28 Books About Gay Geography That’ll Take You On Journeys Through Time and Place
If you like lesbian history as much as I do, then you’ll love all these books about queer life in various towns, states, cities and countries. Your input is welcome!
Things I Read That I Love #21: Eat, Sleep, Read
This week’s topics include gay reparation therapy, online sports message boards, Thomas Kinkade, Suzanne Collins and being a better writer!
15 Women’s Magazines That Don’t Suck, Are Awesome
Celebrating the women’s magazines that keep pumping out smart, innovative and well-designed stuff against all odds. US Weekly is not on this list.
Sinclair Sexsmith on “Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica”: The Autostraddle Interview
“The questions quickly became, what is BDSM? And what is lesbian? I’m not sure I know the answer in general, but I figured out a context for this anthology to be born into, some parameters about kinks and fetishes and gender.”
Things I Read That I Love #20: Happy Birds
Topics include “a Web Site named Livejournal”, Münchausen by internet, the publishing, industry risky writing, teaching film in prison and Angry Birds.
Looking into Writers’ Bedrooms, Personal Style, Lives
Carolyn’s Team Pick: Flannery O’Connor’s looks like it would be good for napping.
Things I Read That I Love #19: Are You Experienced?
Topics include The Daily Mail, Treyvon Martin, Dartmouth fraternity hazing, wilderness camps for troubled teens, bookstores and so much more!
The Days Of Yore: Writers and Artists Before “Making It”
“In high school I worked at McDonald’s. Got fired. I worked at a fabric store. Got fired. In college I worked as a custodian. Got fired. Wasn’t too good at the physical stuff. One person asked me if I was so bad on purpose or whether I was really that uncomprehending of the relation between soap and water.”
Adrienne Rich is Dead
“She died / a famous woman / denying // her wounds / denying // her wounds / came / from the same source as her power.”
Watch Rachel Maddow on Letterman, Listen to Her on Fresh Air, Then Win a Copy of “Drift!”
Win a signed copy of Rachel Maddow’s new book!
Things I Read That I Love #18: So I Can Vote
Topics include Xanax, Trayvon Martin, waitressing, dystopian fiction, David Sedaris, the HBO show “Girls” and “The Jimmy McNulty Gambit.”
Autostraddle Book Club #5: The Hunger Games (Plus Movie Feelings OPEN THREAD)
HI, IT’S HERE, THE MOVIE IS HERE
Lambda Literary Awards 2012: New Books to Love
The 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! I want to read everything.
Things I Read That I Love #17: Robo-Readers
Topics include law school, real estate, a boy who disappeared, Sothebey’s, Tetris and the TED conference!
For Anyone Who Likes Sex, Feelings, Love Letters, Books, All Of The Above
Carmen’s Team Pick: This is a Melissa Gira Grant appreciation post.
Eileen Myles Still Has It: The Autostraddle Review of “Snowflake / different streets”
“Suddenly it all became very clear to me what made the two books different, what brought them together, and what let them stand alone. And suddenly I was crying.”
Things I Read That I Love #16: Enjoy The Silence
Topics include asexuality, the horrors of delivering Chinese food in NYC, Bill Cosby, women’s novels, Lawrence vs. Texas, post-Katrina Louisiana and the history of the infographic!
Things I Read That I Love #15: Better Late Than Never
This week’s topics include sorority girls, raising kids these days, neuroenhancing drugs, online shopping warehouse working conditions and so much more!
A Very Queer Edition of “Things I Read That I Love”
Topics include “The L Word: Not Your Mother’s Lesbians,” “Straight Girl’s Seduction” and “the ambisexual, heteroflexible teen.”
Art Attack! Read A F*cking Book: ‘The Last Nude’
Ellis Avery’s ‘The Last Nude’ is basically girl-on-girl fictional art history. You’re interested in it.