65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018
Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.
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Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2015
Read these f*cking books.
Hidden Gems of Queer Lit: “Mermaid in Chelsea Creek” and the Chelsea Trilogy
“If you adore any of Tea’s other books, you’ll find Mermaid in Chelsea Creek to be every bit as transgressive and illuminating. If you ever escaped into the magical realms created by J.K. Rowling or Tamora Pierce, or if you got hooked on what dystopian YA like the Hunger Games had to say about class and privilege, you’ll relish Mermaid’s intriguing mixture of magic and social realism.”
PHOTOESSAY: “Modern Conception” Perfectly Captures Queer Pregnancy, Features Michelle Tea
“In contrast to cheesy maternity shoots or tabloid “baby bumps,” Sophie’s photos show our animal hunger, our exhaustion and our inability to keep up with the housework.”
Top 15 Mostly Queer Most Critterish Humans Of All Time
A critter is someone who does things that normal people do in a way cuter than the average person.
Also.Also.Also: Brittney Griner’s Makeup Class and Other Stories We Missed This Week
From the OUT 100 to the first lady of Zambia to Michelle Tea’s marriage, it turns out there was a lot of queer shit going down while I was working late nights in the office.
Also.Also.Also: My Mutha’s The Gay, Female Weezy
This week, OINTB continues a takeover while Michelle Tea keeps on being amazing.
Valencia Is The Most Masterful Dyke-Centric Artsy-Weirdo Film I’ve Ever Seen
In which I review Valencia and talk to Michelle Tea for 15 minutes. // “We were not gay. We were queer. We were dykes. We were really against the man and capitalism and always aware of everything that was unfair and unjust.”
The ALTERNATIVE Autostraddle Hot 105: Hotties You Will Like Who Also Like Girls
105 more humans for you to have awkward crushes on.
Lez Liberty Lit #23: A Spectacle To Taste
Queer book recommendations, oral histories, poet-prostitute profiles, if Gertrude Stein reviewed beer and more.
Lez Liberty Lit #21: A Lemon Wrapped Around A Gold Brick
In this edition of Lez Liberty Lit: the best literary cocktails, reading and forgetting, remembering the queer dead and more.
Lez Liberty Lit #20: Remember Library Lesbianism
An excerpt from Michelle Tea’s new novel, chicken lit is the new chick lit, library lesbianism, sexism in publishing and more.
Swapping Spit: The Sister Spit Anthology & A Few Words with Michelle Tea
“This book is a queer anthem. It flashes bright neon lights and blows out plumes of dirty glitter.”
What if Michelle Tea Procreated
What if everyone awesome had babies. Then what.
Preview Of Laurie Weeks’ Zipper Mouth: Gay, Obsessed, Addicted
Laurie Weeks’ debut novel Zipper Mouth is coming out this October. You might have feelings about this.
Pure Poetry #30: These Poems Are Gay, Just Like You
“You can’t trust lesbians. You invite them / to your party and they don’t come, / they’re too busy tending vaginal / flowers, hating football, walking their golden / and chocolate labs.”
Sister Spit’s 2011 Tour is Happening; You Should Go
Subversive artists! Queer revolutionaries! Poets! Authors! Merch! And it’s not even your birthday!
Pure Poetry #10 : Michelle Tea
“hey now tall girl
aren’t you bored
all by yourself in your messy room”
Sister Spit’s New Generation of Queer Poets & Rebels: The Autostraddle Interview
In 1997, Michelle Tea and Sini Anderson started Sister Spit – a spoken word tour full of the best queer writers and poets around. Twelve years later, Sister Spit: The Next Generation is taking over the world/my heart. On October 5, the tour came to Phoenix and I interviewed them for you, which is actually a big deal because it was the first face-to-face interview I’ve ever done and I was scared, y’all.