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LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Casey August 28, 2017 7 Comments
Book Lists LGBT History

26 Triumphantly ’90s Lesbian Book Covers

What a colorful decade for us all!

Riese August 24, 2017 56 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #244: How We Want To Taste, How We Wish To Be Known.

Topics include women in the KKK, the Confederate flag, women’s magazines as aspirational employment centers, smartphones & teenagers, Captain EO, murder, the stories we tell ourselves and more.

Riese August 18, 2017 6 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Silent Book Club

A silent book club, women Vikings, small-press books out in August, Native people in literature, headless women on book covers and more!

Ryan Yates August 17, 2017 8 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews TV Feature

“Steven Universe: Art & Origins” Offers Us a Glimpse Behind the Scenes of TV’s Queerest Cartoon

It’s an important thing to learn about and acknowledge the people who make the things we love, and this book gives Steven Universe fans an opportunity to do just that.

Mey August 11, 2017 4 Comments
Book Lists

8 Books Featuring Queer Parents To Read This Summer

The feel-good books centering queer parents you should read right now.

Casey August 8, 2017 10 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #243: You Feel Like This Woman Is Crawling Towards You

Topics include The New Hollywood, Oakland losing its artist communities, LaCroix, colorism, content marketing, queers in the country, Liz Smith, the family secrets that emerge from DNA testing and A TURKEY THAT LIVED ON MY STREET.

Riese August 4, 2017 10 Comments
Literature

15 Lesbian Pulp Fiction Novels You Can Judge by the Covers

“A delicate theme, treated honestly and candidly.”

Molly Priddy August 4, 2017 43 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Never Be The Same

Language and oppression, new trans books, organizing your shelves, zine culture and more.

Ryan Yates August 3, 2017 8 Comments
Book Lists

8 Black Lesbian Speculative Fiction Books To Read Right Now

Where to find Black queer lady leads in dystopian, science fiction, magical realism, and paranormal fiction.

Casey July 25, 2017 16 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #242: One By One I Am Letting Go Of The Things That Killed Me

Topics include murder, Uber, R Kelly, people getting lost and dying in National Parks, the child molestation scandal on the isolated Pitcairn Island, fast fashion, how Gotham gave us Donald Trump and so much more!

Riese July 21, 2017 8 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Dinosaur Flowers

The museum that texts you modern art, What We Lose, what to read, burning your work and more.

Ryan Yates July 20, 2017 5 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews LGBT History

Fill In Your Butch History With This Coloring Book

Why learn about butch lesbian herstory when you can learn about butch lesbian herstory by way of babes?

Ryan Yates July 18, 2017 10 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #241: She Didn’t At All Like Being Charmed Out Of A Rageful State

Topics include the heroin epidemic in West Virginia, really expensive weddings, eczema, sexual abuse in a Baptist mission, Panda Express, teaching while black, A League of Their Own, the murders of TWOC in Detroit and so much more.

Riese July 7, 2017 31 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Missing Girls

What you should read this summer, “woke” is in the dictionary now, queer history books in high school and more!

Ryan Yates July 6, 2017 5 Comments
Book Features Geekery

Drawn to Comics: Talking to Grace Ellis About Queer Fantasy Coffee Shop AU Comic Moonstruck!

“It’s a really queer book. And don’t worry! We’re going to take good care of your spooky babies, even when the going gets rough in the story. They’re in good, safe hands.”

Mey July 4, 2017 5 Comments
Book Lists

8 Books That Feature Bisexual Women (And Don’t Focus On Their Sex Lives)

Here are eight books about adult bisexual ladies going about their full, complex lives. There are definitely some sexy times to look forward to but sex isn’t the focus of the narrative.

Casey June 29, 2017 43 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

A Lifetime of Aftermath: Roxane Gay’s “Hunger” Dares You Not to Look Away

In a time when the word “healing” feels thinner than ever, affixed as it is to too many pictures of skinny, silhouetted yogis on beaches, we need to reacquaint ourselves with the severity of that process. This book is a generous offering to a society that may not know what to do with it.

Aisha June 23, 2017 12 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #240: It’s So Frustrating To Me That I’m Not a Rock Star

Topics include Rachel Maddow, Chelsea Manning, the new Ken dolls, “Get Out,” mobile homes, “writing Iranian-American,” Elizabeth Wurtzel, the GOOP summit and more!

Riese June 23, 2017 12 Comments
Sandy, a young Asian-American woman, poses for a selfie in front of the Boston Public Library
Book Features

Queer Crip Love Fest: In Control of My Own Narrative

“It’s interesting and refreshing to be in this time period where authors are resisting in their own way.”

Carrie June 22, 2017 5 Comments
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