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Keah Brown on Her New Picture Book and the Importance of Disability Representation for Children
“I was excited to talk about rest for children, to talk about how even rest can be an adventure.”
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New “Fire Island” Book Weaves Personal, Historical Narrative To Highlight Power of Community Solidarity
More a place-based memoir than a straightforward history, “Fire Island” provides unique insight on the history, present, and future of this almost mythical place.
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Sapphic Romance Books To Give Your Heart a Spring Refresh
If you’re looking for something that evokes spring, whether literally or figuratively, this list of YA and Adult Romance has you covered.
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Rainbow Reading: Hey Siri, What’s the Opposite of Listless?
Instead of discourse, you know what we’ve got during this last mellow week? Lists. SO MANY LISTS.
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Interview With a Tranpire
It’s not hard to see the connection that trans readers and storytellers can find in vampire media.
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Autistic Teen Girl Takes On the Rich and Powerful in This Queer YA Thriller
This is Jen Wilde’s first thriller, but I hope not her last.
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In “Diary of a Misfit,” Casey Parks Creates Records of Lives Left Out of History
What is most compelling about Diary of a Misfit is how brilliantly organized it is. All at once, we get a biography, a memoir, a family history, and the active history of a place that most people are unfamiliar with.
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Leah Johnson’s Middle Grade Debut Will Take You Right Back to Seventh Grade
Ellie Engle Saves Herself isn’t solely for children. If you’ve ever found yourself on a journey of self understanding, you will see yourself in Ellie.
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Rainbow Reading: ’Tis the Damn Season Already?
Literally what do you mean that it’s December already?
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Chris Belcher’s “Pretty Baby” Examines the Power of Shame in Our Culture
You don’t have to look very closely to see that shame is one of the foremost organizing principles of our society.
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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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Fatimah Asghar’s New Novel Is a Salve for My Reality of Grief
Nothing lasts, though — not our parents, not our homes, not our relationships, not us.
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Rainbow Reading: The 2022 Lambda Literary Award Winners, Erotic Cookbooks, and More!
June is full of LGBTQ+ book releases, but make sure to preorder queer books all summer!
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Love and Loss Lead to Healing in YA Novel “I Will Find You Again”
Sarah Lyu’s I Will Find You Again deftly captures the volatile nature of teenage girls falling in love with each other for the first time.
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My Favorite Witchy Books of 2021
Every year, more and more brilliant, engaging, inspiring witchy books are published to help both beginner and more advanced practitioners improve their skills with tarot, astrology, tarot, numerology, herbalism, divination, and other sacred practices.
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Rainbow Reading: I’m a Book-at-the-Bar Kind of Nerd
Yashwina is back for another round of Rainbow Reading, rounding up all the latest LGBTQ+ literature news and happenings.
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Get in Your Back-to-School Feelings With These 10 Queer YA Books
Back-to-school time is my favorite time of the year now that I’m an adult.
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Seven Queer Writers Reflect on Their Essays Published in “Sex and the Single Woman”
Behind the scenes with Kristen Arnett, Keah Brown, Rosemary Donahue, Josie Pickens, Vanessa Friedman, Samantha Allen, and Xoai Pham about their contributions to this reimagined cult classic.
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Jeanna Kadlec’s “Heretic” Is a Memoir for the Witches Who Grew From Good Christian Women
Heretic is part memoir, part cultural critique, part political analysis, and part history, all viewed through the queer lens of a woman who grew up in the Midwest trying her hardest to be a Good Christian Girl, before finally accepting she’s a lesbian and nearly gnawing off her own arm to escape before she could be burned at the stake.
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In Verse: Poetry Collections for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Whether you’re ready to heal or just want to hear someone else’s story, these poets are experts at examining grief, loss, and recovery.