Results for: representation
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How Sick Is “Sick Lit”?
“We were thirteen years old, and these stories confirmed our suspicions that the world was a cruel, sad place, riddled with surprise tragedies and untimely deaths.”
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My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Vanessa, Contributing Editor
The writers I like tend to be women who live, or who have lived, in New York, and who write about girls, growing up, and what it’s like to be a human being in this world.
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Autostraddle Book Club: Emily Answers Your “Cameron Post” Questions and We Throw A Feelings-Fest
emily m. danforth answers 36 of your questions about “Cameron Post” and then we’re all gonna talk about the book!
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100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time
You voted and the results are in – the best 100 queer-lady fiction or memoir books of all time!
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Lez Liberty Lit #2: This Week You’re Here, Queer, Reading
This week: Eileen Myles, Emily Books, lesbians in comic books, Lady Business, technology and fiction, and what we’re reading.
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Alison Bechdel Talks In Speech Bubbles With The Rumpus
Rachel’s Team Pick: “You look a lot more friendly in person than you do in your comic.”
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Malinda Lo and Behold: The Autostraddle Interview
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).
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Read a F*cking Book: “No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics”
A definitive collection of queer comics through the past four decades.
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I Read “Trans/Love” And It Was Awesome
“I just realized wow, there’s so much to be said from the whole range of perspectives: trans women and trans men and everything in between.”
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Ann Bannon, Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Autostraddle Interview
“And so while I would have loved to have done what Laura did, to go to New York and try to find myself, I did the more conventional thing, and I think I was not alone in that.”
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Autostraddle Book Club #5: The Hunger Games (Plus Movie Feelings OPEN THREAD)
HI, IT’S HERE, THE MOVIE IS HERE
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Lambda Literary Awards 2012: New Books to Love
The 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! I want to read everything.
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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!
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Autostraddle Book Club #4: We’re Reading Fun Home!
We’re going to read Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and it’s going to be great.
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“Straightening” Gay Characters in Young Adult Fiction: Are YA Books Keeping You a Secret?
Is Young Adult fiction unfriendly to LGBTQ characters? The answer is “absolutely not” or “yes,” depending on who you ask.
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Mary Gray Knows What it Feels Like For Gay Kids in Rural America
“I’m not less gay when I take the rainbow sticker off my car. I just know that if I have that in my car, I’m going to piss off people who are already angry at me.”