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LGBT Book Reviews

Roxane Gay’s “Bad Feminist” Reminds Us We’re All Human

This is bad feminism. And we are better for it.

Carmen September 3, 2014 11 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #142: Like A Freaky Connie Francis With A Death Wish

Topics include the last true hermit, therapy, Cheryl Strayed, “the future of college,” the death penalty, summer jams and more!

Riese August 29, 2014 10 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #141: Just Give Me Room To Exist Both In The Shit And Stars

Topics include Hook, The Ivy League, Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash, sex work, crossword puzzles, Gurl.com and moar!

Riese August 22, 2014 6 Comments
Book Lists

Top 17 Books Autostraddlers Bought This Year

Boy do y’all love to read about rope bondage!

Riese August 22, 2014 14 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #53: A To-Read Pile To The Moon

Highbrow and lowbrow literature, visualizing characters, an excerpt from “bad Feminist” and more!

Ryan Yates August 21, 2014 7 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #140: A Girl In Black Eyeliner and High-Top Sneakers

Topics include women in country music, pedophilia, the Estonia ferry sinking, Magnolia, retail scheduling, confessional writing, Ferguson and more.

Riese August 15, 2014 5 Comments
Book Features

National Poetry Slam 2014 Queerer Than All The Other Slams Forever

“This not just your average poetry reading with people standing stoically reading prose or page poetry. This is a rock show of poetry. This is aggression, fierceness, tenderness, passion, tears and jubilance.”

Carolyn Wysinger August 13, 2014 5 Comments
Book Features

50 Shades of Non-Consent: Editing BDSM Erotica as a Queer Top

“The path of least resistance is to write off 50 Shades of Grey as harmless fluff, but frankly, after editing over one hundred novels full of distortions and abuse, I don’t think I could respect myself if I did so.”

Wren Hanks August 12, 2014 32 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Loved #139: We Lean Into Love, Even In The Most Hideous Circumstances

Topics include Mary Karr, YouTube rooms, the ferry Sewol sinking, murder, child abuse, Kara Swisher, Ed Albee and moar!

Riese August 8, 2014 14 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #52: Lazy Reading Days

Zadie Smith, superlatives, reader’s block, Samantha Irby, public domain reviews, queer book fairs and more.

Ryan Yates August 7, 2014 2 Comments
Book Features

If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come

Listen up all queermos within striking distance of Philly! There’s a new bookstore coming your way — a very very queer bookstore with a café and art and all sorts of amazing things. And it’s being built from the ground up by community members Makella Craelius and Puppett.

A.E. Osworth August 6, 2014 12 Comments
Book Lists

Read a F*cking Book: Late Summer Reading For Queers and Feminists

With new books by Roxane Gay, Hannah Hart, Sarah Waters, Radclyffe and more, there are lots of things to read and talk about.

Ryan Yates August 5, 2014 24 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #138: I Am Perfectly Normal And Fine, I Told Myself

Topics include the new face of hunger, The Olive Garden, CeCe McDonald, college rankings, sitcom cities, Amway, PTSD, “hiking while black” and moar!

Riese August 1, 2014 2 Comments
Book Lists Parenting & Family

40 LGBTQ-Friendly Picture Books for Ages 0-5

Spread the gay agenda with these colourful, easy-to-read books teaching love, acceptance, and science.

Fikri July 30, 2014 53 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #137: We Don’t Do Dumb Things Like That To Start The Day

Topics include the case for reparations as explained by Ta-Nehisi Coates, AM Homes, a Vine romance gone wrong, how to be a writer, turning 30 and more!

Riese July 25, 2014 14 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #51: Reading While Travelling

Reading online, typewriters, trans literature, romance fiction as feminist fiction and more.

Ryan Yates July 24, 2014 2 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

“We Are The Youth” Captures Young Queers Across America

This extraordinary photojournalism project highlights young queer lives and stories.

Ryan Yates July 22, 2014 17 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #136: I Fell So Hard for Tomato Juice One Summer

Topics include class rage, the crash of EgyptAir 990, the cruise ship industry, elephant abuse at the circus, Justin Bieber, falling in love with everything and more!

Riese July 18, 2014 6 Comments
Book Lists

10 Hilarious And Historical Sex Scenes From Lesbian Pulp Fiction

“Wildly, the girls locked to each other. Their bodies were gleaming now with sweat. Lip to lip, breast to breast, thigh to slippery thigh, they heaved and gyrated, ecstasy rising like a lava wave.”

Ryan Yates July 18, 2014 27 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: ‘G.R.I.T.S.’ Is So Much More Than Food

This shiny new collection of queer Southern poetry and stories is guaranteed to stick to your ribs.

fonseca July 14, 2014 8 Comments
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