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.
Topics include the US post office, football, the plane that fell from the sky, racism in Canada, fact-checking, Manhattan and moar!
Topics include Tinder, Boy Scouting, sexual assault on college campuses, The Zimmermans, the word “problematic,” Airbnb, Paula Deen and more!
Non-monosexual books to read, fall books to read, non-fiction gender equality, censorship and more.
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 is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.
Topics include love, full-figured fashion, depression & sobriety, rape of men in the military, debtor’s prison and more!
Sexy poetry, slow reading, an independent bookstore road trip, new old classic YA and more.
Topics include horror in New Orleans, late ’70s gay life in Kansas, family farming, turning 14 in Cincinnati, Teach for America and more!
Are the pages of your journals festooned with book titles? Mine are.
Topics include the writing business, clothes & class, memes & misogynoir, Mary Beard, earthquakes, finding a place to be gay and so much more!
A library in a taxi, imaginary meals, must-read books by trans women and by or about queer Canadians, surpassing diversity checkboxes and more.
This is bad feminism. And we are better for it.
Topics include the last true hermit, therapy, Cheryl Strayed, “the future of college,” the death penalty, summer jams and more!
Topics include Hook, The Ivy League, Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash, sex work, crossword puzzles, Gurl.com and moar!
Boy do y’all love to read about rope bondage!
Highbrow and lowbrow literature, visualizing characters, an excerpt from “bad Feminist” and more!
Topics include women in country music, pedophilia, the Estonia ferry sinking, Magnolia, retail scheduling, confessional writing, Ferguson and more.
“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.”
“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.”