Things I Read That I Love #105: The Rainbow, The Stars, The Statue Of The Panda
Topics include Lisa Frank, genetic testing, Blue Star Texas, KidZania, the tragic death of a college freshman, Balthazar, Christopher McCandless Pilgrims and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #35: These Are Words
This week in lit: the best of the best of lists, holiday crafts with books you want to punish, digital national libraries and more.
Dear Queer Diary: Drop Everything and Read!
I don’t know whether it’s the snow that has begun falling in picturesque flakes outside my window or the blizzard of end-of-year lists on my Twitter feed, but it suddenly seems like ‘tis the season for curling up with a good book.
With “Portable Homes,” Domestic Violence Survivors Reclaim Their Bodies
The second book to come out of the “Attention: People With Body Parts” project invites survivors of domestic violence to heal through discussions with their own body parts.
Party of Five: Emily Gould of Emily Books
“There’s something really magical about creating the job you want for yourself from scratch.”
Things I Read That I Love #104: Drinking, Trucks, Girls, Hot Days, and Southern Nights
Topics include Joe Jonas, the Men’s Right movement, a serial killer, cystic fibrosis, teacher/student affair, the South Pole, Florida Georgia Line, sleeping pills, The Khmer Rouge and more!
Things I Read That I Love #103: I Had No Idea What Was True
Topics include Katrina, Catching Fire, Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Silicon Valley, free market propaganda, animals in Hollywood, abortion, the LA riots and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #34: I Know Where Waldo Is
This week in lit: trans* poetry, finding Waldo, reviewing books in GIFs, Doris Lessing, closeted characters, riese reads “the circle” and more.
Things I Read That I Love #102: Nobody Gets Off
Topics include LinkedIn, AIDS in film, Deep Springs, Blockbuster Video, Paris Hilton, O.J Simpson, brocialism, health care in Texas and more!
Read a F*cking Book: “Out of Hollow Water” by Anna Bongiovanni
It evokes the feeling of sitting with your friend at night, sipping red wine and looking in their sketchbook. This looks amazing, you’d say. And you’d mean it and the moment would feel extraordinarily intimate because you feel like these drawings are only for you.
Tania De Rozario, Writer and Rabble-Rouser, On Heartbreak, Activism and Censorship
An Autostraddle Interview with Tania De Rozario, queer artist, writer and activist. Read more about her views on censorship, activism and Jeanette Winterson in this interview.
Things I Read That I Love #101: When You Were Inside Me, We Went To See The Edge Of The Earth
Topics include incest, essay mills, miscarriage, Tonya Harding, Maury Povich, fast food workers, “selling out” indie rock and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #33: The Novel Is Not Dead
This week in lit news: reports that novels may or may not be dead have been exaggerated, the animated history of the English language, “Love Cake” and more.
Autostraddle Book Club #7: We’re Reading “Blue Is The Warmest Color”
And! Because I’m the one doing the book club, I have a bit of an added element. There is a drink recipe in here, folks!
140 Longform Pieces You Can Read And Love
140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
Things I Read That I Love #100: I Never Told A Soul, and I Suppose This Alone Says Something.
Topics include HIV, farmer’s markets, the worst serial killer ever, Jay-Z, Salem Witch Trials, slave dwellings, undocumented farm workers, queer sororities and moar!
Things I Read That I Love #99: Ending Is Hard But It’s Easier Than Loving You
Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #32: Turning The Screw
This week in lit: creepy books to read while we’re all still obsessed with Halloween, 10 years of queer YA, Emily Dickinson, “City of Night” and more.
Read A F*cking Book GIVEAWAY: Win a Copy of “Blue Is The Warmest Color”
We want to hook two commenters up with copies of Julie Maroh’s graphic novel, Blue is the Warmest Color!
We Are Family: S. Bear Bergman’s “Blood, Marriage, Wine & Glitter”
Maybe my mom was onto something. Maybe family really is everything, so long as you build it yourself.