Results for: trans fantasy books
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The Book That Made Me A Slut: Andrea Lawlor’s “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl”
Trans people love to joke about having been every letter of the acronym but Paul is all of them at once. He is the ultimate non-binary fantasy — or at least my ultimate non-binary fantasy.
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The System Operates As Designed
Burnout is not simple tiredness. It is malaise and unexplained pain. It is a theft of spirit and the creative body.
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 101: February 2023
Can we open it with “The Paris Review can blow us” and then just like…not explain?
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Anonymous Sex Diary: A Couple Rekindles Their Sex Life with “Intimacy Boot Camp”
We’re both trying to avoid the lesbian bed death trope, hoping to be remembered in history as lovers, not “really good friends.”
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us: #48
“I want you to know that three different people in my life sent me this video the day it dropped. I have not been the same since.”
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The Bloody History of the Lesbian Vampire in 20 Films
The phrase “lesbian vampire” might be one of the most titillating combinations of words in the English language.
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Grace Lavery on Her New Memoir “Please Miss,” Sex Writing, and the Trans Glamour of Nicole Kidman
“When one is trying to write about sex, if you’re doing it right, something happens in the prose that is unpredictable and kind of wild.”
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Cruising for Rivendell: What Draws Queer People to High Fantasy?
“I think people who are seekers can just really want something so badly to be real… but then you’re almost willing to do anything to make it real.”
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Eight Queer Cozy Baking Mysteries I Wish Existed
So I made them up.
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Oscars 2023: Two Queers Discuss the Pretty Gay 95th Academy Awards
“Does the Academy just love war? They want to GET INTO THE TRENCHES. Well not me. I prefer not to trench. Unless it is Lydia Tár’s trench coat.”
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The 50 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
We believe that the best lesbian movies rank among the very best movies, period.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Stories Have Power
The power of queer coming-of-age stories, even when you’ve already come; the myth of objectivity; writing about the body; and more.
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Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Episodes of 2022
Surprise! A League of Their Own keeps winning!
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Boobs on Your Tube: Abby’s Taking Lockdown as Hard as You on “Work In Progress”
Also this week, Covid comes to Work In Progress and American Horror Story was actually pretty scary!
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Presenting the Winners of the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards!
We might not come with a fancy in-person ceremony or physical trophies, but as mainstream awards continue to overlook groundbreaking LGBTQ+ series, we vitally fill a gap in the television awards pomp and circumstance.
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“Marvelous Mrs Maisel” Finally Addresses Susie’s Sexuality, Sort Of
Midge finally notices what we noticed long ago — Susie’s yet to get a romantic storyline — and thus our plucky heroine takes Susie on a field trip to the lesbian bar.
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EXCERPT: In “Thin Skin,” Jenn Shapland Considers What It Means to Live a Childfree Queer Life
In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.
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Queer Books Across America: Incredible Lesbian and Queer Novels and Memoirs Set in Every State
Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.
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Check Out the A+ Community Bookshelf!
We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.
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TIFF 2022: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve watched forty features and the first two episodes of a TV show. Yes, forty. Consider this list a reference, a collection of short reviews for the rest of the year’s buzzed about films and films that should be buzzed about.