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Literature

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.

Ryan Yates March 20, 2014 7 Comments
Book Features

Dear Queer Diary: Commonplace Books Should Be More Common

Craft “a salad of many herbs” for your reading and writing pleasure.

Maggie March 20, 2014 31 Comments
Literature

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.

Riese March 14, 2014 4 Comments
Literature

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.

Ryan Yates March 7, 2014 9 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese March 7, 2014 10 Comments
Book Lists

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.

Adrian March 3, 2014 9 Comments
Book Lists

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.

Carmen February 28, 2014 17 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese February 28, 2014 5 Comments
Literature

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.

Ryan Yates February 22, 2014 5 Comments
Book Features Geekery

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).”

Loraine February 22, 2014 18 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese February 21, 2014 6 Comments
Book Lists

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.

Riese February 20, 2014 20 Comments
Book Features

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.

Monique February 19, 2014 12 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese February 14, 2014 6 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese February 7, 2014 5 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #39: Speed Reading

Reading women, reading other humans, what counts as queer writing, library theft and more.

Ryan Yates February 7, 2014 6 Comments
Book Features

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.

Laura Mandanas February 6, 2014 8 Comments
Book Features

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.

Mey January 31, 2014 6 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese January 31, 2014 3 Comments
Literature

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.

Ryan Yates January 24, 2014 5 Comments
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