Read A F-cking Book: SJ Sindu’s “Marriage Of A Thousand Lies”
Lucky’s been walking a thin line. She desperately wants to maintain a relationship with her family, and especially with her mother, but she also aches to live as an out lesbian.
In Conversation With Sarah Schulman: “They’re Being Taught That Control Is Freedom”
“This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing — I mean, this is the definition of injustice.”
Things I Read That I Love #239: All Of Us In The Same Car, Outside The Same Mall
Topics include the loneliness of Donald Trump, queer suicidality, Hillary Clinton, Ghost World, the “literary brat pack,” Roxane Gay, ’90s pre/adolescence and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Does Anyone Know How You Stop Crying
Dystopias are everywhere, Urban Dictionary is racist and misogynist, newly discovered Sylvia Plath poems and more.
How to Live in Paris, Get Kissed a Lot, Write a Memoir About It
“By the end of the seventies, women were in fashion: every Parisian woman, gay or straight, fell in love with women as if it were the most natural thing in the world.”
8 Urban Fantasy Books That Feature Queer Women
These gritty and glittery queer urban fantasy novels feature sex-work activism, genetic experiments, polyamory, erotic antique-postcard painting, sibling rivalry and more — and a ton of queer women characters.
Things I Read That I Love #238: Mythological Teen Goddesses Haunting Texas Supermarkets.
Topics include Twin Peaks, the Menendez Brothers murders, white supremacy, the artwashing of Boyle Heights, Richard Nixon, waterparks, “The Perils of Privilege” and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Fragile
Meme historians, the necessary fragility of feminism and radical politics, poetry a fatal, first-person queer writing as a way to shift power and more.
Emilie Wapnick’s How To Be Everything
Why pick between your passions when you can design a life based on ALL of them?
KOKUMO’s Galactic Bitch-Slap to the Literary Establishment
KOKUMO blasts through the bullshit rhetoric and tokenism that too-often engulf queer and trans communities in order to expose the raw struggle to survive at their heart.
Lez Liberty Lit: Never Neutral
Fat women deserve space in fairytales, magic vs math, why calling it “confessional writing” is sexist and more.
Now Is A Good Time To Get Into Patricia Lockwood
Priestdaddy, the poet’s new coming-of-age memoir, has a lot of twists and a lot of power.
Things I Read That I Love #237: An Alternative Story In Which We Can Find Love Anywhere We Want To Find It
Topics include US Gymnastics, eating disorders and heartbreak, New Orleans’ racial undertones, Lil Wayne’s prison memoir, Amy Grant, S-Town, Eileen Myles, Roe V Wade and so much more!
“My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” and the Queerness of Horror
Emil Ferris’s debut graphic novel, about a ten-year-old half-Mexican tomboy who is obsessed with horror films and detective comics, explores the intersection between gender, sexuality, race and class.
Drawn to Comics: 15-Year-Old Maggie Thrash Interviews Herself in This Brand New Exclusive “Honor Girl” Excerpt
“After that summer, all I wanted was reassurance — not from other people necessarily, but from myself. I would have loved to talk to my adult self and ask her a million questions: Am I ok? Do I make it out of my teens alive? Who do I turn out to be, in the end?”
Read A F*cking Book Club: Let’s Talk About The Handmaid’s Tale
Everything on the internet you need to read about The Handmaid’s Tale, plus our discussion!
Lez Liberty Lit: Kinda Gay, Or Really Gay?
Grammar as privilege, cardboard presses, ranking fictional drugs, disability in sci-fi and fantasy and more.
8 Books Featuring Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women
Looking for clearly queer Asian and Pacific Islander women in fiction? Look no further.
Things I Read That I Love #236: Perhaps One Day We Can Meet and Cry, Face to Face
Topics include Rachel Dolezal, transformative justice, Coachella, true love that isn’t true love at all, a new kind of “crowdsourcing,” Slack, and so much more!
We Need to Talk About Angela Calomiris, Lesbian FBI Informant
“It was one of those rare moments in American history when there was something worse than being a lesbian, and that was being a Communist.”