Results for: meet up
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Things I Read That I Love #337: Getting Your Ex Back, Trendy Baby Names, Subway Commercials, Etc
Topics include the rise of romance bookstores, the rise of the get-your-ex-back industry, the first celebrity chef, Subway commercials, the Hard Rock Cafe, trendy baby names and more!
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Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind
I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.
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Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Get a Sneak Peek of Amy Spalding’s Upcoming Sapphic Rom-Com ‘On Her Terms’
Check out the first chapter of On Her Terms, a sapphic rom-com with a fake relationship plot.
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Things I Read That I Love #333: Erewhon, Melrose Place, The Bowel Unit, Blurred Lines and Crosswords
Ruby Tandoh on selling the seaside, nobody knows what’s happening online anymore, Caity Weaver looks for Tom Cruise near the airport, Patricia Lockwood takes her husband to the Bowel Unit, a journey through the annals of “Blurred Lines,” we ask if crosswords can be more inclusive and more longreads for your weekend.
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A New Biography Transforms Our Understanding of Audre Lorde and the Genre Itself
“Biographies normativize people,” Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs tells me. “It’s like: this is a person, they were born, they died, their life is linear, they’re only one person. My queer approach doesn’t necessarily agree with any of those things. Does our life begin when we’re born? Does it end after we die? Are we ever one person? Those are questions of queer critique that I live inside of.”
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Author Lydia Conklin on Being Queer in the 90s and Writing Characters in Transitional Moments
“Somebody told me that pretty much everyone who grew up queer, especially in our generation, is a secretive person or has an ability for secrecy.”
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Looking Back on 1970s Lesbian Feminist Film and Sci-Fi To Reimagine the Future
“I mean props to those who are three years old and are like, ‘I’m gay.’ But some of us have to meet some gay people, and sometimes those people are people you encounter in books and archives, they’re not your friends, and they’re not even here on this planet anymore physically, but their ideas are, and that’s really powerful.”
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‘I Want You More’ Traps a Lesbian Ghostwriter in a Manor With a Devious Food Network Star
Talking to Swan Huntley about her new queer thriller “I Want You More,” building a writing career, whether she takes her own advice, the endless internal void, loving food shows despite not being a cook.
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It’s Lit: Queer Youth on an Online Book Club Club That Became Family
“Well the premise combined two of my favorite things: being gay and reading, so I was naturally intrigued.”
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Avery Dame-Griff Is Archiving the Trans Internet
“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and memory on which new communities are built.”
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Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky
“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”
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Omise’eke Tinsley’s “The Color Pynk” Celebrates Black Femme Art for Survival
A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming.
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Lost Lesbian Lit: Mommy Issues! At the Women’s Writers Retreat
Lost Lesbian Lit is a series of essays about lesbian literature from before 2010 with fewer than 25 ratings on Goodreads.
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Things I Read That I Love #328: You Never Called That Girl Back Even Though You Were Dating
Topics include the mall, Tinder, Gabby Petito, the abuse scandal at an acclaimed L.A high school, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Crime Junkie, amusement parks, dog breeds and more!
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“Ingredients for Revolution” Offers a New Look at Social Justice Movement History
Cafes became hubs for marginalized members of the communities they were in, and learning their history helps us understand the power of their impact.
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Author Mac Crane on the Eroticism of Basketball and Writing Queer and Trans Pleasure
“Basketball is extremely hot, and I wanted that to come through in the book.”
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Yes, Gays Can Drive: Mechanic Shop Femme Demystifies Car Ownership
“So I really look at this book as a guide for the average car owner for regular people like you who aren’t out there trying to fix their cars in their driveways, who aren’t trying to soup up their vehicles, who do not have a passion for cars.”
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Ciara Smyth’s Queer YA Books Remind Me of Being a Teenager
The Falling In Love Montage (2020) and Not My Problem (2021) are as hilarious as they are moving.
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Let’s Hear It for the Disaster Bisexuals
My confused disaster of a teenage self could have used stories from this new canon of disaster bisexuals, stories about sexually fluid people in all their imperfections.
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.