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.”
Lez Liberty Lit: Collecting Queer History
Handwriting doesn’t matter, punk and magic in art, preserving lesbian pulp fiction, breaking up with a bad book and more.
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.