Results for: queer parenting
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10 Books for Dungeons & Dragons Queers To Read Between Adventures
All of these stories feature: magic and/or melee, quests, chosen families, and queer characters.
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Life Is Not a Novel
I’ve always had a very active daydream life.
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This YA Book Is a Great Queer Second-Chance Romance
What would you do if the one person you loved the most was the one person you cannot remember?
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A Memoir Isn’t a Self-Help Book
Author Jeanna Kadlec talks about her new memoir Heretic, the loss of leaving a life, gay Bible stories, and more.
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Eight Romance Novels Featuring Trans Women, by Trans Authors
We’ve got fantasy romance, contemporary romance, YA science fiction comic romance, historical romance, and more!
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Malinda Lo on Her Historic National Book Award Win and Lesbian Literature’s History and Future
Malinda Lo talks about writing queerness in different genres, butch/femme dynamics in literature, and the gay Macy’s of the 1960s that didn’t make it into her book.
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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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Queer Naija Lit: “Under the Udala Trees” Honors the Past and Paints the Future With Hope
In light of current conditions for queer Nigerians — and global conditions facing queer people — a book like 2015’s Under the Udala Trees is ever-timely.
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30 Books That Are Still Gay Even Though Pride Month Is Over
Today is July 1 which means that Pride Month is officially over, but here at Autostraddle we like talking about gay books 24/7/365.
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80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Spring 2022
The weather is getting warmer and the LGBTQ+ books are only getting hotter! Queer book lovers, get ready we have all your spring blanket reading needs covered.
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Li Kotomi’s “Solo Dance” Is Haunted by Death and Literature
Solo Dance has no illusions that in the present day, the implicit and explicit violence of homophobia still leaves lasting scars on young queer people.
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Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s “Pet” and “Bitter” Explore the Costs of a Different World
A new world isn’t possible without people believing it is.
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Gay History, Mystery, and Romance Abound in Latest Thrilling Vera Kelly Adventure
Set in 1971, Vera Kelly: Lost and Found takes the series’ titular P.I. from post-Stonewall NYC to the sprawling land of Southern California, where she must solve her most personal case ever: the disappearance of her girlfriend.
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This Sporty Queer YA Novel Is the Best Book I’ve Read in Years
In last year’s Like Other Girls, Britta Lundin creates a heartwarming depiction of queer mentorship and intergenerational queer friendship.
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Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist
“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”
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Queer Naija Lit: “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde Names the Things People Would Rather Look Away From
Welcome to Queer Naija Lit, a new series that analyzes and celebrates queer Nigerian literature. First up: a review of the new novel “Vagabonds!” by Eloghosa Osunde.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Do Not Privatize Libraries
Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.
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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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A Queer Woman’s Place Is in the Horror Story
Domestic horror is gay as hell.
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65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023
Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.