Lez Liberty Lit: Creative Metabolism
The creative process, insomnia, books to read in 2019 and more.
20 of the Best LGBTQ Graphic Novels of 2018
From memoirs to how-to’s to love stories to sports to space, 2018 was another brilliant year for graphic novels written by queer people about queer people.
Things I Read That I Love #279: Surly Twentysomethings Resembling Peter Pan’s Lost Boys If the Lost Boys Were Girls
Topics include murder, a bonkers Christmas light fight, Brendan Fraser, squatty potties, sunburnt Australia, a ’90s San Francisco dyke “gang,” top surgery, why killers kill, alcoholism and so much more!
Gaby Dunn’s “Bad With Money” Will Make You Love Talking About Finance
Everything you wanted to know about personal finance, but unabashedly queer and radically inclusive — Dunn’s ready to help you get your shit together and stop feeling alone with your money troubles.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Going South
Finding queer southern lit, how the queer writers of the ’60s and ’70s shape Patrisse Cullors’s political work, the best of 2018 book lists and more.
50 of the Best Feminist Books of 2018
Here are 50 of the best books from this year that are by and about women, feminism or gender and related intersectional issues. There seem to be strong recurring themes of dystopia, anger, and navigating violent structures of power. What a coincidence!
Things I Read That I Love #278: Drunk In The Taco Bell Drive Thru, I Kiss It Directly On Its Bony Mouth
Topics include taxidermy, a child sex trafficking ring engineered by a very rich assh*le, Heathers (the movie), murder, a cruise for cryptocurrency lovers, Lolita, weird online shopping, the Jewish American Princess and so much more!
Surviving Utopia: Finding Hope in Larissa Lai’s Piercing Novel “The Tiger Flu”
Life – fierce, painful, unyielding, complicated – bursts from every page of The Tiger Flu, which tells a story of love (and hate) between women in a futuristic world overrun by corporate technocracy and the effects of climate change.
9 of the Best Witchy, Astrological or Otherwise Woo Books of 2018
Whether you’re into some kind of witchery yourself or you’d rather keep it fictional, thanks, here’s an overview of some of the best books from 2018.
50 of the Best LGBT Books of 2018
There were a lot of awesome 2018 queer books. Here are the year’s best!
8 Fiction Books with Non-Binary Characters
Can you believe we haven’t talked about books with non-binary characters yet? Here are eight great ones, mostly written by non-binary authors.
Things I Read That I Love #277: When Love Contains Dirty Sex and Not Without Humor
Topics include The National Enquirer, Anne Frank, Larry Nasser and USA gymnastics, how to save a life, our lives on a mattress, food writing, ballet, teen tv dramas and The Oregon Trail.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Toxic
The word of the year, the curiosity crisis in schools, the art of seeing, and more.
Five Steamy Lesbian Reads for the Holidays
Are they literary heavy hitters for which you’ll need a thesaurus and previous experience reading Nietzsche? No! Are they fun romps through a winter wonderland with queer characters? Yes! Are said characters often trapped in places and hate each other at first but then fall in love and there’s really no risk except that which makes the love even more defined? Yes!
“They Want Trans Shit to Be a PSA”: A Trans Woman Writers’ Roundtable
“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”
KaeLyn Rich’s “Girls Resist!” Is a Guidebook for Intersectional Feminist Superheroes
“It’s the urgency of being a girl, in the broadest sense of that admittedly binary term, of being a marginalized person and knowing in your heart that you have the power to change your world.”
Korean-American Bestselling Author R.O. Kwon Is Bisexual, Has Flawless Signature Eyeshadow
Bestselling author of The Incendiaries is out as bisexual, proud, and giving us big feelings about eyeshadow and representation.
Things I Read That I Love #276: Thelma, Too, Has an Unquenchable Thirst
Topics include Erotic Photo Hunt, Dorothy Allison, school lunch, alt-right extremists, The Spotted Pig, “People in Trouble,” murder on the Appalachian trail, and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Against Prison Book Bans
Limiting access to books in prisons is bad for everyone, what happens when you wreck a library book, the best time to write, and more!
“Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice” Draws Real-as-F*ck Maps of Justice and Care
A true map, it never says: this is the way to go, what to do. Instead, Piepzna-Samarasinha tells us what has worked for some people at some times, what could be done better, and also what went super wrong.