Sunday Funday Is Celebrating Roxane Gay and Black Panther Forever
Interviews with cast of Pose, queer women in World War II, Janelle Monáe of course, and coming out because you’re in love!
Roxane Gay
65 Queer and Feminist Books To Read In 2018
Your guide to 2018’s queer and feminist books.
The Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2017
2017 has been pretty awesome for a ton of new queer and/or feminist things to read! Here are some of the best.
Black LGBT Women Represent on The Root’s 100 Most Influential People List
When I look at this list, I’m fortified knowing that increasingly we are not being asked to choose between our blackness and our queerness as the movement moves forward. We are no longer being asked to do the work, but keep our faces in the shadows.
A Lifetime of Aftermath: Roxane Gay’s “Hunger” Dares You Not to Look Away
In a time when the word “healing” feels thinner than ever, affixed as it is to too many pictures of skinny, silhouetted yogis on beaches, we need to reacquaint ourselves with the severity of that process. This book is a generous offering to a society that may not know what to do with it.
Also.Also.Also: Maddow, Ortberg, Gay, and Ditto, and Other Stories You Care About Today
Rachel Maddow, Mallory Ortberg, Roxane Gay, Courtney Love, prison visits, America’s favorite pastimes, fat and femme and reshaping the yoga industry, trans and undocumented, some Bustle bullshit, and so much more!
Roxane Gay’s “Difficult Women”: The Necessary Ugliness in Getting There
Gay is far more honest than most about the weird ways we actually solve for love. The necessary ugliness in getting there.
45 Queer and Feminist Books You Need To Read in Early 2017
Everything you want to read.
Lez Liberty Lit: Being Difficult
Love for Roxane Gay, Joan Didion’s literary descendants, the end of the 2016 book lists, a cheat sheet for your ereader and more.
Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2016
Read these f*cking books.
15 Queer/Feminist Books To Read In Early 2016
Welcome to your list of queer/ feminist books coming out from January to July 2016. Roxane Gay, Gabby Rivera and erotica, anyone?
2015 OUT 100 Honors Roxane Gay, Abby Wambach, Hannah Hart, Other Women You Have Crushes On
The Out 100 has revealed 99 of its honorees, including the stars of “Tangerine,” the legendary Lily Tomlin, Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza and your girlfriend Carrie Brownstein.
Lez Liberty Lit #65: Books In Boxes
New Toni Morrison, make a tiny zine, literary podcasts, writing difference and more.
25 Women Who Shook Things Up in 2014
From mounting revolutions to redefining realness, these are 25 women who made waves in the world this year.
Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2014
Definitely read these books.
The Root 100 Features Our Favorites Including Roxane Gay, Janet Mock and Laverne Cox
The Root released its annual list of notable African Americans, and of course it includes some of our favorite movers, shakers and heartbreakers.
Roxane Gay’s “Bad Feminist” Reminds Us We’re All Human
This is bad feminism. And we are better for it.
Also.Also.Also: Your Link Roundup Gets a New Host and Here Are the Stories She Missed This Week
Topics include Tim Cook, The L Word: Mississippi, Shark Week, BGD’s Editor-in-Training program, the 2014 Fields Medal female winner, Kristen Stewart, Sarah Silverman, Samira Wiley and more!
Read a F*cking Book: Late Summer Reading For Queers and Feminists
With new books by Roxane Gay, Hannah Hart, Sarah Waters, Radclyffe and more, there are lots of things to read and talk about.
Ten Books For Queers And Feminists To Read This Spring
Ten important queer and feminist books coming this spring.