Lez Liberty Lit: The Future Is Not Infinite
Nostalgia as a way to connect with diaspora, we are about to lose memory and history, reading on the climate emergency and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit Is Motivated By Drive (Or Fear)
Is there a difference between drive and fear? Where are the abortion memoirs? What fall books should you definitely read?
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: 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.
Raging Against Cultural Amnesia: tatiana de la tierra and Latina Lesbian Herstory
In the 90s, a collective of Latina lesbians founded two radical, bilingual zines. They made culture, connected activists, and scared the sh*t out of the patriarchy.
8 Books with Bi or Homoromantic Asexual Women Characters
Books with ace homo/bi/panromantic women characters do exist! Here’s a list of eight of these very real and awesome books in genres like romance, fantasy, YA 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!
“When Katie Met Cassidy” Is the Queer Romance We Deserve
Reading “When Katie Met Cassidy” felt like closing a wound left open by other queer/same-sex romances that came before it.
“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.
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?