“I feel like so much of the theme of ‘straight women idealizing women’ just came from my dark times in women’s media. This idea that if you have a space that’s just women that it’s somehow superior — that just became so funny to me!”
Through her newest collection of poetry, Fariha Róisín explores her experiences as a queer, Muslim, Bangladeshi woman trying to heal from a childhood of abuse and the pain of generational trauma.
I thought it would be fun to do a ranked list of the 12 queer novels that stood out to me this year. And by “fun,” I mean pleasurably agonizing.
The trans women in Girlfriends often find themselves stuck in the spiderweb of someone else’s drama or self-implosion.
I’ve never really been a horror girlie, but in recent months, I’ve found myself intrigued by YA books that have a horror element.
What does the LGBTQ book landscape look like right now? It’s complicated.
Ruby Tandoh on selling the seaside, nobody knows what’s happening online anymore, Caity Weaver looks for Tom Cruise near the airport, Patricia Lockwood takes her husband to the Bowel Unit, a journey through the annals of “Blurred Lines,” we ask if crosswords can be more inclusive and more longreads for your weekend.
The novel explores queer romance, corporate feminism, and reimagined community at the end of the world.
“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and memory on which new communities are built.”
Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.
“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”
Here is an expansive tale of inherited and constructed mythology, queer magic, and gothic girlhood.
“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”
There’s something so intimate and terrifying about mouth horror.
“I feel a sense of belonging among things that are terrifying and cause fear and cause chaos.”
I’d recommend suggesting it to as many well-meaning cis people as you possibly can.
Baking aside, my favorite thing about Love At 350° is the fact that the main characters are women over 40.
Reading picture books was a way I connected with my son when he was a preschooler, and I was able to teach him about things like racism, empathy and of course, LGBTQ+ issues.
Author Kristen Arnett writes on growing up in a house where books were banned and becoming a queer librarian in Florida.
Isle McElroy’s new novel provides a nuanced approach to gender within its body swap premise.