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Literature

Things I Read That I Love #270: You Will Be Left With Nothing But Blank Flat Envy

Topics include the future of reproduction, getting sober and realizing that you’re trans, rape kits and rape culture, the McDonalds Monopoly heist, high-brow true crime, tiny hotels, food delivery theory and so much more!

Riese August 17, 2018 5 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Literary Manspreading, Now for Women Too

Fighting words about literary organizational systems. Plus animals that break into libraries, writers on the books that inspire them, new poetry from Indigenous women and more.

Ryan Yates August 16, 2018 4 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #269: How A Gimmick Had Tumbled Into a Real Desire

Topics include Goop, Sex and the City, Les Moonves, a waterslide tragedy, IRL livestreaming, lesbian cruising, Six Feet Under, Benihana, rough sex and more!

Riese August 3, 2018 6 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Library Lovin’

Why conservatives are afraid of libraries, what to read that’s out in August, why writing matters in an age of despair and more.

Ryan Yates August 2, 2018 3 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #268: Rolling On a Filthy Bathroom’s Floor Dressed In a Ball Gown

Topics include Lindsay Lohan & David Lynch, politicizing sexual desire, murder, Jewish nostalgia & Dirty Dancing, Anthony Bourdain, Slenderman, escaping Warren Jeffs and so much more!

Riese July 20, 2018 10 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Anything Can Be A Beach Read

Tarot and psychotherapy, reading anything at any time of year, give yourself permission not to finish that book you don’t really want to finish and more.

Ryan Yates July 19, 2018 3 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Disney’s “Hocus Pocus” Sequel Is a Teenage Lesbian Love Story!

Disney has retold their most famous Halloween story with a trio that’s comprised of two people of color, one of whom is queer; and the queer daughter of Max and Allison. It’s silly and spooky, and it’s an unabashed love story.

Heather Hogan July 19, 2018 14 Comments
Book Lists

8 Books That Feature Queer Jewish Women to Read Right Now

Here are eight awesome books with queer Jewish women characters, from YA to literary fiction to historical fiction and more!

Casey July 16, 2018 14 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #267: The Internet Can Turn a Stupid Flirtation Into The Age of Godd*mn Innocence If You Let It

Topics include tumblr, reading Joan Didion in California restaurants, Death Valley, Smarties, crime reporting, Johnny Depp, murder, murder and murder!

Riese July 6, 2018 7 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: The Queer Erotic Debut Novel of the Summer

How queer writers create queer stories, the history of writing as a history of book burning, queer bookstores to visit and more.

Ryan Yates July 5, 2018 2 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #266: A Wikipedia-Hole From Which I Barely Emerged Alive.

Topics include Netflix, a convenient dinner, surprisingly a lot of hockey, SKAM Austin, Queer Eye, chicken tenders, kissing, the new Mormans, Netflix, Vice, OneTaste, and more!

Riese June 22, 2018 14 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Queer People Deserve Happy Endings Too

It’s fun to delete stuff. Plus: feminist zine culture, a Lumberjanes quiz, the 2017 VIDA count results and more.

Ryan Yates June 21, 2018 8 Comments
Book Lists

8 Books with Bi or Homoromantic Asexual Women Characters

Books with ace homo/bi/panromantic women characters do exist! Here’s a list of eight of these very real and awesome books in genres like romance, fantasy, YA and more!

Casey June 15, 2018 18 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #265: He Was Never Imaginary, He Just Had Bad Timing

Topics include Christian films, NXivm, Caitlyn Jenner, Sesame Street, blood stain pattern analysis, XXXTentacion, The Real World, con-artist Anna Delvey, plus-size clothing and so much more!

Riese June 8, 2018 4 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Language as Control

Language is a way to exercise control. Also some Pride reading lists, three Latinx zines, dying languages and more.

Ryan Yates June 7, 2018 3 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

“My Lady’s Choosing” Is the Bisexual Jane Austen Choose Your Own Adventure Novel of Your Wildest Dreams

Lady Evangeline is as capable as ripping your bodice as Sir Benedict Granville, and that’s just one of the brilliant things about this interactive romance novel.

Heather Hogan June 4, 2018 7 Comments
Book Lists

24 Queer YA Books Coming Out This Summer and Beyond

The queer YA books you’ll want to read at the beach, the park, and everywhere else this summer!

Casey May 30, 2018 7 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

I Effing Love “Drawn to Sex: The Basics” by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

Accessible queer sex education, now available for everyone.

A.E. Osworth May 29, 2018 2 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #264: Your Body Was Just Goofing Off and Drinking Sugar

Topics include journalism, Gloria Allred, Joan Didion, Ryan Murphy, MURDER, We Rate Dogs, Reading Rainbow, Raffi, movies about qpoc, internet writing, Action Park and more!

Riese May 25, 2018 8 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Hypnotic Decay

How lesbian pulp fiction saved lives, Michelle Tea’s Against Memoir, gay love letters, what counts as “well read” and more.

Ryan Yates May 24, 2018 1 Comment
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