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Book Features

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!

A.E. Osworth November 14, 2013 31 Comments
Literature

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”

Riese November 8, 2013 33 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese November 8, 2013 11 Comments
Literature

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!

Riese November 1, 2013 11 Comments
Literature

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.

Ryan Yates October 31, 2013 6 Comments
Book Features

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!

A.E. Osworth October 30, 2013 278 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Carmen October 28, 2013 5 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #98: Everything Means Nothing To Me

Topics include Elliot Smith, larping, snuff, Lean In and facebook feminism, the lived history of Concord MA, child sex trafficking, growing up Chinese in West Van and so much more!

Riese October 25, 2013 13 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #97: I Lost My Way, Looking For A Flashlight

Topics include Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Cinnabons, mugshots online, young women in porn, Norman Rockwell, Nina Simone, “white girls” and so much more!

Riese October 19, 2013 7 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #31: Regarding Dinosaur Erotica

This week in lit: YA novels with trans* characters and authors, Canadians winning everything, grammar games, dinosaur erotica and more.

Ryan Yates October 18, 2013 21 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #96: More Hospital Room Than Beach At Sunset

Topics include Dave Chapelle, Ryan Murphy, cities for women, Second Life, 4-chan camgirls, journalism internships, participatory television and more!

Riese October 11, 2013 6 Comments
Book Features

Writing Dirty: You, Too, Can Write About Sex

No matter what your reasons are, or where your piece winds up, we think it’d be cool if you got to write about sex with us.

A.E. Osworth October 11, 2013 7 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Ashley Catharine Is A Pure Poet: The Autostraddle Review of “Year of the Mermaid”

Inside Year of the Mermaid is Ashley’s story. And it’s eerie how similar it sounds to yours.

Carmen October 10, 2013 5 Comments
Book Features

Writing Your Own Prescription: How To Figure Out Your Feelings With Writing

Okay, so you have a pen and paper and some feelings. Now what?

Rachel October 10, 2013 10 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: Rhiannon Argo’s “Girls I’ve Run Away With”

Lo is that girl you had a secret crush on in high school, the one who could skate and wore baggy shorts. And with everything she goes through, you genuinely care about her.

Hansen October 8, 2013 6 Comments
Book Features

Let’s Make “Beyond” The Greatest Queer Sci Fi/Fantasy Comics Anthology Of All Time!

Two queer comic professionals are starting a brand-spanking new anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy comics featuring queer characters and stories. And the best part is, they’re looking for contributions from people like you!

Mey October 7, 2013 10 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #95: Oh, She’s Instafamous

Topics include dead malls, Mary Gaitskill, fear of clowns, Space Jam, teenage girls on social media, dead malls, ‘Real Life’ and so much more!

Riese October 4, 2013 8 Comments
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit #30: We Love Categorizing and Naming Things

This week in lit: reading apps, Beowulf, diversity, that guy who doesn’t teach books by women or queer people and the end of the world.

Ryan Yates October 3, 2013 9 Comments
LGBT Book Reviews

Read A F*cking Book: Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf

Basically, this book is one big giant sex-ed zine, but it’s a book.

A.E. Osworth October 3, 2013 6 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #94: The Stakes Are High, Why Else Would We Write?

Topics include a face transplant, Janelle Monae, business school, Jodie Foster, mattresses, the men who brought 9/11 home, letters to the editor, last meals, writing advice from Rick Bass and moar!

Riese September 27, 2013 15 Comments
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