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!
Jeanette Winterson
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Read All Of The Books: The Fall 2013 Queer Books Preview
The 50 most essential queer books coming this fall.
2013 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced
This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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!
NSFW Sunday Knows All The Things She Said About Lesbian Sex
“I go to bed like I used to go to karate.”