Lez Liberty Lit #10: I Must Not Let Her Find Me Writing
This week in lit: T Cooper’s book soundtrack, favorite LGBT books of 2012, authors playing in the snow, poems from your cat’s point of view and more.
More Than Words: Láadan
The feminist sci-fi language that never got to jump off the page and do what it was supposed to.
Things I Read That I Love #55: Snow Fall, Snow Fall, Snow Fall
Topics include a deadly avalanche, Johnny & Winona, joy, survivalists, a church abuse scandal, a Mormon reporter on the Romney bus, malls, revealing your HIV status and contemplating psychopathy.
A Custom Fit: So Many Ways To Read A Thing!
There’s no wrong way to read a word, but sometimes there are so many ways it’s hard to choose which fits you best. Let’s review your options so you can always ride the reading rainbow with ease.
Things I Read That I Love #54: Everything Is Natural Now
Topics include drinking on YouTube, Kiki Kanniball, the Spur Posse, EuroDisney, natural death, censorship, online universities and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit #9: The Golden Age Is Now
In this edition of Lez Liberty Lit: the golden age for writers, nostalgia, literary cartography, bookshelves as diaries,
“I Saw Zombies Eating Santa Claus” and the end of the world.
100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time
You voted and the results are in – the best 100 queer-lady fiction or memoir books of all time!
My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Malaika, Contributing Editor
Is it too much to say Pippi Longstocking made me the woman I am today? No, no, it isn’t at all.
Things I Read That I Love #53: You’re Really Gonna Like The First One
Topics include Mormon fundamentalists, plane crashes, studying gangs, LOST, electrocution, nostalgia for YA novels and children’s books, not going to prom and so much more!
My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Riese, Editor-in-Chief
In which all books mentioned herein were published after 1975 and almost everybody is both female and still alive.
Things I Read That I Love #52: The Very Special One-Year Anniversary Edition
We celebrate an entire year of TIRTLs with a look at 32 of my favorite longreads of all time!
My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Hansen, Contributing Editor
I’m a classics kind of girl. I’ve had the same eight favorite authors since I was 18.
Lez Liberty Lit #8: I Never Thanked You, Batman
In this week’s Liberty Lit: a new book vending machine, Google poetry, queer writers of colour, free short fiction, a review of a Clueless spin-off novel and more.
My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Ali, Contributing Editor
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on / And our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
Poetry is Dead’s Queer Issue Speaks Directly To Your Heart
Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, Poetry is Dead Magazine’s Queer Issue is pleasant evidence to the contrary.
Things I Read That I Love #51: More Casual Than Real Life
Topics include alcohol, Barack Obama’s twitter account, LIARS, Grace Paley, competitive eating, reading in bars, pretrial prison detention, Joan Didion and Magic The Gathering!
Read a F*cking Book: Cristy C. Road’s “Spit and Passion”
A memoir by a queer Latina punk about how her favorite band saved her from the pain of being a total weirdo.
Read A F*cking Book: Jeanne Thornton’s “The Dream of Doctor Bantam”
A book in our language.
Books and Art and T Shirts, Together As One. You’re Welcome.
Ali’s Team Pick: Ever want the entire text of a book on a tee shirt? How about on a poster? Me too! This is a thing I want! And Litographs can give it to me!
Sir James Dyson Likes Vacuums, Dislikes French Lesbian Poetry
“Imagine how wonderful it would be to take a class on French lesbian poetry in university, but wait, who’s that British man in a suit, aspirating your French lesbian poetry textbooks into his bag-free vacuum cleaner?”