Lez Liberty Lit #42: Didactic Dialogue and Book Doctors
Gender and racial diversity in children’s books, talking about talking about race and sexuality in all types of books, why speed reading is stupid and more.
Gender and racial diversity in children’s books, talking about talking about race and sexuality in all types of books, why speed reading is stupid and more.
Craft “a salad of many herbs” for your reading and writing pleasure.
Topics include solitary confinement, the Barista class, the burrnesha of Albania, Back to the Future II, Swissair Flight 111, Dazed & Confused and so much more. Srsly this is a good one.
Computer-generated texts, working on trains, avoiding your book club, how critics fail writers of color and more.
Topics include Edie Windsor, Party Monster, anxiety, the prison hunger strike, sorority vs. lesbians, growing up in a missionary family, HealthCare.gov and moar!
The best stories fuck us up and force us to put ourselves back together in a new configuration.
It’s not up to just anyone. It’s up to sex workers to define their own destiny.
Topics include murder, addiction, ghosting for Julian Assange, masking, movie novelizations, Gitmo and more!
Novels in one sentence, “Hild,” libraries, queer poetry, semi-colons, classic literature reenacted by Lego, schools facing funding cuts for making students read queer literature and more.
“After flying 2,678 miles and over the Pacific Ocean, I realized that I was gonna have to rebuild my collection. But this time, it would be digital (and therefore move-proof).”
Topics include Sabrina the Teenage Witch, life after “The Real World,” Abercrombie, madness, 4chan and other things too complicated to describe in this little box!
You should celebrate Black History Month by reading all of these books right now.
I Love You Queerly is a collaborative zine being sold for charity that celebrates queer expressions of love! It’s by queers, for queers, and for a good cause.
Topics include the TSA, college tours, sex in marriages, slavery, Ryan Leaf, Sweet Valley High, life after prison and so much more!
Topics include Fox News, The Illinois State Fair, Johnny Lewis, Mean Girls, Woody Allen, medical actors, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and moar!
Reading women, reading other humans, what counts as queer writing, library theft and more.
After having been lost to the world for a couple thousand years, two poems written by Sappho have unexpectedly turned up in London following an anonymous collector’s submission to Oxford.
To celebrate her new book coming out, Janet Mock has put together a tumblr where people from all around the world can go and share how they are #RedefiningRealness.
Topics include suicide, murder, luxury cruises, Lisa Nowak, pickpocketing, cults, football, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and more!
Maps, lesbian steampunk recommendations, today’s reason you’ll want to propose to Mallory Ortberg, reading women writers and more.