Results for: be the change
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“Alice Sadie Celine” Is a Delectable Queer Sex Novel With a Wicked Sense of Humor
If you’re less into slow-burn and more into the narrative equivalent of a wildfire, this one’s for you.
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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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12 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With
A dozen books — from YA to romance to literary fiction to memoir — that center queer road trips all over the U.S. and abroad.
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16 Gay M/M Romance Novels To Read After “Red, White and Royal Blue”
If you loved “Red, White & Royal Blue,” here’s 15 more gay romance novels, aka m/m romance, featuring two men doing cute and also erotic things together!
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Hayley Kiyoko’s Debut YA Novel Tells Queer Love Story Set in 2006
If I’m being honest, it’s one of the better written celebrity fiction novels that I’ve read (and I’ve read Lauren Conrad’s YA series).
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Short Fiction Playlist: Five Queer Short Stories Featuring Pop Culture
Find sexy pirates, bachelorette viewing parties, and Whitney Houston crushes in these pop culture-packed queer short stories.
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Send Me to Low Femme Paradise
The problem of having to have a body in the world again.
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Speculative Short Fiction Collection “Sweetlust” Disturbs and Delights
This is a deeply feminist work, but it’s not sanitized, commodified feminism. The feminism here is raw, living, harsh and at times, violent.
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The Essays in “Wanting” Show the Power of Vulnerability
Although I have many of them at any given time, I don’t usually speak my desires out loud.
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Lost Lesbian Lit: A Lesbian Novel From the 1950s and the Continued Importance of Maude’s Abortion Episode
Our perception of history is shaped by who writes the stories and who publishes them.
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Congratulations to the 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!
Revisit Autostraddle’s reviews and interviews with this year’s Lambda Literary 2023 shortlisted books and authors.
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Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist
“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”
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In Lesbian YA Debut, Teen Girls Find Love in the Midst of an Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth
The biggest theme in Jen St. Jude’s If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is mental health.
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Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It
Topics include romance scammers, Keke Palmer, the migrant ship, Lorrie Moore, affirmative action, the streaming problem, Lorrie Moore, the Barbie IP and more!
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Things I Read That I Love #336: The Brat Pack, Buying Sperm, Conversational AI and Streaming Wars
Annie Hamilton befriends Tavi Gevinson and gets unhinged about it, the future of streaming, literary it-girls, MTV’s “The Real World,” Colleen Hoover has writer’s block, Kindbody sucks, a really funny piece about a “Conversational AI” conference and so much more!
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Remembering Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Legacy as a Radical Southern Femme
She might have left the South, but she never forgot it, scorned it, or neglected it.
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This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds
If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.
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Rainbow Reading: Lifting Queers, Listen Up! New Sapphic Romance Set in a Gym Is Coming
Plus, an upcoming YA book about a Mexican American nonbinary teen promises love in a taqueria.
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“The Fake” Is a Funny-Sad-Sexy Novel About the Psychological Damage Scammers Inflict
It’s a book about a scammer, but The Fake isn’t trying to hoodwink the reader.
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This Month, We Get Two Sapphic Romances Featuring Black Main Characters
I hope this means there will be more trad pubs looking to publish Black sapphic stories, because my bookshelf is ready.