How Will We Save LGBTQ Bookstores?
More and more gay bookstores are closing, which is bad for my bookstore addiction. Let’s talk this out.
Autostraddle Read a F*cking Book Club #3 – Bastard Out Of Carolina
“Oh, but that’s why I got to cut his throat,” she said plainly. “If I didn’t love the son of a bitch, I’d let him live forever.”
Riese’s Team Pick: Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender & Sexual Orientation
“microaggressions are constant and continuing experiences of marginalized groups in our society; they assail the self-esteem of recipients, produce anger and frustration, deplete psychic energy…”
Read a F*cking Book Review – “Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme”
WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
Oscar Wilde’s “Dorian Gray” Gets Uncensored and Totally Gay
Listen up, you heathen bookworms! The Picture of Dorian Gray’s uncensored, homogay tendencies have been restored.
Pure Poetry #35: Lesbian Poet Kay Ryan Wins the Pulitzer Prize
She found out from her friend, ‘Kay Ryan you won a Pulitzer,’ on the phone. She won for her volume “The Best of It.”
Riese’s Team Pick: Longform Does National Magazine Awards
“The only problem with the American Society of Magazine Editors announcing the finalists for its print awards Tuesday is that now I have a really long reading list.”
Stronger Than Yesterday, “Venus With Biceps” Do It Nothin’ But Their Way
So, The “Trapeze Disrobing Act” is basically exactly what it sounds like.
Pure Poetry #34: Of All Poets, Stephen Dunn
In which five of us talk about our favorite poet ever. “Those of us who think we know / the same secrets / are silent together most of the time.”
Pure Poetry #33: Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Marisa Meltzer
“I kinda only care about lesbian poets.”
Read A F*cking Book Club #3: We’re Reading Bastard Out Of Carolina!
We’re going to read Bastard Out Of Carolina and we want you to read it with us!
Pure Poetry #32: Gertrude Stein & Mina Loy
Did you know that Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy were friends? Do you even know who Mina Loy is? I didn’t until about ~5 days ago.
Pure Poetry #31: Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver writes poetry about nature. Both kinds of nature.
Pure Poetry #30: These Poems Are Gay, Just Like You
“You can’t trust lesbians. You invite them / to your party and they don’t come, / they’re too busy tending vaginal / flowers, hating football, walking their golden / and chocolate labs.”
Sarah Kay on TED
“I don’t know if I could change the world, yet, because I don’t know that much about it.”
Pure Poetry #29: Sylvia Plath is Depressing
Once upon a time I hated Sylvia Plath. Now I don’t! How did this happen? The answers lie inside this post…
Pure Poetry #28 : Dorothy Porter
You really need to know about Dorothy Porter. She was an Australian poet, an out lesbian, and basically awesome.
Jess’s Team Pick: The “It Gets Better” Book
The “It Gets Better” campaign is becoming a book. Guess who’s in it? Okay, it’s Autostraddle’s own Gabrielle Rivera!
Pure Poetry #27: Jeffrey McDaniel
“You must nurture the kiss. Turn out the lights. Notice how it illuminates the room. Hold it to your chest and wonder if the sand inside hourglasses comes from a special beach.”
Pure Poetry #26: Lee Harwood
“I like his poetry because it’s kind of all over the place without being noisy about it.”