Lez Liberty Lit: Cannot Resist the Urge to Clean
An everyday trans literature, discipline and creative freedom, fall books previews, lesbian feminist sci-fi and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit: Kink and History
A new history of BDSM. Plus women in translation, the Asian and Asian American literature explosion and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Literary Manspreading, Now for Women Too
Fighting words about literary organizational systems. Plus animals that break into libraries, writers on the books that inspire them, new poetry from Indigenous women and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Library Lovin’
Why conservatives are afraid of libraries, what to read that’s out in August, why writing matters in an age of despair and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Anything Can Be A Beach Read
Tarot and psychotherapy, reading anything at any time of year, give yourself permission not to finish that book you don’t really want to finish and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: The Queer Erotic Debut Novel of the Summer
How queer writers create queer stories, the history of writing as a history of book burning, queer bookstores to visit and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Queer People Deserve Happy Endings Too
It’s fun to delete stuff. Plus: feminist zine culture, a Lumberjanes quiz, the 2017 VIDA count results and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Language as Control
Language is a way to exercise control. Also some Pride reading lists, three Latinx zines, dying languages and more.
24 Queer YA Books Coming Out This Summer and Beyond
The queer YA books you’ll want to read at the beach, the park, and everywhere else this summer!
Lez Liberty Lit: Hypnotic Decay
How lesbian pulp fiction saved lives, Michelle Tea’s Against Memoir, gay love letters, what counts as “well read” and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Going Analog
Nobel-cancelling sex scandals, writing by hand, what to read if you want to read funny women, the myth of women authors with only one good book and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Forget Books
A history of twentieth century women critics, why “being nice” is a scam, queer books for teens, Independent Bookstore Day and more.
Read a F*cking Book Club: Let’s Talk About “When They Call You a Terrorist”
Let’s talk about black studies, queer studies, black queer lives, and When They Call You A Terrorist!
Lez Liberty Lit: Recovering Narratives
New thoughts on South Asian cultural identity in YA, writing recovery and addiction narratives, Joan Didion’s reading list, how Judy Blume taught girls to be feminists and more.
8 Dark Lesbian Mysteries and Thrillers That’ll Give You Deep Chills
These dark mysteries and thrillers featuring lesbian and bisexual main characters focus less on the romance and more on the hair raising on the back of your neck.
Lez Liberty Lit: Possibly Infinite Meaning
Books as medicine or advice, what’s happening to feminist bookstores, addiction and recovery narratives and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: In the Dictionary Like a Dumpster Fire
Complaining about language, a new zine about sisterhood beyond gender, Lambda Literary finalists, “dumpster fire” makes the dictionary and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Reading on an Empty Stomach
How queer books are still marketed to straight readers, horror novels and OCD, OED feelings, feminist fonts, Virginia Woolf’s photo albums and more.
Queers at the End of the World: An Interview with Queer Feminist Fabulist Carmen Maria Machado
Talking about Kristen Stewart, gems, lesbian tropes, Girl Scout crushes, swine flu, the apocalypse and more with award-winning queer writer Carmen Maria Machado.
Lez Liberty Lit: Women and Power
The literature of Ezili and finding lesbians and queers in Caribbean literature, feel(ing) free, new Foucault, taking young women’s love stories seriously and more.