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.
Dear Queer Diary: Commonplace Books Should Be More Common
Craft “a salad of many herbs” for your reading and writing pleasure.
Things I Read That I Love #118: Folks Are Well-Intentioned and Stupid, Well-Intentioned and Broken
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.
Lez Liberty Lit #41: Not Computer Generated
Computer-generated texts, working on trains, avoiding your book club, how critics fail writers of color and more.
Things I Read That I Love #117: Strangely, Our Outfits Match The Volkswagen.
Topics include Edie Windsor, Party Monster, anxiety, the prison hunger strike, sorority vs. lesbians, growing up in a missionary family, HealthCare.gov and moar!
Five Books That F*cked Up My Brain Cells (In A Good Way)
The best stories fuck us up and force us to put ourselves back together in a new configuration.
Read A F*cking Book: 5 Truths About Sex Work I Learned from “Playing The Whore”
It’s not up to just anyone. It’s up to sex workers to define their own destiny.
Things I Read That I Love #116: We Should Seek Maximum Publicity and Maximum Debunking
Topics include murder, addiction, ghosting for Julian Assange, masking, movie novelizations, Gitmo and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #40: A Page-Turner At Heart
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.
Getting Your Lit Nerd on with Reading Apps
“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).”
Things I Read That I Love #115: I Go From Zero To Bitch In 2.5 Seconds
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!
10 Novels & Memoirs By and About Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women
You should celebrate Black History Month by reading all of these books right now.
Zine Crush: I Love You Queerly
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.
Things I Read That I Love #114: The Marketability of Hot Blonde Twins
Topics include the TSA, college tours, sex in marriages, slavery, Ryan Leaf, Sweet Valley High, life after prison and so much more!
Things I Read That I Love #113: In A Way, We’re All Here To Be Swallowed Up
Topics include Fox News, The Illinois State Fair, Johnny Lewis, Mean Girls, Woody Allen, medical actors, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #39: Speed Reading
Reading women, reading other humans, what counts as queer writing, library theft and more.
Two “New” Poems By Sappho Uncovered and Translated, Prove She’s Still Got It
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.
Get Excited About Janet Mock’s Project, I AM #RedefiningRealness
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.
Things I Read That I Love #112: What Could Possibly Be More Important Than Getting Back Your Beloved Bike?
Topics include suicide, murder, luxury cruises, Lisa Nowak, pickpocketing, cults, football, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #38: My Handwriting Is Worse Than Yours
Maps, lesbian steampunk recommendations, today’s reason you’ll want to propose to Mallory Ortberg, reading women writers and more.