It sounds like Robin Hood meets Fast and the Furious and very GAY.

We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.

Writer Blair Braverman talks preppers, survival, queer love, and her gripping new novel, Small Game.

Today is July 1 which means that Pride Month is officially over, but here at Autostraddle we like talking about gay books 24/7/365.

Author Jeanna Kadlec talks about her new memoir Heretic, the loss of leaving a life, gay Bible stories, and more.

Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.

Autostraddle recently spoke with Tina Horn via video call to chat about the first volume of SFSX, her myriad influences, building community around art, the sex worker rights’ movement, and incels.

Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.

When someone I know is dealing with a difficult situation, I typically feel extremely “Put me in, coach!!!” But when I am the one in a difficult spot? Well, then, thanks so much for offering but I’m perfectly fine to handle this on my own!!! The fact is, asking for/accepting help is incredibly difficult for a lot of us—even those of us who know, logically, that no one can get through life alone.

“Transformative justice”—the idea that communities can resolve and repair harm and abuse, as well as transform the conditions that led to them, on their own without the necessity of State intervention or by replicating the State’s carceral form of justice—looks good on paper, but there are still so many big questions.

Pleasure Activism offers up a multitude of tactics for which to embody pleasure, claim it as a central and essential liberatory practice, and a sustainable one for the long-term road trip of justice work.

“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”

In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.

Runaways, witches, and girl gangs: a review and conversation with Kai Cheng Thom on her new book, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.

“In the words of Notting Hill, “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” Or more realistically, I’m just a girl, standing in front of KFC, praying that it’s open.”

AfterEllen is a part of a legacy of brilliant publications created by passionate lesbian, queer and bisexual women that unfortunately no longer exist, but were cool for a while.

What does Monster have to do with The Hunger Games and Katniss Everdeen? You’re about to find out.

Illustrated owls, Judy Blume’s new novel, the Lambda Literary Award winners, what Riese and Rachel have been reading, and more.

Topics include Dollywood, women writers, migrant farmers, Dorothy Allison, the Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram, the American military and more!

140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”