Things I Read That I Love #214: It Was Time To Leave The Noise And The Bodies Behind
Topics include Dominos pizza, Cracker Barrel, leaving New York City, an alcoholic sportswriter, Stitch’s Great Escape, Kesha and SO MUCH MORE
The Ultimate Maggie Nelson Reading List
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts doesn’t have an index, so I made one for it. I can promise that it is both longer and shorter than you think.
Normal Blood Feelings: 5 Dark (and Sometimes Sexy) Queer Vampire Stories
If witches are a way to tell stories about women and power, vampires are a way to tell stories about women and sex.
Lez Liberty Lit: Nothing Is Static
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Beyoncé, digital accessibility and representation as an ongoing project, every spell used in Harry Potter, Halloween reading and more.
Things I Read That I Love #213: Can These Desires and Needs Survive Together
Topics include Dress for Success, OJ Simpson, open marriages, Star Tours, what men love about war, lesbians in the ’90s, a white supremacist who went to college and changed his mind and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Why Have Privacy When You Can Have Rage
No women won the Nobel Prize, on women’s privacy and how Elena Ferrante got doxxed, how witches are a way to write about women’s power, lesbian YA covers through the years and more.
Conversation with White Friends: Sara Quin, Amber Dawn, Rae Spoon & Dannielle Owens-Reid
Why is that people of colour have to bear the brunt of speaking out about racism while white people enjoy the privilege of remaining silent? What happens when the tables are turned?
38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark
AfterEllen is a part of a legacy of brilliant publications created by passionate lesbian, queer and bisexual women that unfortunately no longer exist, but were cool for a while.
Things I Read That I Love #212: She’s A Little Trigger-Happy On The Misanthropic Rage
Topics include Sea World Ohio, “Fixer Upper,” Blue Apron, Bret Easton Ellis, the Golden Suicides, a con-woman, this really cool essay about ambition and SO MUCH MORE!
GIVEAWAY: Snag a Copy of Grace Bonney’s New Book, “In the Company of Women!”
Grace Bonney, designer extraordinaire, has a gift for you: In the Company of Women, a coffee table collection profiling a diverse range of creative women about their work. Comment on this post TODAY to win a copy!
Lez Liberty Lit: Take A Break When You Need One
Feminist coloring books, favorite bi+ books of 2016 (so far), publishing algorithms, when sometimes you read less than other times and more.
8 Books Featuring Lesbian May/December Romance To Curl Up With Tonight
Did you love Susan Choi’s My Education, about a sexy student/professor love affair? Here are eight more books you won’t want to miss.
Things I Read That I Love #211: Either It’s All Those Drugs I Took In The ’60s Or I’m Really In Love
Topics include Atlantic City, Air Force One on 9/11, John Hughes movies, Edward Albee, Star Trek fandom, porn, kids on the internet and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: What Is Women’s Lit?
Reading bored white girls, queer YA, Power and Magic, what women’s lit is anyway and more.
Empowering the Feminists of the Future: A Q&A with “Powered by Girl” Author Lyn Mikel Brown
I chatted with Lyn this week about the book, youth activism, and intergenerational activism. She had a lot of amazing things to say, spoiler alert.
Things I Read That I Love #210: The New Sofa Has Nothing To Fear From Me
Topics include Flint, the framing of a PTA mom, perfume, Roger Ailes, the true crime genre, the Upright Citizens Brigade, Miss America, domestic spheres, Winona Ryder and more!
Read A F*cking Book: M-E Girard’s Novel “Girl Mans Up” Powerfully Explores Minefields of Gender
“Girard’s writing is special in the way it speaks the language of our lived experience of moving through and within gender — inching, painfully slow, changeable, delightful, sexy, and made manifest in a thousand tiny ways, often between people and between words, unspoken.”
“Eat, Pray, Love” Author Elizabeth Gilbert Comes Out On Facebook
This is a happy story and also a sad story. Gilbert realized she was in love with her best friend, Rayya Elias, after Elias was diagnosed with liver and pancreatic cancer.
Baby-Sitters Club Creator Ann M. Martin is Queer, How Did I Not Know This
She also identifies as “a Mary Ann.”
Sara June Woods Wants to Write About Being Fucking Weird: The Autostraddle Interview
“I think I feel a little less desperation to be liked and a little more “fuck you if you don’t like me.” I think I enjoy flaunting my monstrousness.”