Read All Of The Books: The Fall 2013 Queer Books Preview
The 50 most essential queer books coming this fall.
Things I Read That I Love #88: Whatever Was Shattered That Day
Topics include Kiese Laymon, black dolls, police stealing your shit, health care, strong female characters, asset forfeiture, the poorest rich kids in the world and death.
Read a F*cking eBook: Lesbian Romance Under $5
There is a time and a place for great literature. This isn’t it.
Soap Opera + Clue + Lesbians = Mariel Cove Season 2, Your New Beach Read
Ali’s Team Pick: The content is very much Clue + Soap Opera, but the style recalls lesbian pulp + the final season of the L Word. I’m only on the first episode, but I’m already wondering who killed Jenny (so to speak).
Team Pick: Vaginal Fantasy Discusses “Tipping The Velvet” With Hannah Hart
Felicia Day, Hannah Hart, and your other favorite geek girls are talking about Tipping the Velvet!
Things I Read That I Love #87: The Cranky, Smart Soulmate Every Aspiring Artist Pines For
Topics include Creedmor Psychiatric Center, San Francisco, Jeanette Walls, LSD, Eddie Ellis, The O.C., housesitting, selfies, rape in a Mennonite community, Texas, the lottery and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #26: Summertime, and The Reading is Easy
The books of Orange is the New Black, diversity in kids’ books, heroic librarians, subtle ways of convincing those around you to read your favorite childhood novels and more.
Jeanne Córdova’s “When We Were Outlaws”: Who Says the Second Wave’s Not Sexy?
“Being an activist leader brought dozens of women to my bed,” Córdova recalls. “Power seemed to attract people, and my political life put me at the center of the action.”
Three Reasons This Intersex Lesbian Loved Abigail Tarttelin’s “Golden Boy”
Some have criticized Tarttelin’s protagonist as being unbelievably undisturbed and mainstream, but as someone who actually is intersex, I found his character so believable that I thought for a minute she might have modeled him after me!
Things I Read That I Love #86: An Outsider Is Likely To See Things That Insiders Will Not See
Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and more!
Things I Read That I Love #85: Cut-Out Dolls For Grown-Up Girls
Topics include Shirley Jackson, paper dolls, disaster reporting in Haiti, HIV/AIDS, the Worst of White Folks, Rick James, exes on social media, working at a men’s magazine and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #25: War and Peach
This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.
Definitely Read “What Makes a Baby” To Any and All Children
Because it’s not just sex education. It’s life education.
Read a F*cking Zine: 50 Zines by Queer People of Color
POC Zine Project presents a massive list of zines, plus info on where you can get them and so much more. Zines for days!
Things I Read That I Love #84: What If We Acknowledged Those Fears?
Topics include Walter White, manic pixie dream girls, economics, shyness, Kerry Washington, shyness, Jonestown, racism and mercy, the future of journalism, affirmative action and more!
Read a F*cking Literary Journal: Prose & Lore
Audacia Ray’s Red Umbrella Project, an organization seeking to amplify the voices of sex workers through media, advocacy and storytelling, publishes a literary journal. And it’s great.
Things I Read That I Love #83: Sometimes I Think, This Is Really Chloë-ish
Topics include Cosby sweaters, depression, The Chive, Chloë Sevigny, Gabby Hoffman, PTSD, murder in San Bernardino County, undocumented immigrant activism and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #24: Let’s All Crush On Imogen Binnie
Queer comics, a zine pop-up shop, new books to read, Judy Blume and more.
Orson Scott Card Should Consider Re-Reading “Ender’s Game”
“What if you’d like to let your loyalties walk some middle tightrope, where you can keep the good stuff about this book you loved while also turning your back on its creator? What’s the best way to hate the player and love the Game?”
Read A F*cking Book: Yoko Ono’s “Acorn” Can Help You Help Yourself
Charlotte’s theory was that it was up to us to use what we had around us – what the universe gave us – to find answers or come to peace with a lack of an answer. Mine was that people should beg for help. Acorn is for people ready to stop begging.