Lez Liberty Lit #76: Sideways Stories
Zines and sci-fi by people of color, queer magical realism, everything’s an essay, rewriting the diary and more.
GIVEAWAY: You Can Win A Kate Beaton “The Princess and the Pony” Prize Pack!
Aw Yiss! Princess and the Pony prize pack!
Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Chrystos and ‘In Her I Am’
Every two weeks I’ll profile a queer lit title that’s outside of the public eye for one reason or another: obscure, small-press, older, aimed at a different niche, or otherwise underrated. This week, we’re learning about Chrystos!
10 Lesbianish Sex Books To Make You Better In Bed
Want to know how to have lesbian sex? These books have your back.
Things I Read That I Love #178: Silence Is So Often Applauded and Those Who Speak Out Are Often Called Tasteless
Topics include Charleston, Columbia House, Disney superfans, the sharing economy, romance novels, Margaret Cho and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #75: Don’t Read Twice, It’s All Right
Queer Book Club has lots of great recommendations, a new short story by Malinda Lo, a feminist coloring book and more!
Read a F*cking Book: “Out of Orange” is the Real Life Alex Vause’s True Story
You know about Alex Vause, but you may not know much about Catherine Cleary Wolters, the drug-smuggling lesbian in thick-rimmed glasses who inspired her character. That’s where Out of Orange comes in.
Things I Read That I Love #177: A Kind Of Inoculation Against Future Hurt
Topics include queer mamas and donor sperm, suicide in Palo Alto, Mary Gaitskill and men, orthodontics, black feminism, Baltimore and moar!
Women In Prison: A Longform Reading List
“Orange is the New Black” premieres today, here is your really thorough reading list — from Assata Shakur to nuns against nukes to incredible journalism on the various horrors of the U.S. criminal “justice” system.
Lez Liberty Lit #74: Making Friends With Owls
Illustrated owls, Judy Blume’s new novel, the Lambda Literary Award winners, what Riese and Rachel have been reading, and more.
Read a F*cking Book: Amber Dawn’s “Where The Words End And My Body Begins”
Although it is an individual’s work, it feels collective and empowering to see so many voices and ideas represented in this set of glosa poems.
Things I Read That I Love #176: The Many-Gendered Mothers Of My Heart
Topics include indoor malls, therapy, queer identity (well it’s more complicated than that — you’ll see), Judy Blume, domestic abuse in South Carolina and more.
Lez Liberty Lit #73: Stealing Pens From Dead People
Sex scenes in YA, rereading books, stealing a pen from Douglas Adams’s grave and more.
Autostraddle Book Club #8: Let’s All Read ‘The Argonauts’ by Maggie Nelson
We’re all gonna read The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson! We bet you’re gonna like it a lot or at least have lots of feelings about it.
Things I Read That I Love #175: The Return Of Witch-Hunting
Topics include Oscar the Grouch, Monster-in-Law, Uber, Key & Peele, the cruise industry, nail salons and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #72: Self-(De)Construction
Structuring and restructuring the self through notebooks, the city with the most bookstores per capita, poetry collections that are like documentaries and more.
9+ Queer Canadian Poets to Break Your Heart and Put It Back Together Again
Queer Canadian poets tend to be experimental, to push against boundaries. They tell it like it is, challenge our ways of thinking, and actively organize for change. Their words are hilarious, heartbreaking, and wise. Here are some queer Canadian poets — mostly female-identified — whose words have changed my world for the better.
Read A F*cking Book Review: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is Living Her Truths in “Bodymap”
I told myself 2015 was the year of living my truths. I’m excited to have a guide in this book, and in Leah’s soulful mission to love and be loved — the rest of it be damned.
Things I Read That I Love #174: Characters Arise Out Of Our Need For Them
Topics include Dominique Moceanu, crowdfunding, recording our lives on social media, illness and diagnosis in comics, fan fiction, murder, the end of “bohemian” San Francisco and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit #71: Books Alter You
Poets to start reading now, what to do about the VIDA results, kids being told to stop reading and more.