Fall 2016 Book Preview: 48 Queer and Feminist Books To Add To Your Reading List
Welcome to your list of queer and/or feminist books coming out in fall 2016. New Zadie Smith, Ivan Coyote, Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood, Bae Suah and more.
Things I Read That I Love #209: Take Your Ghastly Revolutionary Ideas Out To The Garden
Topics include Munchausen by proxy and murder, Shop Jeen, every restaurant in Epcot Center, Joanne the Scammer, housing segregation, little people in Hollywood and so much more!
“Small Beauty” is a Big Deal for Queer Lit and Trans Girls: An Interview With Author Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
Wilson-Yang deftly weaves and unweaves the threads of narrative tropes that have come to dominate the telling of the stories of trans women, lesbians, migrants, and Chinese North Americans.
18 More Classic Literature Characters Who Will Bamboozle You With Their Gay Gayness
Is there room in your boat, Anne Shirley?
6 Awesome Books About Women Kicking Ass In STEM
Finish out your summer with some queer engineer approved picks.
Anne of Green Gables Is Obviously Bisexual
Netflix announced an Anne of Green Gables remake today. They better get it right about Anne and Diana being in love!
Lez Liberty Lit: Books On A Bicycle
Emojis aren’t destroying language, reading lists of books by indigenous authors, trans women in literature and more.
Things I Read That I Love #208: To Be Free Of Other People’s Bullshit Is To Be Truly Free
Topics include the American Shopping Mall, going to Disneyworld alone, the Tamir Rice case, a killer in Yosemite, aesthetic homogeneity and so much more.
Drawn to Comics: Lynda Barry’s “The Greatest of Marlys” Knocks You Back Into Adolescence
Just like life itself, and especially childhood, “The Greatest of Marlys” is a complete roller coaster of emotions and experiences that takes you all over the place in unexpected ways.
Read A F*cking Book: “Go Deep” by Leigh Matthews
The latest installment in the All Out Vancouver series brings back all our favorite characters — and some heavy themes.
Lez Liberty Lit: Permission To Not Finish That Book You Hate
Queer books set at camp, tips for reading and walking, how to read more books and permission to not finish the ones you start and more.
Read a F*cking Book: “The Regulars” is a Feminist Fairy Tale, Kinda
Three twenty-something friends living in New York City accidentally acquire a mysterious liquid substance called Pretty, that, when imbibed, turns the drinker into a physically augmented version of themselves. Shenanigans ensue.
Things I Read That I Love #207: The Ideal Woman Has No Appetitie
Topics include suicide in the Mall of America, John Cho, police, genetic sexual attraction, Diane Arbus, Donald Trump’s hotels, musical.ly and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Dog-Eared Days of Summer
Mental health zines, libraries’ political and social power, what counts as a diverse book and more.
Things I Read That I Love #206: At Last I Saw A Woman, Younger Than I’ve Ever Been
Topics include Black Lives Matter, catching up with the prisoners whose sentences were commuted by Obama, OJ Simpson circa 2001, Marie Kondo, Bill Cosby, Miami Beach and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit: One Hundred And One Books To Read
The oldest library in the world, why emoji don’t mean linguistic death, a history of zines, what to add to your queer summer reading pile and more.
(Some of) The Best of The Toast, According to Autostraddle
To The Toast!
Things I Read That I Love #205: It May Not Be ‘Cool’ To Be Sad, But It’s Cool To Be Yourself.”
Topics include Judith Butler, domestic goddesses, the for-profit prison industry, what Uber drivers make, Abigail Fishers, sexism, sad girl fashion and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #100: One Hundred Bookshelves Full of Queer Lit
Books to read for Pride, searching for representation, cotton candy queer lit, books as taxidermy, books and reading and food and eating, and more.
Things I Read That I Love #204: Her Boob Is So Soft It Makes Velvet Feel Like Splinters.
Topics include Kim Kardashian, Hillary Clinton, the (formerly) most liberated woman in America, Blac Chyna, LinkedIn, sex crimes and more.