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Eight Books Featuring Women Dealing with Professional Jealousy
“I’m experiencing a debilitating bout of professional jealousy for another (deserving) woman, and I’m having a hard time with it. I wonder if there are any books that focus on this regrettable phenomenon?”
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The Book That Helped Me Leave Religion: Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”
The first sentence of “The Books of Bokonon” – the fictional foundational text of Bokononism, the religion Kurt Vonnegut invented for his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle – reads as follows: “All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”
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QUIZ: Which Queer Spooky Book Should You Read This October?
Whether you want to be scared out of your wits by a haunted house story, disturbed by body horror, feel warm and fuzzy about witches falling in love, or vicariously get feminist revenge by reading about teen girl werewolves eating slimy men, there is a queer spooky book for you!
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75 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way Fall 2021
This fall we’ve got terrifying queer horror, swoony lesbian romance, cute sapphic YA, intriguing lit fic, monstrous women in fantasy and sci fi, new feminist history books, and much more!
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Malinda Lo on Her Historic National Book Award Win and Lesbian Literature’s History and Future
Malinda Lo talks about writing queerness in different genres, butch/femme dynamics in literature, and the gay Macy’s of the 1960s that didn’t make it into her book.
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Malinda Lo Won a National Book Award for “Last Night at the Telegraph Club” — And I Yelled
Malinda Lo’s National Book Award win for Last Night at the Telegraph Club comes at a particularly crucial moment for LGBTQ+ YA as a genre.
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The Book That Made Me A Slut: Andrea Lawlor’s “Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl”
Trans people love to joke about having been every letter of the acronym but Paul is all of them at once. He is the ultimate non-binary fantasy — or at least my ultimate non-binary fantasy.
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8 Books about Queer People Dealing with Cancer
From classics such as Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals published in the 1980s to brand new graphic memoirs, here are eight queer authored books about cancer.
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Our Hobbies Our Shelves: Carmen Keeps Books Stacked By Her Bed as a Comfort Blanket
This is a book collection that’s used and loved, out of place and a little mismanaged — not for lack of care, but quite the opposite, due to an abundance of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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No Filter: Joy Is Realizing Cynthia Nixon Has Impeccable Taste in Books
One thing Kate Moennig is gonna do is look absolutely incredible in a suit, and sometimes it is important to remember that Cara Delevingne is an EXTREME Leo.
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Which Lesbian Pulp Book Cover Are You?
Find out what mid-20th century gay stereotype you’d be!
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How and Why I Wrote Bang!: A Masturbation Sex-Ed Book for Everyone
I made Bang! Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities because it profoundly made sense to me, because there was a gaping hole in that plastic wall where there should have been some acknowledgement of pleasure, consent, or the emotions of sex. Bang! was designed to fill this gap with emotionally-aware, positive sex-ed. While we had been taught about the vas deferens and fallopian tubes, we had never been taught how to even talk about sex with a partner. I made Bang! because I thought it needed to exist.
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‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods
No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the way some of us still interact with our worlds today.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Reading Sex Books
Reading sex books makes you better at sex, shower sex tips, whether or not ‘shrooms make you horny and more.
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Forsyth Harmon’s “Justine” Is a Haunting Book About Intense Teenage Friendship
This tiny book is a quiet horror story in which beauty is a terror and friendship is an undoing of the self. The final line has haunted me long past reading it.
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67 of the Best Queer Books of 2020
2020 was terrible in every way except for queer books. There were so many amazing queer books published this year! Here are 67 of the best of them.
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8 Books Featuring Big Queer Families, Found and Otherwise
“Stories about huge families full of love, whether nuclear or chosen or just-for-school, were the comfort food of my childhood, and I’m trying to find something similar for my queer adulthood. Is there such a thing?”
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Read About the Real-Life Inspiration for “Benedetta” and More with these 5 Books on Queer & Trans Nuns
If you’d like more backstory on the real-life story of Sister Benedetta that inspired this film while you wait for its wide release, or just want more to read about real-life lesbian nuns, this is where to get started.
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Talking with Alison Bechdel about Feminist Martial Arts, Lockdown, and Her New Book “The Secret to Superhuman Strength”
“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement. Alison Bechdel shares her process of writing this latest book over the last ten years, collaborating with her partner, and the “huge blossoming of lesbian culture.”
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“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Is a Smart, Feminist Thriller – and Also a Very Cool F*cking Book
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” is a direct response to GamerGate… and a searing indictment of the political nightmare it foreshadowed.