Which Lesbian Pulp Book Cover Are You?
Find out what mid-20th century gay stereotype you’d be!
Lez Liberty Lit Is Watching Eliza Bright
This is a We Are Watching Eliza Bright appreciation post. Plus: reading in the morning, the collapse of the dream of eternity, learning queer community and more.
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Is a Smart, Feminist Thriller – and Also a Very Cool F*cking Book
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” is a direct response to GamerGate… and a searing indictment of the political nightmare it foreshadowed.
Things I Read That I Love #318: Eternally Hopeful That This Time There Will Be a Snack
Topics include marrying your platonic best friend, the rise of therapy-speak, COVID in prison, Homecoming at HBCUs, abuse documentaries, the road to terfdom, ranking the muppets and more!
Malice’s Lesbian Love Story (and Bitter Realities) Are Worthy Additions to Dark Fantasy Re-Tellings
The dark fairytale re-telling has become an established fantasy sub-genre in its own right, and Malice’s sweet lesbian love story and bitter realities are a more-than-worthy addition.
Joss Whedon and JK Rowling Don’t Own My Queer Narratives
Whedon and Rowling don’t get to lay claim to the stories we wrote, whether they were in fan fiction, on forums, or even just in our own, quiet thoughts. We own the narratives that give us meaning.
Power Is Searingly Political and Personal In Melissa Febos’ “Girlhood”
Secrets, silence, internalized misogyny, power, desire, and the catastrophic — yet very common — ways in which girls are harmed as they grow into women are all themes that Febos examines in “Girlhood,” an essay collection that blends memoir, journalism, and cultural critique.
Lez Liberty Lit: How Do Plague Stories End?
How DO plague stories end? Plus, “non-binary” in Italian, was this one feminist classic actually trash, the Tamagotchi cemetery and more.
How New Anthology “We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival” Honors Sex Workers’ Truths
We Too maps out the underground ecosystems of sex worker survival and self-determination that are literally the building blocks of a new world order.
Forsyth Harmon’s “Justine” Is a Haunting Book About Intense Teenage Friendship
This tiny book is a quiet horror story in which beauty is a terror and friendship is an undoing of the self. The final line has haunted me long past reading it.
Lez Liberty Lit: A Phantom from the Jump
Not reading anything for a week, an interview with jamie hood, bathroom libraries, a short story collection of Sarahs and more.
M/F Romances Featuring Bi+ Women Whose Queer Identities and Communities are Front and Center
“I am looking for content more than simply a small throw-away line that the woman is bisexual. I would love to see bisexual women for whom their queer identities and queer communities are a big part of their life and a notable aspect of the book.”
Things I Read That I Love #317: One Moment Could Be Ecstatic and The Next Perilous
Topics include reviewing the book review, TikTok aesthetics, Choose Your Own Adventure books, Soho House, private school, “A Teacher” and so much more!
The Audacity of Melissa Broder’s MILK FED
Broder’s coming-of age-tale MILK FED is at turns funny, poignant, and squirm-in-your-seat sexy.
Labors of Love and Loss: An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt on the Occasion of “Magnified,” Her Latest Poetry Collection
In Magnified, Minnie Bruce Pratt meditates on “the eternal time of death, the short intense time of work, and the focused, magnified time of the intimacy” shared with her beloved, the late trans lesbian activist Leslie Feinberg.
Lez Liberty Lit Follows Mix Tape Rules
Toni Morrison as an editor; queer sex, food, and obsession; reimagining sex and survival; and more.
For Us and for You: We Want It All Is an Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics and Archive of Trans Literary Movements
In We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel aim to amplify a politics of trans people against capitalism and empire.
EXCLUSIVE: A+ Members, Read a Generous Excerpt of Arkady Martine’s “A Desolation Called Peace” Here!
We’re delighted to be able to share an exclusive EXTENDED excerpt of A Desolation Called Peace in honor of its launch.
Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Loiter
It’s ok not to remember everything that you read, a new fund for Black creatives, and what is it like to explore childhood horror through the lens of queer adulthood?
Surprise Porn and Hospital Parties: The Queer and Trans Pleasure in Marty Fink’s “Forget Burial”
Marty Fink shows how caregiving is activism, disability is sexy and dusty archives are tantalizing in Forget Burial, an essential, highly pleasurable, read.