February 26, 2019 5 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #283: Wasted Again in the Dark Glow of Post-Breakup Tragic Freedom

Topics include stadium bathrooms, murder, “sportswriting’s filthiest fuck-up,” Heaven’s Gate fashion, handheld gaming, everyone else but you having money, the queer art of f*cking your friends and more!

Riese February 15, 2019 6 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit Is Writing Honestly About The Body

“Why are we so quick to conclude that marginalized writers’ work is autobiographical?” Plus books about love triangles, a secret lesbian code, why you need to start writing letters to trans people in prison and more.

Ryan Yates February 14, 2019 2 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Stray City Is a Love Story about Friendship, Portland, and Chelsey Johnson’s Queer Community

If I could have willed a book into existence, that book would be Stray City — so I talked to Chelsey Johnson about her debut novel and what it’s like to render queer community so intimately for the public.

Vanessa February 12, 2019 8 Comments
Book Features

For Your Consideration: Revisiting The Books You Loved in Middle School

You’d be surprised the kind of memories that can be sparked by a simple phrase or even by the look and feel of a book.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 5, 2019 48 Comments
Book Lists

68 LGBT YA Books to Get Excited for in 2019

Can you even believe this list has 68 (!!) upcoming 2019 queer YA books? WOW. No matter what kind of LGBT YA you’re into, there is something on this list for you.

Casey February 4, 2019 19 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #282: A Couple of Misfit Queer Kids in Matching Black Leather Biker Jackets

Topics include Bryan Singer, toxic YA twitter, Chirstopher Pike, the tell-tale fan, Oscars for racial reconciliation fantasies, sexual assault as male bonding, Lil Tay, Soundcloud rap, sunscreen and more!

Riese February 1, 2019 22 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Imagining a Safer Future

Still mourning Mary Oliver. Plus why “books” are not a personality, the mood of reading, feminist bookstores to support right now and more.

Ryan Yates January 31, 2019 1 Comment
Book Lists Queer Pregnancy

What to Read When You’re Queer and Expecting: 6 Parenting Books That Smash The Patriarchy

Unfortunately, most parenting books weren’t written with queer moms, trans dads, non-binary parents and gestational carriers, and families that look like ours in mind.

KaeLyn January 29, 2019 23 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Resistance and Hope Dares Us to Go Beyond Activism 101

If you’re looking for easy answers that preserve your bubble, you won’t find them here. But that’s exactly why anyone who considers themselves an activist, an ally, or a member of the resistance writ large needs to read this book.

Carrie January 24, 2019 7 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #281: I Google Myself Every Day to Find Out If I’m Gay Or Not

Topics include what happened to Lindsay Lohan, free giveaways, precocious puberty, sober creativity, The Art of the Pan, The Cauldron, being lost at sea for 51 days, toxic shock syndrome, burnout and so much more!

Riese January 18, 2019 8 Comments
Book Features

Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lesbian Poet, Is Dead at 83

Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-Winning poet and ardent devotee of the natural world throughout her life, has passed away from lymphoma at the age of 83.

Rachel January 17, 2019 25 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit Is Full of Its Past Selves

A humble argument for not counting how many books you read. Plus: Lin-Manuel Miranda saved a bookstore, Mari Kondo doesn’t actually want you to get rid of all your books, and more.

Ryan Yates January 17, 2019 4 Comments
Book Lists

8 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books with Queer Poly Relationships

8 great queer women-focused poly SF/F books coming right up!

Casey January 10, 2019 25 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #280: Falling In Love With Her Was Like Falling In Love With a Character I’d Written

Topics include The Apprentice, emotional abuse, the year in dog, HIV/AIDS, really gross murder, bad faith reading, Sheryl Sandberg, Elizabeth Warren, and so much more!

Riese January 4, 2019 20 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

“The Lesbian South” Carries Lesbian History, Ideology and Gossip into the Present

Along with the Civil Rights Movement, the blues, and the Moon Pie, we also have the American South to thank for a 50-plus year bounty of lesbian literature.

fonseca January 3, 2019 6 Comments
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