Lez Liberty Lit: Empathy Is A Clock
How empathy works, a new quarterly queer book club box, literary sequels, narratives in old letters and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Take Up Space
The beauty of language in translation, reading the classics while black, top 10 books about tyrants for no reason, parties as literary devices and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Silent Book Club
A silent book club, women Vikings, small-press books out in August, Native people in literature, headless women on book covers and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Never Be The Same
Language and oppression, new trans books, organizing your shelves, zine culture and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Dinosaur Flowers
The museum that texts you modern art, What We Lose, what to read, burning your work and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Missing Girls
What you should read this summer, “woke” is in the dictionary now, queer history books in high school and more!
8 Books That Feature Bisexual Women (And Don’t Focus On Their Sex Lives)
Here are eight books about adult bisexual ladies going about their full, complex lives. There are definitely some sexy times to look forward to but sex isn’t the focus of the narrative.
Lez Liberty Lit: Bodies Being Bodies
Janet Mock, Roxane Gay, women’s monstrous flesh, LeVar Burton reading to you, beach versus airplane books and more.
Read A F-cking Book: SJ Sindu’s “Marriage Of A Thousand Lies”
Lucky’s been walking a thin line. She desperately wants to maintain a relationship with her family, and especially with her mother, but she also aches to live as an out lesbian.
Lez Liberty Lit: Does Anyone Know How You Stop Crying
Dystopias are everywhere, Urban Dictionary is racist and misogynist, newly discovered Sylvia Plath poems and more.
How to Live in Paris, Get Kissed a Lot, Write a Memoir About It
“By the end of the seventies, women were in fashion: every Parisian woman, gay or straight, fell in love with women as if it were the most natural thing in the world.”
8 Urban Fantasy Books That Feature Queer Women
These gritty and glittery queer urban fantasy novels feature sex-work activism, genetic experiments, polyamory, erotic antique-postcard painting, sibling rivalry and more — and a ton of queer women characters.
Lez Liberty Lit: Fragile
Meme historians, the necessary fragility of feminism and radical politics, poetry a fatal, first-person queer writing as a way to shift power and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Kinda Gay, Or Really Gay?
Grammar as privilege, cardboard presses, ranking fictional drugs, disability in sci-fi and fantasy and more.
8 Books Featuring Asian and Pacific Islander Queer Women
Looking for clearly queer Asian and Pacific Islander women in fiction? Look no further.
For Runaways, Survivors and Dreamers: “Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars”
Runaways, witches, and girl gangs: a review and conversation with Kai Cheng Thom on her new book, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars.
25 New Queer YA Books To Read This Spring and Summer
Queer young adult fiction is exploding right now, but with so much out there, how can you figure out what to read next? These 25 queer YA novels — including superheroes, romance, small-town mysteries, mermaids, assassins and more — all feature or were written by LGBTQ women.
Lez Liberty Lit: Dissociating Season
Poetry by Precious Okoyomon, living a feminist life, women’s ambition, more inclusive ways to think of feminism and womanism, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Dangerous Stories
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, a scrappy Canadian dictionary, Adrienne Rich on how to live, how to get into queer romance novels and more.
8 Books with Masculine-of-Center Characters and No Sexual Assault
Many books that feature masculine women characters or characters on the trans masculine spectrum show sexual assault. These ones don’t.