“Black on Both Sides” Disrupts Black and Trans History as You Know It
Blackness and transness interconnect in this radical history of not just black and trans people, but also where beliefs about black and trans people come from.
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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!
Read a F*cking Book: N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy Is a Revolution
N.K. Jemisin’s multiple Hugo Award-winning Broken Earth trilogy, which ended with The Stone Sky just a few months ago, asks the opposite of the questions posed by other epic fantasy series. What if the world doesn’t deserve to be saved? What if the most righteous thing a hero can do is watch the earth burn?
Read These 10 Books with Queer Witches
Queers and witches just go together.
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.
8 Feel-Good, Comfort Reads Featuring Lesbians of Color
Here are eight light-hearted books featuring queer women (mostly lesbian) characters of color. Some are YA, some are romance, and one is science fiction/fantasy. All are fluffy gay goodness!
Mal Ortberg’s Creepy New Book Is Coming Out and Mal Is Too
If The Merry Spinster seems almost fixated on gender, it’s because Ortberg began participating in gender therapy and exploring identity while writing it, and “It turns out I’m trans!”
“Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History” by Vashti Harrison Is the Black Herstory I Needed as a Child
“Close your eyes and imagine for one moment a world where little black girls spend their entire childhoods seeing women like the ones they will become in just as many books, television shows, awards ceremonies, universities, political offices, magazines, advertisements and leadership positions as their white peers do. Really picture it, and then ask yourself: what would that future look like?”
8 Books to Read If You Loved Carmen Maria Machado’s “Her Body and Other Parties”
Here are eight queer short story collections that embody the same kind of creepy, “bodies as horror,” fabulist, dark fairy tale feel that Machado’s book does.
Read a F*cking Book Club: We’re Reading “When They Call You A Terrorist”!
We’re gonna read Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ new memoir and it’s gonna be great!
Read These 8 Works of Intersex Fiction Right Now
Eight stories that feature intersex characters for you to read right now.
65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018
Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.
8 Soft Femme Memoirs for Your Femme But Not Too Femmey Needs
The following eight memoirs, which deal with gender, food, writing, relationships and more, reflect soft femmes, tomboy femmes, chapstick femmes, and other femmes who aren’t all that femmey.
Read A F*cking Book Club: Talking with Ariel Gore About “We Were Witches”
We’re discussing We Were Witches and sharing a brilliant interview with author Ariel Gore. Come join Autostraddle Book Club – the comments are wide open and we wanna hear everything you’ve got to say about this book.
8 Queer Speculative Short Story Collections
Love queer speculative fiction but don’t have the time or energy to read novels or series? Then these eight collections and anthologies of queer speculative short fiction are for you!
25 LGBT History Books to Add to Your Epic Queer History Reading List
Celebrate LGBT History Month by reading LGBT history books!
Myriam Gurba’s Floating World in “Mean”
Gurba’s writing feels devastating and holy and hilarious all at once, like a dead sea scroll that is as fun to read as an old issue of Playboy.
Read A F*cking Book Club: We’re Gonna Read “We Were Witches!”
We Were Witches by Ariel Gore is an autobiographical novel that uses magick spells and inverted fairy tales to combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans. We’re going to read it together this month!
c c cummings: An Excerpt From Mean by Myriam Gurba
“To read a piece about lesbian e e cummings, you have to fully commit, but you could tell Dr. Brown was scared.”
Read a F-cking Book: Nicole Georges’s “Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home”
“Fetch” is a beautiful love letter to a pet, a coming of age story, and an exploration of all the complexities of what it really means to take care of another living being.