Nerdy Staycation: Books You Can Totally Complete In A Weekend
Recommendations include books with queer content, reads you might have missed in high school, and recent award nominees!
Things I Read That I Love #169: More Stories We Tell Ourselves In Order to Live
Topics include same-sex adoption, the 50 Shades movie, Keurig cups, the Ferguson Police Department, Susan Berman, the missing Malaysia Airlines flight and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #67: Sick Day Reading
Lambda finalists, queer representation in comics, Emily Books getting more awesome and more.
Rebel Girls: Consider This Your Women’s Herstory Month Syllabus
I want us to embark on some serious herstorical journeys through time, but I simply cannot condense herstory into one post, so I’m gonna condense everyone else’s pieces, books, movies, and projects about women’s history into one instead!
Things I Read That I Love #168: Profound Shame And Fantastic Imagination
Topics include this business of art, tupperware, David Carr, The New York Times, Miranda July, for-profit foster care, arson science and moar!
Things I Read That I Love #167: The Dark Fruits Of The Life I Had Chosen
Topics include showbiz seniors, independent Black American film-making, genetic sexual attraction, prostitution in Germany and so much more! Also an essay by the late David Carr.
Lez Liberty Lit #66: Why Not Get Started Immediately
Canadian queer women’s classic books, Asian American literature after Amy Tan, failing to keep a diary, optional bookmarks and more.
The Speakeasy Book Club #2: Come Talk About “Borderlands/La Frontera” With Us
“I didn’t want the only thing I had ever known to be taken away from me. So I ignored my desires in order not to lose everything I loved.”
Things I Read That I Love #166: She Wished She Could Grab The Happiness
Topics include the Albuquerque police department, Mary Gaitksill, 50 Shades of Grey, how San Francisco looks in “Looking,” Sweden, a letter from a death row inmate and more!
Patricia Velásquez, Gay Latina Supermodel, Wants You To Live Your Truths: The Autostraddle Interview
The Venezuelan supermodel, actress and activist talks about her new memoir, coming out now vs. then, inspiring gay Latinas, the kinds of pastries she brought Sandra Bernhard years ago and working on set of The L Word.
Things I Read That I Love #165: We Are Totally Obsessed With Our Stomachs
The National review on its own racism, queering makeup, The John Wayne Gacy Files, defending awful humans in court, Casey Kasem, Broad City and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #65: Books In Boxes
New Toni Morrison, make a tiny zine, literary podcasts, writing difference and more.
Rebel Girls: 9 Badass Black Feminists and Their Books That Shook the World
These women changed feminism forever with their scholarship. Let’s vow to never forget their names.
Things I Read That I Love #164: Being Underestimated Is Something Most Women Have In Common
Topics include Dollywood, women writers, migrant farmers, Dorothy Allison, the Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram, the American military and more!
Fan Fiction Friday: 7 Baby-Sitters Club Femslash Fics to Take You Way Back
Kristy and Mary Ann always belonged together, and don’t you forget it.
Things I Read That I Love #163: An Off-White Fan On The Off-White Ceiling
Topics include a childhood on codeine, Marsha Mehran, Fruitvale, prison labor, a face transplant, The Mission in San Francisco and moar!
“Untold Stories” Help Us Transform the Culture of Stigma Around Reproduction
Untold Stories directly disrupts the ongoing and frustrating conversation around abortion and reproductive health as a political wedge issue. It drives home the point, without proselytizing, that people’s complex reproductive lives should be at the center of conversations about reproductive health and rights.
Lez Liberty Lit #64: Reading To Fix Your Brain
Marginalized writers learning to value their own stories, interviews with queer and trans artists of color, a new Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie story, bisexuality in sci fi and more.
Rebel Girls: Why You Need Barbara Smith and “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”
These shouldn’t be revelations. These should be the frameworks of our revolution.
Sleater-Kinney and Broad City Compare “Vag Badges,” Tell You What to Read, Watch and Listen To
Seriously Carrie Brownstein could tell me to buy her dinner and I’d be like “No problem Carrie Brownstein. I’m a little tight for cash right now but you get that steak tartare.”