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New Memoir Explores Growing Up as a Twin and Coming Out in Midlife
There’s no doubt queer people face much more social stigma than twins do, but using the lens of society’s erroneous beliefs about twinship can help deconstruct our culture’s most fallacious thoughts about queerness and what it means to be a queer person.
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Grease Bats: The Book Is Out Today and It’s Queer, Hilarious, Familiar, Perfect
It’s hard to overstate how much I loved this book and how much I think you will, too.
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Two Women Find Love in a Quirky Southern Town in “Love and Hot Chicken”
Slow burn romance in a small Southern town gives this queer novel its heat.
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This Recently Expanded Poetry Collection Touches on the Ambivalence of Being Queer in Florida
I’m still learning how to be queer in Florida.
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‘Love the World Or Get Killed Trying’ Is a Poetic Cry of Trans Loneliness
The achievement of Alvina Chamberland’s text is how she reveals the deeper loneliness beneath her romantic isolation.
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“Free Them All” Makes a Feminist Argument for Prison Abolition
Gwénola Ricordeau has written an ideal academic text. It is, at once, simple to read and complex in its ideology.
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‘Housemates’ Is a Remarkable Novel, Intimate, Expansive, and Full of Sight
It’s about seeing through images and seeing through words. It’s also a love story, about falling for the way another person sees the world, the magic of realizing someone sees in a way that is different than you yet insistently compatible.
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Mairead Sullivan’s “Lesbian Death” Tells Us Why the L Isn’t Disappearing
Mairead Sullivan’s new book, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer explores and aims to disrupt our contemporary anxieties around the disappearance of the term “lesbian” as an identity, political standpoint, and theoretical concept.
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Cleat Cute’s Sapphic Soccer Romance Will Fill the World Cup-Shaped Hole in Your Heart
It can’t be good for your body to cut off lesbian soccer drama cold turkey.
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“The Third Daughter” Is Sapphic Slow-Burn Fantasy and Feminist Rage
What turned it into an auto-buy was the Post-It note attached to the shelf. A flimsy lime-green placeholder for one of the voicey, detailed recommendation cards that are always tucked around the shop, with three words scrawled on it: “magical furious lesbians.”
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YA Favorite Jennifer Dugan’s Queer Thriller Debut Is a Lesson in Trauma
The Last Girls Standing gave me big Yellowjackets vibes.
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“Alice Sadie Celine” Is a Delectable Queer Sex Novel With a Wicked Sense of Humor
If you’re less into slow-burn and more into the narrative equivalent of a wildfire, this one’s for you.
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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.
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Perfume Provides a Map of Memory and History in This Powerful Memoir
Tanaïs’ In Sensorium is an aesthetic, intimate labyrinth of ancestral reckoning and identity.
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“Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh” Is a Fun Time-Travel Sapphic Romance
Can you fall in love with a girl when there’s a 200 year barrier between you?
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“Little Foxes Took Up Matches” Stayed With Me Long After I Finished Reading
The book invites readers to fall in love with a child falling in love with himself and his friends and his own power and his own transformative potential amidst a backdrop of chaos, and even if you weren’t born in 1987, it will likely stick with you for a while.
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“Yours for the Taking” Review: Matriarchy Won’t Save Us
The novel explores queer romance, corporate feminism, and reimagined community at the end of the world.
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“Working It” Says the Quiet Parts Out Loud About Sex Work
Before I was a sex worker, I was a proud sex worker ally.
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Moby Dyke Is a Fresh Take on the Old Conversation About Disappearing Lesbian Bars
I didn’t go to my first lesbian bar until I was in my early twenties.
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“Burning Butch” Is the Trans Butch Memoir We’ve Always Needed
We’ve always needed books like Burning Butch out in the world reminding us that it’s possible to fight back, to overcome, and to survive despite all odds.