It’s not up to just anyone. It’s up to sex workers to define their own destiny.

After having been lost to the world for a couple thousand years, two poems written by Sappho have unexpectedly turned up in London following an anonymous collector’s submission to Oxford.

“There’s something really magical about creating the job you want for yourself from scratch.”

The second book to come out of the “Attention: People With Body Parts” project invites survivors of domestic violence to heal through discussions with their own body parts.

“Writing a Rita Mae Brown ‘Sudden Death’ or Jenny Schecter ‘Lez Girls’ was never an option.”

Topics include Okinawa, Fraggle Rock, The Crystal Cathedral, a 55-year-old murder case, job hunting, being an elf at Harrod’s and so much more!

“Maybe years of blogging ruined me, or maybe they created a productive tension.”

Maps, lesbian steampunk recommendations, today’s reason you’ll want to propose to Mallory Ortberg, reading women writers and more.

“After flying 2,678 miles and over the Pacific Ocean, I realized that I was gonna have to rebuild my collection. But this time, it would be digital (and therefore move-proof).”

Topics include Lisa Frank, genetic testing, Blue Star Texas, KidZania, the tragic death of a college freshman, Balthazar, Christopher McCandless Pilgrims and more!

Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and moar!

It evokes the feeling of sitting with your friend at night, sipping red wine and looking in their sketchbook. This looks amazing, you’d say. And you’d mean it and the moment would feel extraordinarily intimate because you feel like these drawings are only for you.

“I am glad to be here with you in 2012. But I am glad someone was there in 1950.”

140 articles and essays to read and save and love, in celebration of the 100th edition of “Things I Read That I Love”

This week in lit: YA novels with trans* characters and authors, Canadians winning everything, grammar games, dinosaur erotica and more.

This week in lit: creepy books to read while we’re all still obsessed with Halloween, 10 years of queer YA, Emily Dickinson, “City of Night” and more.

Topics include Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Cinnabons, mugshots online, young women in porn, Norman Rockwell, Nina Simone, “white girls” and so much more!

This week in lit: trans* poetry, finding Waldo, reviewing books in GIFs, Doris Lessing, closeted characters, riese reads “the circle” and more.

Topics include Elliot Smith, larping, snuff, Lean In and facebook feminism, the lived history of Concord MA, child sex trafficking, growing up Chinese in West Van and so much more!

Canary, a debut collection of queerish short stories from Nancy Jo Cullen, is all about the everyday. And the weird.