Results for: book
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“Brown Neon” Is a Tribute to the Power of Art and Community in the American Southwest
Over the course of these ten essays, Raquel GutiƩrrez skillfully maps the realities, struggles, and joys of queer, Latinx, artistic life in the Southwest U.S.
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“Girls Can Kiss Now” and Other Realizations with Jill Gutowitz
We reviewed “Girls Can Kiss Now,” Jill Gutowitz’s debut essay collection about pop culture, the internet, growing up, and being very very gay. You’re gonna love it.
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Michelle Teaās Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone ā Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents
For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, Iād be a parent.
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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.
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Hil Malatino’s “Trans Care” Doesn’t Have the Answers on Meeting Trans Community Needs ā But It Shouldn’t
Itās doubly oppressive that weāre denied care and then left to fulfill the care needs of each other with our own depleted resources. Transantagonism is a global pandemic of indifference and hatred ā but thereās no vaccine coming. If you were looking for answers, they arenāt here. If you want to ponder the nuance and difficulty of care, though ā dive into Trans Care.
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Arisa Whiteās “Whoās Your Daddy” Explores the Quest for Family and Healing in a Queer, African-Diasporic Context
Whoās Your Daddy travels from the United States to Guyana to explore fatherhood and the role of masculinity, care, and caregiving in our lives. While the search for and eventual dinner with the father is a primary narrative of Whoās Your Daddy, the love story between the narrator and Mondayway, the narratorās beloved, will delight Autostraddle readers as well.
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13 Mind-Expanding Nonfiction Books to Read for LGBTQ History Month
Pick up one of these 13 books about LGBTQ history and learn about your queer and trans ancestors!
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10 Books on Voting, Elections and Government to Get You Ready for the Midterms
Informed citizens unite!
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8 Self-Help Books about Lesbian Relationships
Here are eight non-fiction self-help books about lesbian relationships, partnerships, marriage, and dating!
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Getting to an Imperfect, Queer Center: Interview with Marlee Grace
“The goal, especially in 2020, has not been to feel better or feel my best, but it’s to feel less shitty than I did five minutes ago.” Marlee Grace’s Getting to Center is the tender, lesbian self-help book to start this year off right. We interview her about the book, internet addiction, higher powers, and the moonās creative potential.
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Power Is Searingly Political and Personal In Melissa Febos’ “Girlhood”
Secrets, silence, internalized misogyny, power, desire, and the catastrophic ā yet very common ā ways in which girls are harmed as they grow into women are all themes that Febos examines in “Girlhood,” an essay collection that blends memoir, journalism, and cultural critique.
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How New Anthology “We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival” Honors Sex Workers’ Truths
We Too maps out the underground ecosystems of sex worker survival and self-determination that are literally the building blocks of a new world order.
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The Drop: Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew’s “Black Futures” Is a Triumphant Celebration of Black Voices and Black Innovation
Black people are the future, creating some of the most beautiful and challenging art we have seen, forging a way out of the past while being entirely cognizant of it. As the editors state in the introduction, time is not linear, we are always in conversation with the past, present, and future. Black Futures as a collection is keenly aware of this.
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Surprise Porn and Hospital Parties: The Queer and Trans Pleasure in Marty Fink’s “Forget Burial”
Marty Fink shows how caregiving is activism, disability is sexy and dusty archives are tantalizing in Forget Burial, an essential, highly pleasurable, read.
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Leigh Finke’s “Queerfully and Wonderfully Made” Answers Crucial Questions for LGBTQ+ Christian Youth
“I wish I had these books when I was 15. I needed permission. I needed somebody to tell me, ‘Youāre ok.’ If I had had one place to go, one book in my hand, known one person, I could have avoided a lot of trouble.”
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“Everybody (Else) Is Perfect,” Gabrielle Korn’s Debut Essay Collection, Examines the Media World She Helped Create
“Everybody (Else) Is Perfect” is a bold and complicated meditation on media, feminism, and the internet, written from the perspective of a thoughtful and deeply honest insider. It is also very, very gay.
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Resistance 101 Reading List: A Crash-Course for Aspiring Revolutionaries
You’re joining a fight that is by no means new, check out this list of books to make sure you come correct to the next rally.
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Carnal Knowledge Is the Sex Guide You Wish You Had In High School
Carnal Knowledge is full of the truths you wish youād learned from your hip older sister if your hip older sister happened to read a lot of feminist literature.
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How to Actually Accept Help from People Who Love You: An Excerpt from “The Art of Showing Up”
When someone I know is dealing with a difficult situation, I typically feel extremely āPut me in, coach!!!ā But when I am the one in a difficult spot? Well, then, thanks so much for offering but Iām perfectly fine to handle this on my own!!! The fact is, asking for/accepting help is incredibly difficult for a lot of usāeven those of us who know, logically, that no one can get through life alone.
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Tana Wojczukās “Lady Romeo” Profiles Shakespearean Actress Charlotte Cushman, Leading Man of the 19th Century
What kind of choose-your-own-adventure occurs when a queer lady with an unbending will and a penchant for leaping about onstage with a dagger strapped to her thigh is born in 1816 and refuses to espalier herself to convention? Tana Wojczukās “Lady Romeo” would like to tell you.