Results for: be the change
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Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2015
Read these f*cking books.
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Were We Ever So Young: Revisiting “Empress of the World”
The names of the main characters, Nic and Battle, were gender neutral enough that I projected heterosexuality onto them, not yet knowing that gay YA lit was something even there to be looked for.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Colleen McKee’s “Nine Kinds of Wrong”
I’d known for a while that my colleague Colleen McKee had a book out, and one day I bought a copy from her in the break room. When I learned that it combined memoir, poetry, and fiction, I had one burning question: “Who let you do that?!”
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57 Feminists Riff on What the World Could be in “The Feminist Utopia Project”
This book is not a manual to create The Feminist Utopia; it is a process that you are invited to share in.
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Read A F*cking Book Club: A Conversation With Gabby Rivera About “Juliet Takes A Breath”
We’re talking to Gabby Rivera about her debut novel “Juliet Takes a Breath”! We talk about subtleties in Latinx media representation, queer community, forgiveness and, of course, Lil’ Melvin.
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Read A F*cking Book: Tanwi Nandini Islam’s “Bright Lines” Adds Color To LGBTQ Fiction
In a multigenerational, transcontinental tale, Bright Lines weaves together issues of gender and sexuality across cultures, migration, in/dependence, family secrets, conflict and tragedy, and well, botany.
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10 Lesbianish Sex Books To Make You Better In Bed
Want to know how to have lesbian sex? These books have your back.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Irena Klepfisz’s “Dreams of an Insomniac”
“If you have a cherished copy of Sisterhood is Powerful on your shelf, or a fascination with the ways tragedies are remembered and forgotten, you’ll enjoy this book.”
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Read A F*cking Book Review: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is Living Her Truths in “Bodymap”
I told myself 2015 was the year of living my truths. I’m excited to have a guide in this book, and in Leah’s soulful mission to love and be loved — the rest of it be damned.
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Rebel Girls: Why You Need Barbara Smith and “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”
These shouldn’t be revelations. These should be the frameworks of our revolution.
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Nerdy Staycation: Books You Can Totally Complete In A Weekend
Recommendations include books with queer content, reads you might have missed in high school, and recent award nominees!
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Hey, Let’s All Read Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa!
Come join the Speakeasy Book Club as we quest for literary enlightenment and embiggen our collective minds.
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Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2014
Definitely read these books.
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The Speakeasy Book Club #1: Let’s Talk About “Sister Outsider”
“Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.”
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If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come
Listen up all queermos within striking distance of Philly! There’s a new bookstore coming your way — a very very queer bookstore with a café and art and all sorts of amazing things. And it’s being built from the ground up by community members Makella Craelius and Puppett.
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Read a F*cking Book: Late Summer Reading For Queers and Feminists
With new books by Roxane Gay, Hannah Hart, Sarah Waters, Radclyffe and more, there are lots of things to read and talk about.
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Ten Books For Queers And Feminists To Read This Spring
Ten important queer and feminist books coming this spring.
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Read A F*cking Book: 5 Truths About Sex Work I Learned from “Playing The Whore”
It’s not up to just anyone. It’s up to sex workers to define their own destiny.
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With “Portable Homes,” Domestic Violence Survivors Reclaim Their Bodies
The second book to come out of the “Attention: People With Body Parts” project invites survivors of domestic violence to heal through discussions with their own body parts.
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Read A F*cking Book: Denice Bourbon’s “Cheers!” Is All Booze, Burlesque, and Big Dreams
“Writing a Rita Mae Brown ‘Sudden Death’ or Jenny Schecter ‘Lez Girls’ was never an option.”