Lez Liberty Lit Is Joining a Silent Bookclub
Silently reading en masse, language and citizenship, writers remembering Toni Morrison and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Evaluating Everything
YA trans literature, a new national Canadian literature by women, how to evaluate what you see and hear and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Study Your Own Hunger
Feeling like a stranger in your body, on M.F.K. Fisher and joy in eating and writing, beach reads and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Seeking the Sublime, or Something
Writing women’s sexuality in literary fiction, digital minimalism, queer summer reading and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is All About Summer Reading
What a beach read is anyway, a new book about Los Angeles BDSM, the most cursed days for writers and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Detective Work
Queer language before we had queer language, a new generation of villainous women, why money doesn’t save artists, the best bad women in fiction, tons of translated titles and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Would Rather Have Friends Than Grammar
“You can have friends or you can correct people’s grammar.” Plus poems about soft bodies on a planet in peril, an argument for binge reading and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Under, and Lost
Carmen Maria Machado, writers’ roles in addressing climate change, why you don’t need to publish a book by 30, a liberated Cinderella, and more!
Lez Liberty Lit Is Cussing Like No One’s Listening
Writing and money, machines learning from our texts (and replicating our power structures), whether books are clutter and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Checking Out These Hot Literary Rivalries
Getting real about the financial realities of writing, creative forces of subculture, K-pop, the branded ephemera of Frida Khalo, and shedding books to survive academia.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Investigating Creative Sustainability
A website that generates short stories based on phone numbers, the feminist Western, financially sustaining a creative life, books to read before “The L Word” comes back, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Writing Honestly About The Body
“Why are we so quick to conclude that marginalized writers’ work is autobiographical?” Plus books about love triangles, a secret lesbian code, why you need to start writing letters to trans people in prison and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Imagining a Safer Future
Still mourning Mary Oliver. Plus why “books” are not a personality, the mood of reading, feminist bookstores to support right now and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Full of Its Past Selves
A humble argument for not counting how many books you read. Plus: Lin-Manuel Miranda saved a bookstore, Mari Kondo doesn’t actually want you to get rid of all your books, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Creative Metabolism
The creative process, insomnia, books to read in 2019 and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Going South
Finding queer southern lit, how the queer writers of the ’60s and ’70s shape Patrisse Cullors’s political work, the best of 2018 book lists and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Toxic
The word of the year, the curiosity crisis in schools, the art of seeing, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Against Prison Book Bans
Limiting access to books in prisons is bad for everyone, what happens when you wreck a library book, the best time to write, and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Madness, Witches, and Burned Queer Books
A literature of women’s madness, witchy books to read right now, why buying books won’t save independent bookstores and more.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Into Unlikable Women
Loving unlikable women in literature, talking about horror, new poetry by Ursula K. Le Guin, how to start making zines, and more.