Results for: read a f*cking book
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Jenn Shapland Names What Needs Naming in “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers”
It has taken over 50 years for us to get the full, queer truth about Carson McCullers’s life, and now I know why. We were waiting for Jenn Shapland.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Into The Public Domain
Gay sex in great literature, healing from ancestral trauma, Zora Neal Hurston’s legacy, and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Don’t Read A Book A Week
Reading goals as a personal hell, memes as a new kind of formalism, a dare to not be productive and more.
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Things I Read That I Loved #327: Every Misunderstood Youth Must Be In Want of a Publisher.
Topics include Child Protective Services, wrongful convictions, abortion, OXO kitchen products, safety town, getitng cancelled in high school, Joel Kim Booster, MTV Books and more!
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Lez Liberty Lit: The Word of the Year
“They” is the word of the year! Plus: when languages die, when bookstores unionize, when Hilton Als writes on Joan Didion and more.
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Read A F*cking Book Club: Talking with Ariel Gore About “We Were Witches”
We’re discussing We Were Witches and sharing a brilliant interview with author Ariel Gore. Come join Autostraddle Book Club – the comments are wide open and we wanna hear everything you’ve got to say about this book.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Drowning in “Best of” Lists
Queer pleasure as a form of resistance, finding your purpose, the best of the best of lists and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Motivated By Drive (Or Fear)
Is there a difference between drive and fear? Where are the abortion memoirs? What fall books should you definitely read?
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Lez Liberty Lit Is in the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado’s new gothic memoir, why reading is different from experiencing, new Elena Ferrante and more.
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Read A F*cking Book Club: We’re Gonna Read “We Were Witches!”
We Were Witches by Ariel Gore is an autobiographical novel that uses magick spells and inverted fairy tales to combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans. We’re going to read it together this month!
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Lez Liberty Lit: The Future Is Not Infinite
Nostalgia as a way to connect with diaspora, we are about to lose memory and history, reading on the climate emergency and more.
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25 Movies Just Perfect for Crying Through Your Divorce
Even if you’re not going through a divorce right now, here are some very pretty movies to look back at you while you blow snot bubbles into your t-shirt (no one is watching, it’s fine).
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60 Best Queer and Lesbian Netflix TV Shows
We’ve got 60 Lesbian, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Netflix Original TV shows streaming right now on the very internet you’re reading!
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A-Camp October 2013 Recamp #4: You Look Wonderful Tonight
It’s our very last recamp! In this heart-pounding tale of love and life, a bunch of weirdos go to prom, witness an epic proposal, and share all their feelings.
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Read a F-cking Book: Nicole Georges’s “Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home”
“Fetch” is a beautiful love letter to a pet, a coming of age story, and an exploration of all the complexities of what it really means to take care of another living being.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Evaluating Everything
YA trans literature, a new national Canadian literature by women, how to evaluate what you see and hear and more.
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Needing To Abort Due To a Life-Limiting Fetal Diagnosis Was Heartbreaking Enough Already
Getting a life-limiting fetal diagnosis like trisomy 18 is devastating to expectant parents, who usually choose to abort rather than wait for an inevitable miscarriage, stillbirth, or a painful brief life for their child. But after Roe’s overturning, parents in many areas won’t have that choice at all, making an already heartbreaking situation more dangerous and traumatic.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Study Your Own Hunger
Feeling like a stranger in your body, on M.F.K. Fisher and joy in eating and writing, beach reads and more.
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Read A F-cking Book: SJ Sindu’s “Marriage Of A Thousand Lies”
Lucky’s been walking a thin line. She desperately wants to maintain a relationship with her family, and especially with her mother, but she also aches to live as an out lesbian.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Seeking the Sublime, or Something
Writing women’s sexuality in literary fiction, digital minimalism, queer summer reading and more.