Read These 8 Works of Intersex Fiction Right Now
Eight stories that feature intersex characters for you to read right now.
Things I Read That I Love #254: For That Secret Knowledge Of Which Dykes To Watch Out For
Topics include Missy Elliot, donuts, sexual harassment at the Ford plant, Valerie Solanas, Silicon Valley orgies, murder, “clean eating,” paper and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Go Visit Violet Valley Bookstore
A new queer feminist bookstore in Mississippi, how to read more this year, what to read more of, and more.
65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018
Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.
Things I Read That I Love #253: Surrendering To The Trash Aesthetic
Topics include screwed millenials, America Online going offline, lana del ray / the love witch / i love dick, the reckoning, photo-editing apps, wrongly accused, Plimouth Plantation, the most hated poet in Portland, murder, and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: It’s Almost Over
Literary fiction is out, unicorns are in, a master list of queer poets of color, all the best book lists of 2017 and more.
The Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2017
2017 has been pretty awesome for a ton of new queer and/or feminist things to read! Here are some of the best.
8 Soft Femme Memoirs for Your Femme But Not Too Femmey Needs
The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.
Emily Danforth Is Drawn Back to Montana and We’re Drawn Back to “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” (the Movie!)
I didn’t get to be at the set for the whole shoot, because I was teaching last year. I went once with my wife Erica and we got to go for a few days. I was in a daze of disbelief, touching people like, “Are you real?”
The Definitive List of Places Carol and Therese Ate in “The Price of Salt”
“Therese and Carol drink beer and coffee at the Palm Court in the Plaza Hotel with Richard, Therese’s pitiful and jealous boyfriend, who pays for their drinks.”
Things I Read That I Love #252: I Loved the Helpless People I Loved
Topics include the Santa Ana winds, murder, Weinstein’s Complicity Machine, sandwiches, black residents targeted by jaywalking (etc) tickets in Florida, “trailer trash,” IKEA cafeterias and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Write Your Own Escape Routes
This year’s Bad Sex Awards, Black women poets speaking truth to power, learning how to be alone, the problem with categories in literature and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: As Simple As Being
Women writers have friendships, too; women having control over their bodies; a poem from Eileen Myles and more.
Things I Read That I Love #251: To Stand in a Shadowless Field in Three Layers of Tweed
Topics include being Midwestern, Second Life, restorative nostalgia, getting an abortion in South Dakota, Chuck E Cheese, Andrew Cunanan, Manson bloggers and so much more!
How YA Novels Unexpectedly Enabled My Own Bisexual Revelation
I wonder why the story of a bisexual teenage boy is the one that allowed me to explicitly consider my identity as a bisexual adult woman for the first time.
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.
Things I Read That I Love #250: Their Weirdness Gives Them Psychic Powers and Untouchable Brilliance
In addition to telling you about this app I like, this week’s TIRTL involves stories on topics including Harvey Weinstein, a thriving small town in Iowa, girls doing murder in the woods, mall kiosks, going missing in Alaska, Sarah Polley, Power Point and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: We Are Never Lonely In Language
Reading Audre Lorde after Charlottesville, gendered terms in language when you’re non-binary, scary little girls in literature and more.
“Check Please” Creator Ngozi Ukazu Chats with Tillie Walden About Her New Book “Spinning”
You know what one of my most common questions at school visits is? “How do you come out?” Kids actually ask me this, in front of their peers and teachers. It’s unbelievable to me, it’s so brave.
8 Queer Speculative Short Story Collections
Love queer speculative fiction but don’t have the time or energy to read novels or series? Then these eight collections and anthologies of queer speculative short fiction are for you!