Things I Read That I Love #152: To Make Thunder Where There Was No Lightning
Topics include “redneck reality TV,” cheerleading, Guantánamo, Reality Bites, rehab, Modern farmer, men and feminism and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #151: I Ate The Dirt Along With The Fruit
Topics include American bathrooms, Wikipedia, poverty, Ferguson, cities without cars, Public Relations, local food, reality TV shows about auctions and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #58: We Have Always Lived In The Bookshelf
Susan Sontag, LeVar Burton, librarians with algorithms, emotional truths, queer Halloween reads and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #150: Whatever She Is Fleeing From Will Always Eventually Overtake Her
Topics include Nicki Minaj, the price of black ambition, murder, aging, Nazi hipsters, Los Angeles, TV Talk Show audiences and more!
The Speakeasy Book Club #1: Let’s Talk About “Sister Outsider”
“Without community there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression.”
Things I Read That I Love #149: A Place To Feed Those Hungry Skin Receptors
Topics include mass shooter psychology, “Let’s Be Cops,” the Tea Party in Lima, an NYC apartment disaster, the Chilean Miners, Chinese restaurant workers and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #57: Defining A Golden Age
Halloween reading, which grammar mistakes are not mistakes, an app for discovering literature by people of color, reading women’s writing and more.
“Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives” is a Vital Catalogue of QTPOC Voices
This is simultaneously one of the most informative and inspirational books I’ve read in a long time.It’s like a primer for how to be an effective artist or community worker.
Things I Read That I Love #148: Surrender Your Heart and Your Money
Topics include the US post office, football, the plane that fell from the sky, racism in Canada, fact-checking, Manhattan and moar!
Things I Read That I Love #147: I Couldn’t Wait To Read Books, Drink Beer, Smoke Pot, Get Laid.
Topics include Tinder, Boy Scouting, sexual assault on college campuses, The Zimmermans, the word “problematic,” Airbnb, Paula Deen and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #56: Myth or Reality
Non-monosexual books to read, fall books to read, non-fiction gender equality, censorship and more.
Things I Read That I Love #146: The Fumes Of A Magic Marker
Topics include a lot of stuff about race and also rock star’s wives, making things, Star Trek, this app called Slack, the impact of the California drought and more!
The Speakeasy Book Club Is Reading “Sister Outsider” And You Should Too!
The Speakeasy is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.
Things I Read That I Love #145: It’s Gradual and Sad, or Wild and Thrashing
Topics include love, full-figured fashion, depression & sobriety, rape of men in the military, debtor’s prison and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #55: Reading Slowly, Reading Well
Sexy poetry, slow reading, an independent bookstore road trip, new old classic YA and more.
Things I Read That I Love #144: We Say No Because We Are Grumpy and Have Not Slept Properly
Topics include horror in New Orleans, late ’70s gay life in Kansas, family farming, turning 14 in Cincinnati, Teach for America and more!
Dear Queer Diary: We Are What We Read
Are the pages of your journals festooned with book titles? Mine are.
Things I Read That I Love #143: What You Fight For, You Love.
Topics include the writing business, clothes & class, memes & misogynoir, Mary Beard, earthquakes, finding a place to be gay and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit #54: Libraries, Libraries Everywhere
A library in a taxi, imaginary meals, must-read books by trans women and by or about queer Canadians, surpassing diversity checkboxes and more.
Roxane Gay’s “Bad Feminist” Reminds Us We’re All Human
This is bad feminism. And we are better for it.