Read A F*cking Book: “In Full Velvet,” by Jenny Johnson
Immerse yourself in these poems and prepare to come out raw and clean.
(Trans) Love and Other Scars: An Interview with Torrey Peters, Author of Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones
“Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones” is the kind that shakes and wakes that brave, mad, dangerous girl I used to be.
Lez Liberty Lit: Swoon and Swish and Style
Greenland’s queer literary star, takes on contemporary feminism, book club history, bookstores in the resistance and more.
14 Comics That Celebrate Female Friendship For Galentine’s Day
These comics and graphic novels make women’s friendships the focus.
8 Queer Sci-Fi Books To Read Right Now
From hard and soft sci-fi to military sci-fi to space opera: here are eight (gay) books you should add to your reading list.
Things I Read That I Love #221: I Should Very Gladly Have Portrayed Myself Here Entire and Wholly Naked
Topics include Anna Nicole Smith, the DeVos family, Stephen King’s IT, Will & Grace, MURDER, Snow White’s Scary Adventures, miniatures, people who remember everything and more!
Roxane Gay’s “Difficult Women”: The Necessary Ugliness in Getting There
Gay is far more honest than most about the weird ways we actually solve for love. The necessary ugliness in getting there.
Lez Liberty Lit: Wonder and Humility
Reading as a cure for monotony, boredom, and almost-death; books about living in oppressive religious cults; what Roxane Gay is reading right now and more.
Gaby Dunn And Allison Raskin Hate Everyone But You
Check out this rad new queer YA book by your fave YouTube odd couple, Gaby Dunn and Allison Raskin!
Women and LGBTQ People Will be Hit Hardest by NYT’s Decision to Kill the Comics Best Seller Lists
This is a big blow to a part of the publishing world that is often regarded as “books for kids” or something less than “real literature.” It’s an especially big blow to marginalized people.
Things I Read That I Love #220: The Jaws That Closed Only To Chew Gum
Topics include Jared Kushner, Mike Pence, Trump Country, health care, CULT MURDERS, The Spur Posse, Tiffany from America’s Next Top Model, Sqirl and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: The New Comics Sans
Black artists and America, (your) feelings about typography, writers resisting, a history of feminist bookstores, representation in comics and more.
8 Lesbian BDSM Novels to Curl Your Toes (and Maybe Melt Your Heart)
Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.
45 Queer and Feminist Books You Need To Read in Early 2017
Everything you want to read.
Things I Read That I Love #219: We Were Good As Married In My Mind
Topics include ’90s nerd masculinity, One Day At A Time, a grandmother who liked poison, Backpage, the Gawker lawsuit, Donald Trump in 1999, John Waters’ childhood home, corporate vet clinics, puppy mills and so much more!
“American Hookup” Trades Moral Panic for Real Talk About Sex in College
This book is a must for college students, sex nerds, and activists alike — especially if your Trump resistance involves sex education, sexual assault prevention, or reproductive rights.
“Goodnight Moon” Is Gay: Margaret Wise Brown Was A Bisexual Badass, Y’all
Goodnight Moon started out as a sad gay love poem.
Lez Liberty Lit: Being Difficult
Love for Roxane Gay, Joan Didion’s literary descendants, the end of the 2016 book lists, a cheat sheet for your ereader and more.
Rebel Girls: “The Crunk Feminist Collection” is the New Year’s Read Feminists Need
This is the year the resistance takes shape. And for feminists looking for a roadmap, The Crunk Feminist Collection is the newly-printed guidebook that sets the path.
Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2016
Read these f*cking books.