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!
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!
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!
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.
Because it’s not just sex education. It’s life education.
POC Zine Project presents a massive list of zines, plus info on where you can get them and so much more. Zines for days!
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!
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.
Topics include Cosby sweaters, depression, The Chive, Chloë Sevigny, Gabby Hoffman, PTSD, murder in San Bernardino County, undocumented immigrant activism and moar!
Queer comics, a zine pop-up shop, new books to read, Judy Blume and more.
“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?”
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.
Topics include food fluffers, music in prison, abortion, video games, “The Room,” publishing black literary fiction, picky eaters and so much more!
“Every thing that grows, grows differently. Each of us grow in our own way.”
Topics include temp workers, Dennis Rodman, Phish, Kanye, Wilcox County’s first integrated prom, murder, fertility, Mary McCarthy and so much more!
Queer book recommendations, oral histories, poet-prostitute profiles, if Gertrude Stein reviewed beer and more.
Topics include North Korea, gun control, animators from Mormon country, freelancing, the long con, the murder of Jam Master Jay, Brittney Griner, true war stories, indie bookstores and so much more!
Cara’s Team Pick: It’s illustrated, it’s interactive, it’s informative, and it’s not even done yet!
Topics include Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), web developers, poetry and death, meth, psychic Sylvia Browne, Coyote Ugly, Wikipedia, The Whole Earth Catalog and more!
Where to find queer books to read, starting books but not finishing them, perceived gender, 1984 and more.