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Six contributors to Best Lesbian Erotica Volume 5 tell us about how they think about erotica as queer writers. The book came out on Dec 8, so can get your personal and gift copies in time for the holidays.

Are they literary heavy hitters for which you’ll need a thesaurus and previous experience reading Nietzsche? No! Are they fun romps through a winter wonderland with queer characters? Yes! Are said characters often trapped in places and hate each other at first but then fall in love and there’s really no risk except that which makes the love even more defined? Yes!

Here, thought you might need this.

It’s truly magical when you can find a novel with lesbian or bisexual or queer characters that speaks to you and tells a damn good story.

“One way we can change the narratives around our sexuality and our erotic bodies is by taking up space as sexual beings and celebrating other women and femmes doing the same.” This zine is on it.

Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.

If witches are a way to tell stories about women and power, vampires are a way to tell stories about women and sex.

Boy do y’all love to read about rope bondage!

“The path of least resistance is to write off 50 Shades of Grey as harmless fluff, but frankly, after editing over one hundred novels full of distortions and abuse, I don’t think I could respect myself if I did so.”

No, I do not know Virginia Woolf’s official stance on bras. However, let’s put it this way: she wrote that a woman needed five hundred pounds and a room of her own to write fiction—not five hundred pounds, a room of her own, and an uncomfortable, expensive, and otherwise constraining undergarment. Enough said.

Libraries give us the chance to know something about ourselves and we love them.

No matter what your reasons are, or where your piece winds up, we think it’d be cool if you got to write about sex with us.

“While we can’t see what’s going on beneath the table, their physical reactions reveal that there is definitely a vibrator involved.”

Mariel Cove is a sexy new erotica serial by and for queer women, which means I had to have it immediately.

“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.”

“Oh, to be ready for it, unf*cked, ever-f*cked.”

She found out from her friend, ‘Kay Ryan you won a Pulitzer,’ on the phone. She won for her volume “The Best of It.”

“I kinda only care about lesbian poets.”

Mary Oliver writes poetry about nature. Both kinds of nature.