Results for: love is a lie
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Back to the Beginning: 8 Authors Who Connect Our Past to the Present
Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova curated a reading list just for Autostraddle readers!
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Things I Read That I Love #195: Turning From Something Ugly Into Something Beautiful
Topics include PeeWee Herman, Winona Ryder, “Making a Murderer,” dating TV shows, the 1966 University of Texas shooting and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #196: Apparently I Look Like The Fish-Sandwich Type
Topics include Jay-Z, adult braces, heroin, women & guns, tumblr teens, San Jose, the Titanic, murder, teenagers & social media and more!
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Were We Ever So Young: Rereading Julie Anne Peters’ “Luna” for the Seventh Time
Luna opened a door for me — no, it opened a thousand doors, doors that I’ve been confidently walking through ever since I came out.
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215 Of The Best Longreads Of 2015 — All Written By Women
This should keep your brain busy for quite some time.
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Autostraddle Book Club #8: Let’s Talk About “The Argonauts,” Also Here’s An Interview With Maggie Nelson!
This book is jam packed with awesome. Unsurprisingly, so is Maggie Nelson.
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Things I Read That I Love #182: In The Morning, I Was Eating Peanuts, I Saw A Light
Topics include Issa Rae, mistreatment of workers on H-2 visas, the disaster rescue business, Nevada, Tinder, Hiroshima, the women assaulted by Bill Cosby and more!
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “Mermaid in Chelsea Creek” and the Chelsea Trilogy
“If you adore any of Tea’s other books, you’ll find Mermaid in Chelsea Creek to be every bit as transgressive and illuminating. If you ever escaped into the magical realms created by J.K. Rowling or Tamora Pierce, or if you got hooked on what dystopian YA like the Hunger Games had to say about class and privilege, you’ll relish Mermaid’s intriguing mixture of magic and social realism.”
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Fool’s Journey: Poet Leah Horlick Explores Trauma, Healing and Transformation Through Tarot Symbolism
Poet Leah Horlick’s book of poems For Your Own Good uses the symbolic language of the tarot as a vehicle to express some of the most traumatic experiences of her life. These poems tell the story of an abusive relationship and its aftermath, using tarot cards and tarot symbolism to do so.
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Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: Irena Klepfisz’s “Dreams of an Insomniac”
“If you have a cherished copy of Sisterhood is Powerful on your shelf, or a fascination with the ways tragedies are remembered and forgotten, you’ll enjoy this book.”
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Things I Read That I Love #177: A Kind Of Inoculation Against Future Hurt
Topics include queer mamas and donor sperm, suicide in Palo Alto, Mary Gaitskill and men, orthodontics, black feminism, Baltimore and moar!
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Things I Read That I Love #171: All Of My Fellow Sad Young Literary Girls
Topics include Detroit, Robert Durst, homelessness in San Francisco, lesbians falsely imprisoned on sex abuse charges, Joan Didion and more!
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Lez Liberty Lit #72: Self-(De)Construction
Structuring and restructuring the self through notebooks, the city with the most bookstores per capita, poetry collections that are like documentaries and more.
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Things I Read That I Love #170: Like The Truth Was Such A Pleasure To Step into
Topics include race in Silicon Valley, Ophelia, the Famous Writers School, The Jinx and Serial, the beginnings of the North American slave trade and more!
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Patricia Velásquez, Gay Latina Supermodel, Wants You To Live Your Truths: The Autostraddle Interview
The Venezuelan supermodel, actress and activist talks about her new memoir, coming out now vs. then, inspiring gay Latinas, the kinds of pastries she brought Sandra Bernhard years ago and working on set of The L Word.
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Things I Read That I Love #156: I Am The One Who Waits
Topics include TJ Maxx, Chris Rock, internet trolls, Oral Roberts, Ruth Thalia, Dunkin’ Donuts and more!
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Lez Liberty Lit #61: Snowing Pages
#BlackPoetsSpeakOut, notable book lists, new Harry Potter, we are reading so much and more.
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Fan Fiction Friday: 7 Baby-Sitters Club Femslash Fics to Take You Way Back
Kristy and Mary Ann always belonged together, and don’t you forget it.
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Things I Read That I Love #154: Hides Junk Food All Over Her Bedroom
Topics include international development, Chris Rock, My Little Ponies, water parks, Asian-Americans on TV, the gay wing of the LA County jail, writing POC and MOAR!
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Things I Read That I Love #148: Surrender Your Heart and Your Money
Topics include the US post office, football, the plane that fell from the sky, racism in Canada, fact-checking, Manhattan and moar!