Results for: be the change
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Michelle Tea’s Queer Pregnancy Memoir Is for Everyone — Not Just People Who Want To Become Parents
For most of my life, I was convinced that some day, somehow, I’d be a parent.
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When Survival Isn’t Just About Yourself
Writer Blair Braverman talks preppers, survival, queer love, and her gripping new novel, Small Game.
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Author Lydia Conklin on Being Queer in the 90s and Writing Characters in Transitional Moments
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
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This Easy Shrimp “Beach Ceviche” Is a Late Summer Flex
You can easily whip up this shrimp ceviche while getting ready for the beach, and by the time you’re all set up on the shore, it’ll be cured and ready to eat.
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Documenting and Honoring Queer History Requires Imagination
Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories, a new book by cultural historian Diarmuid Hester, shows us what is possible when we consider space in this way.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #63: What If Other People Think You’re “A Lot”?
How do you stop comparing yourself to your girlfriend’s nesting partner, have big life conversations with your partner, deal with feeling your friends don’t love you as much as you love them, and more?
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Into the A+ Advice Box #69: What If You Have a Stalker?
Supporting a partner with an HIV diagnosis, dating anxiety, dressing while pregnant, and more!
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8 Poets With New Queer Books To Check Out This National Poetry Month
If I’ve given you one poetry recommendation, I’ve held back from giving 15.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #67: Surviving the End of a 9-Year Relationship
Looking for children’s books with queer moms, binding as a cis woman, communications issues in relationships, and more!
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In Verse: Poetry Collections for a Summer Picnic
If you are going to read one poet in a park, let it be Mary Oliver.
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I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”
Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.
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“The Romance Recipe” Is the Steamy Beach Read You Need
Thankfully, Ruby Barrett doesn’t make us wait long for the simmering lust to boil into something more.
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“Working It” Says the Quiet Parts Out Loud About Sex Work
Before I was a sex worker, I was a proud sex worker ally.
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“When I Got Sober So Many Relationships Just Ended”: Sober Queers on Friendships and Community
“I came to realize I am a terrible parent when I’m drunk.”
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Chloe Caldwell on First Periods, PMDD, and That Weird Blue “Blood” in Tampon Commercials
The author discusses her new memoir “The Red Zone,” which chronicles her experiences with premenstrual dysphoric disorder and provides a kaleidoscopic view of how people feel about their periods.
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Sarah Viren’s Memoir Is A Compelling Exploration of the Nature of Truth
When we live in a society where truth matters so little, what are we supposed to do with it once we have it?
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us: #47
“EVERY GARLIC PRESS I BUY SUCKS.”
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Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature
The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.
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In Their Debut Romance, Akwaeke Emezi Writes a Kind of Love I Recognize
The friendship central to You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is as important as the romance.
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M. Crane Chatted with the A+ Book Club About Tragic Endings, Sports and Future Projects
“and my agent was like what the f*ck?”