“At some point during my childhood, I may or may not have tried to float across a body of water in a wooden barrel. It didn’t turn out well. Thanks for the splinters Pippi Longstocking.”
“If anything, The Edmonton Queen reads as a triumphant fuck you in the face of death and losing people you love before their time.”
Topics include affirmative action, moving to New York from Canada, female boxers, Jonah Lehrer, Vancouver, hormones and K-Pop!
In this week’s liberty lit: finding comfort in bad books, steampunk and gender identity, an interview with Michelle Tea, a “photographer of books” and the best place to discover new poetry.
Topics include Star Trek TNG, Strong Female Action Heroes, crime reporting, poverty in rural America, being trans and homeless and SO MUCH MORE!
“Sex education should tell people how to explore what they want, not just that they should explore.”
“Girls kissing girls in barns, in twisty slides on playgrounds, in abandoned hospitals. Miles City, Montana. The 1990s. Swimming. Summer. Cowgirls. Dinosaur discovering. Ferris Wheels. Conversion therapy. Taco Johns.”
Topics include Harriet the Spy, bipolar disorder, Jerry Sandusky, promiscuous reading, rock criticism, right-wing podcasts and online dating!
This week in lit: banned books, Vagina, and lots of lesbian storylines.
Banned Books Week is like Christmas for me: it allows me to queer my reading like I queer my gender. Party hard with some inappropriate reading!
Leslie’s stories speak to my top interests in life: gay women, the environment, and Canada.
Topics include hipster-bashing, Anna Nicole Smith, stolen bikes, writing non-fiction, teaching kids to write, the Gloucester pregnancy “pact” and so much more!
Maybe we all share the same eyes or the same hearts. Maybe we just share the same vocabulary.
We spent the 80’s and early 90’s with our noses in books, dreaming of being Scout or Molly or Fern or Heidi or Ramona or Harriet or so many more! What are your favorites?
Topics include Kim’s Video, shopping malls, cheating in school, taxes, Burning Man, Bruce Springsteen and, obviously, a horrifying tragedy!
This week in lesbian lit: Project Unicorn, science, keeping a notebook, weekend book festivals, and a new excerpt from Eileen Myles.
In case you’re just dreaming.
There are lots of reasons to read Santa Olivia. Even if you weren’t peer pressured into doing it for A Camp.
From fiction to history to theory, we’ve got your end-of-summer feminist reading needs covered.
Malinda Lo spoke with Autostraddle about her new book Adaptation, diversity in YA, gay girls making out, and how much she loves us (spoiler alert: a lot).