Lez Liberty Lit: Madness, Witches, and Burned Queer Books
A literature of women’s madness, witchy books to read right now, why buying books won’t save independent bookstores and more.
10 Books on Voting, Elections and Government to Get You Ready for the Midterms
Informed citizens unite!
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!
Mary Lambert Is Brutally Vulnerable in Her New Poetry Book, “Shame Is An Ocean I Swim Across”
Mary Lambert talked to Autostraddle about vulnerability, the impossibility of separating the art from the artist, and her incredible new book of poems.
Things I Read That I Love #274: Sheila Was Such a Fucking Bitch It Was Awesome
Topics include The Good Place, The English Patient, child abuse, Dr. Death (again, sorry!), working at Disneyland, “radical sex,” ’90s webzines and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit Is Into Unlikable Women
Loving unlikable women in literature, talking about horror, new poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin, how to start making zines, and more.
8 Books Featuring Disabled Queer Women Characters
Enjoy these eight books, mostly fiction, about queer disabled women characters!
Things I Read That I Love #273: Books In Which Measurable Cerebral Activity Is Virtually Absent.
Topics include Hello Kitty, female TV detectives, sexual assault, Maya Rudolph, Puerto Rico becoming a tax haven for the rich, obesity, parties in the 80s, and more!
10 Favorite Books by Bisexual Women to Read For Bisexual Awareness Week
Spanning genre from fiction to essays to memoir, these books are vibrant, boundary-breaking, and as intriguing as they are affirming. I strongly recommend curling up with one of these in your favorite café to celebrate Bisexual Visiblility Day today and all this week — settle in for some miso soup (what Ruby, the heroine of Eating Chinese Food Naked, drinks as comfort food) with maybe some biryani and chai for the second course (from Corona, by Bushra Rehman) and read some of these literary works.
Lez Liberty Lit: Everything Is Content
How feminist bookstores changed history, why public libraries are getting less classist, mental models for queerness and more.
Things I Read That I Love #272: Teenagers Find Adult-Free Places The Way Rain Runs Downhill
Topics include Dr. Death aka Christopher Duntsch, old-school video cameras, the ballroom scene, murder, Supershe island, Why the President Must Be Impeached, the death of Scout Schultz, porn pictures shows and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Cannot Resist the Urge to Clean
An everyday trans literature, discipline and creative freedom, fall books previews, lesbian feminist sci-fi and more.
8 Self-Help Books about Lesbian Relationships
Here are eight non-fiction self-help books about lesbian relationships, partnerships, marriage, and dating!
Megan Falley’s “Drive Here and Devastate Me” Is a Love Letter to the Queer Community
Drive Here and Devastate Me, queer femme author Megan Falley’s fourth collection of poetry, is a love letter to the queer community. We talked with Megan about her writing process, femme invisibility, body politics, and of course, love.
The Real-Life LGBT Outlaws of the American West and Writing Queerness Back to Historical Fiction
Each of these small bits of history made me hungry for more information, and brought home how many stories — especially those about queer folks — have been lost, compared to those few that have survived. I wanted to imagine queer people where they must have been, in shipyards and customs offices and coastal boom towns. I wanted them to be in love, to be gender outlaws and survivors, to triumph.
“In Intimate Detail” Is the Singular Guide to Lingerie – and It’s Queer-Inclusive
“I’ve had conversations with brands where they’ve been very explicit about who their customers weren’t. They weren’t plus size people. They weren’t queer people. They weren’t people of color. And those attitudes affect me as well as a black, queer woman.”
Things I Read That I Love #271: Academic Celebrity Soaks Up Blood Like a Pair of Thinx
Topics include the Avital Ronnell case, “blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia,” airplane hijacking, disaster tourism, Otto Warmbier, Myers-Briggs, the war on drugs, stripping in Portland, what it’s like to be black and work in fashion, the War on Drugs and more!
“Wild Mares” Is a Story of Women’s Land and the Midwestern Lesbians Who Loved It (and Each Other)
“At the end of the prologue, I had to put the book down, because I had broken out in ugly, heaving sobs on a Monday night in the dog days of summer, after a hot and heated and emotionally heavy July eclipse, drinking a glass of rose in my apartment in Harlem.”
Lez Liberty Lit: Kink and History
A new history of BDSM. Plus women in translation, the Asian and Asian American literature explosion and more.
Where Are the Welcome Signs? Finding Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Community in Unexpected Places
Why is it sometimes hardest to find other queer individuals in places where they seem to be everywhere? The new book, “How Places Make Us,” takes us into the lives of lesbian, bisexual and queer residents in four small cities and reveals how and why LBQ individuals forge especially strong ties in unlikely places.