I talked to lesbian author T Kira Madden about her debut memoir, the challenges of writing about family and addiction, and finding a sense of belonging in queer community and in life.

Topics include The National Enquirer, Anne Frank, Larry Nasser and USA gymnastics, how to save a life, our lives on a mattress, food writing, ballet, teen tv dramas and The Oregon Trail.

Topics include what happened to Lindsay Lohan, free giveaways, precocious puberty, sober creativity, The Art of the Pan, The Cauldron, being lost at sea for 51 days, toxic shock syndrome, burnout and so much more!

Topics include murder, a bonkers Christmas light fight, Brendan Fraser, squatty potties, sunburnt Australia, a ’90s San Francisco dyke “gang,” top surgery, why killers kill, alcoholism and so much more!

Whether your thing is queer girl YA inspired by Greek mythology, groundbreaking poetry collections, challenging and mind-expanding critical nonfiction on art, power, illness or design, or weird and dynamic short fiction, this fall brings you some new titles you won’t be able to stop thinking about. 

A subjective beginning exploration into the far-reaching but inconsistent landscape of literary tomboys.

Have you read Stray City by Chelsey Johnson? It’s got great authentic representation of supportive queer community. Here are eight more books featuring queers who show up for each other!

Informed citizens unite!

“I’ve had conversations with brands where they’ve been very explicit about who their customers weren’t. They weren’t plus size people. They weren’t queer people. They weren’t people of color. And those attitudes affect me as well as a black, queer woman.”

Topics include Hello Kitty, female TV detectives, sexual assault, Maya Rudolph, Puerto Rico becoming a tax haven for the rich, obesity, parties in the 80s, and more!

If I could have willed a book into existence, that book would be Stray City — so I talked to Chelsey Johnson about her debut novel and what it’s like to render queer community so intimately for the public.

“I was going to do a story about trans women arming themselves? And all the edits we got back were like, ‘Can your characters look directly at the reader and quote trans murder statistics from last year?'”

Are they literary heavy hitters for which you’ll need a thesaurus and previous experience reading Nietzsche? No! Are they fun romps through a winter wonderland with queer characters? Yes! Are said characters often trapped in places and hate each other at first but then fall in love and there’s really no risk except that which makes the love even more defined? Yes!

A true map, it never says: this is the way to go, what to do. Instead, Piepzna-Samarasinha tells us what has worked for some people at some times, what could be done better, and also what went super wrong.

Mary Lambert talked to Autostraddle about vulnerability, the impossibility of separating the art from the artist, and her incredible new book of poems.

Here are eight non-fiction self-help books about lesbian relationships, partnerships, marriage, and dating!

Can you even believe this list has 68 (!!) upcoming 2019 queer YA books? WOW. No matter what kind of LGBT YA you’re into, there is something on this list for you.

Here are 50 of the best books from this year that are by and about women, feminism or gender and related intersectional issues. There seem to be strong recurring themes of dystopia, anger, and navigating violent structures of power. What a coincidence! 

How two 1970s and 1980s lesbian BDSM books changed the national conversation around feminism, lesbianism, and kink.

Topics include Dr. Death aka Christopher Duntsch, old-school video cameras, the ballroom scene, murder, Supershe island, Why the President Must Be Impeached, the death of Scout Schultz, porn pictures shows and so much more!