Results for: Feel good
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Poetry is Dead’s Queer Issue Speaks Directly To Your Heart
Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, Poetry is Dead Magazine’s Queer Issue is pleasant evidence to the contrary.
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Lez Liberty Lit #9: The Golden Age Is Now
In this edition of Lez Liberty Lit: the golden age for writers, nostalgia, literary cartography, bookshelves as diaries,
“I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus” and the end of the world. -
A Custom Fit: So Many Ways To Read A Thing!
There’s no wrong way to read a word, but sometimes there are so many ways it’s hard to choose which fits you best. Let’s review your options so you can always ride the reading rainbow with ease.
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Autostraddle Book Club #6: We’re Reading “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”
“Girls kissing girls in barns, in twisty slides on playgrounds, in abandoned hospitals. Miles City, Montana. The 1990s. Swimming. Summer. Cowgirls. Dinosaur discovering. Ferris Wheels. Conversion therapy. Taco Johns.”
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Listling: Reasons You Should Read Santa Olivia Immediately
There are lots of reasons to read Santa Olivia. Even if you weren’t peer pressured into doing it for A Camp.
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Millennials Buy The Most Books, Will Save The (Publishing) World
Are you a millennial who likes to read and buy books? Me too! And now there’s a study proving that we all paid attention during Reading Rainbow.
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And Yet Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels
The Law and Order Edition.
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Yet Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels
Love stories featuring lesbian Secret Service agents, doctors, super spies, life coaches, personal trainers and women of many other professions.
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Hollywood Thinks Your Period Is Scary
Happy Friday the 13th. Your period is officially terrifying, according to the media.
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Read A F*cking Book: “Stranger On Lesbos” Reminds Us How Far We’ve Come and What Hasn’t Changed
“I am glad to be here with you in 2012. But I am glad someone was there in 1950.”
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Emma and Nicola Wrote A Novel About Britney Spears: The Autostraddle Interview
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries”) re-imagine the story of how Britney Spears ended up under her father’s permanent legal control in their new novel.
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Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s “Fall On Your Knees”
What if the nerdy bookstore owner from “Better Than Chocolate” wrote a book of her own? Oh, wait, she DID!
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Lez Liberty Lit: Your New Biweekly Guide To Queer Lady Literature
Welcome to the inaugural Lez Liberty Lit post, a column where we tell you things about books that will make your brain smarter, better, faster, stronger.
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Eileen Myles Still Has It: The Autostraddle Review of “Snowflake / different streets”
“Suddenly it all became very clear to me what made the two books different, what brought them together, and what let them stand alone. And suddenly I was crying.”
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For Anyone Who Likes Sex, Feelings, Love Letters, Books, All Of The Above
Carmen’s Team Pick: This is a Melissa Gira Grant appreciation post.
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Autostraddle Book Club #5: We’re Reading The Hunger Games!
Has anyone else not read this yet? No? Just me?
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Autostraddle Book Club #4: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
“I am literally incapable of talking about a memoir about a queer woman grappling with a fraught, distant, infuriating relationship with her father without talking about myself.”
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It’s Black History Month! Here’s Five Of My Favorite LGBTQ Black Women
A history lesson, a poetry lesson, and a some famous queer black ladies.
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“The Marriage Plot” Thickens, Kinda
“Middlesex” author Jeffery Eugenides new novel “The Marriage Plot” is really good! But is it really aptly described as “a feminist re-telling”? Not so much.
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8 Queerish Short Story Books
So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!