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Things I Read That I Love #137: We Don’t Do Dumb Things Like That To Start The Day

Topics include the case for reparations as explained by Ta-Nehisi Coates, AM Homes, a Vine romance gone wrong, how to be a writer, turning 30 and more!

By Riese| July 25, 2014 | 14 Comments
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Lez Liberty Lit #49: Spend More Than 19 Minutes Reading

Why queer characters and themes in YA hasn’t translated to mainstream fiction, literature as propaganda, the Beyoncé of poetry, a discussion of systems of oppression and more.

By Carolyn Yates| June 27, 2014 | 5 Comments
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100 Things That Are Orange, Ranked

Orange is the new orange is the new orange is the new orange is the new orange you gonna say banana? So, this is what we did today.

By Riese| June 5, 2014 | 59 Comments
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Lez Liberty Lit #40: A Page-Turner At Heart

Novels in one sentence, “Hild,” libraries, queer poetry, semi-colons, classic literature reenacted by Lego, schools facing funding cuts for making students read queer literature and more.

By Carolyn Yates| February 22, 2014 | 5 Comments
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Lez Liberty Lit #33: The Novel Is Not Dead

This week in lit news: reports that novels may or may not be dead have been exaggerated, the animated history of the English language, “Love Cake” and more.

By Carolyn Yates| November 15, 2013 | 3 Comments
First Person

This One Time At Queer Writing Camp: All About the 2013 Lambda Literary Retreat

What I learned from a week on a hilltop with 50 queer writers.

By SJ Sindu| August 24, 2013 | 15 Comments
Books

Read All Of The Books: The Fall 2013 Queer Books Preview

The 50 most essential queer books coming this fall.

By Carolyn Yates| August 21, 2013 | 40 Comments
Books

2013 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced

This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening.

By Carolyn Yates| June 4, 2013 | 5 Comments
Books

37 Books By, For, or About Bisexual or Otherwise Non-Monosexual People

Here you’ll find academic books and nonfiction books documenting the experiences of bisexual people, fiction or memoir that depicts bisexual people and a few online resources!

By Rachel| May 25, 2013 | 195 Comments
Books

See The Fascinating Evolution of Cover Art From 12 Legendary Queer Books

Looking back at a century of cover designs from all over the world for beloved queer books like Tipping the Velvet, Orlando, The Color Purple, Annie on my Mind, Rubyfruit Jungle and more.

By Riese| May 9, 2013 | 27 Comments
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Lez Liberty Lit #16: We Log Onto Facebook In Order To Live

Lambda Literary Award Finalists, Lean In, Sister Spit, performance-enhancing drugs for writing, outsider lit for girls, bookish cures and so much more!

By Carolyn Yates| March 21, 2013 | 12 Comments
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Lez Liberty Lit #15: A Blind Date With Literary Knickers

Underwear from lesbian fiction, a defence of reading, queer love letters, killer courses and more.

By Carolyn Yates| March 7, 2013 | 4 Comments
Books

Lez Liberty Lit #14: I Love The Smell Of Novellas In The Morning

Batwoman’s lesbian wedding, queer fiction for Black History Month, Jeanette Winterson on Virginia Woolf and confessions from an analogue-obsessed book sniffer, book cakes and so much more!

By Carolyn Yates| February 21, 2013 | 14 Comments
Books

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!

By the team| December 11, 2012 | 60 Comments
Books

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Malaika, Contributing Editor

Is it too much to say Pippi Longstocking made me the woman I am today? No, no, it isn’t at all.

By Malaika| December 11, 2012 | 21 Comments
Books

Lez Liberty Lit #8: I Never Thanked You, Batman

In this week’s Liberty Lit: a new book vending machine, Google poetry, queer writers of colour, free short fiction, a review of a Clueless spin-off novel and more.

By Carolyn Yates| November 29, 2012 | 8 Comments
Books

Lez Liberty Lit #6: Read More Know More

This week in books: It’s NaNoWriMo! Also, East Coast booksellers deal with Hurricane Sandy, comic books and gay characters, copyright, Random Penguin House, Gore Vidal and what we’re reading.

By Carolyn Yates| November 1, 2012 | 9 Comments
Books

This NSFW Video Of Teresa Reading Jeanette Winterson Is Relevant To Interests

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

By Kate| October 24, 2012 | 29 Comments
Books

Lez Liberty Lit #5: All Poetry All The Time

In this week’s liberty lit: finding comfort in bad books, steampunk and gender identity, an interview with Michelle Tea, a “photographer of books” and the best place to discover new poetry.

By Carolyn Yates| October 18, 2012 | 18 Comments
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Things I Read That I Love #19: Are You Experienced?

Topics include The Daily Mail, Treyvon Martin, Dartmouth fraternity hazing, wilderness camps for troubled teens, bookstores and so much more!

By Riese| March 30, 2012 | 18 Comments
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NSFW Sunday Knows All The Things She Said About Lesbian Sex

“I go to bed like I used to go to karate.”

By Riese| November 28, 2010 | 19 Comments
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