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.
Things I Read That I Love #111: But If I Was Holding A Coconut
Topics include fundamentalist Christian homeschooling, V.C. Andrews, BUST Magazine, the Backstreet Boys, the House of Prayer, ghostwriting, The Greyhound and more!
Things I Read That I Love #110: That Room With The Ashtrays and The Stereo and The Bed Sheet
Topics include Saturday Night Live in the mid-90s, the cannibal cop, “Satanic Ritual Abuse,” abortion, being Korean and American, Tonya Harding and moar!
Let’s Celebrate Laverne Cox’s Book Deal and Read These 6 Memoirs By Trans Women Of Color
Not content with producing a documentary, greeting CeCe McDonald outside of prison and shutting it down on daytime TV, Laverne Cox added signing a book deal to her list of accomplishments in the first half of the first month of 2014.
Hot New Lit Journal qu.ee/r Is Here With “A Call To Adventure”!
This issue proves that that’s possible — there’s gobs of work out there made by queer artists that isn’t confined to coming out stories, identity struggles, or crushes on straight girls, and it’s really good.
Things I Read That I Love #109: Do You Think Ocean Would Wear This?
Topics include women on the internet, Lululemon, death at “The Secret”‘s self-help retreat, Fallon Fox, Bev Kearney, “Baby Got Back” and so much more!
Liberty Lit #37: Nothing Is Sexier Than Grammar
Alice Walker and Tracy Chapman dated and nothing else even matters. Also unlikeable protagonists, books to treat depression, books to treat your lesbian break-up and more.
Read A F*cking Book: Denice Bourbon’s “Cheers!” Is All Booze, Burlesque, and Big Dreams
“Writing a Rita Mae Brown ‘Sudden Death’ or Jenny Schecter ‘Lez Girls’ was never an option.”
Things I Read That I Love #108: Cheap Red Wine And Stacks Of Crisps
Topics include Okinawa, Fraggle Rock, The Crystal Cathedral, a 55-year-old murder case, job hunting, being an elf at Harrod’s and so much more!
Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2013
Read these books.
Things I Read That I Love #107: Sometimes Evil Is Something We’re All Responsible For
Topics include homeless youth, Alison Janey, the death of Margarey Vojtko, David Foster Wallace, elite public schools, the decline of evangelicalism, Buffy and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #36: Emoji Versus Words
This week in lit: when emoji work better than words, the intersection between writing and food, best books lists, the worst grammar mistakes and more.
Autostraddle Book Club #7: Let’s Talk “Blue Is The Warmest Color” and Win an Autographed Copy!
Did you read the book? Now it’s time to join in the discussion! We have questions, you have answers, and hopefully additional questions. It’s a book club! Let’s go!
Read a F*cking Book: Read Best Sex Writing 2013 Before 2013 Is Over
If I had to compare this book to a physical object, it would be a box of chocolates. But not fluffy, easy chocolates – I’m not talking Russell Stover, here. I’m talking complex chocolates, probably with liqueur in them.
Things I Read That I Love #106: I’ve Lost Myself Again And I Feel Unsafe
Topics include Christopher Dorner, Six Feet Under, factory farms, Bed-Sty, quicksand, painkiller addiction, Gretchen Molanenen and moar!
Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions with Melissa Gira Grant about Cats, Sex Work, and Writing
“Maybe years of blogging ruined me, or maybe they created a productive tension.”