Lez Liberty Lit: Queer People Deserve Happy Endings Too
It’s fun to delete stuff. Plus: feminist zine culture, a Lumberjanes quiz, the 2017 VIDA count results and more.
8 Books with Bi or Homoromantic Asexual Women Characters
Books with ace homo/bi/panromantic women characters do exist! Here’s a list of eight of these very real and awesome books in genres like romance, fantasy, YA and more!
Things I Read That I Love #265: He Was Never Imaginary, He Just Had Bad Timing
Topics include Christian films, NXivm, Caitlyn Jenner, Sesame Street, blood stain pattern analysis, XXXTentacion, The Real World, con-artist Anna Delvey, plus-size clothing and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Language as Control
Language is a way to exercise control. Also some Pride reading lists, three Latinx zines, dying languages and more.
“My Lady’s Choosing” Is the Bisexual Jane Austen Choose Your Own Adventure Novel of Your Wildest Dreams
Lady Evangeline is as capable as ripping your bodice as Sir Benedict Granville, and that’s just one of the brilliant things about this interactive romance novel.
24 Queer YA Books Coming Out This Summer and Beyond
The queer YA books you’ll want to read at the beach, the park, and everywhere else this summer!
I Effing Love “Drawn to Sex: The Basics” by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan
Accessible queer sex education, now available for everyone.
Things I Read That I Love #264: Your Body Was Just Goofing Off and Drinking Sugar
Topics include journalism, Gloria Allred, Joan Didion, Ryan Murphy, MURDER, We Rate Dogs, Reading Rainbow, Raffi, movies about qpoc, internet writing, Action Park and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Hypnotic Decay
How lesbian pulp fiction saved lives, Michelle Tea’s Against Memoir, gay love letters, what counts as “well read” and more.
9 Books That Got Us Through Breakups, We’ll Just Leave Them Right Here For You
Here, thought you might need this.
Juno Roche’s Queer Sex Is an Argument for Erotic Empowerment
Queer Sex, a collection of interviews with trans and non-binary folks on sex, love and intimacy, is a map to erotic empowerment. In this excerpt, author Juno Roche explores her fears, hopes and erotic potential.
Monday Roundtable: Our Favorite LGBTQ Novels
It’s truly magical when you can find a novel with lesbian or bisexual or queer characters that speaks to you and tells a damn good story.
Things I Read That I Love #263: Spindly and Unkempt as a Manson Girl
Topics include Renting a Family, Easy Rider & Alice’s Restaurant, alcoholism, an imposter!, eating disorders, Brad Renfro, Facebook, Bad TV, Janelle Monae and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Going Analog
Nobel-cancelling sex scandals, writing by hand, what to read if you want to read funny women, the myth of women authors with only one good book and more.
7 Super Queer Cookbooks For Your Super Queer Kitchen!
There are thousands of recipes to be explored in these books, and they’re all waiting excitedly to queer your kitchen, so clear off some space on your counters and bookshelves cause it’s time to go shopping and start to change the face of an industry.
8 Action/Adventure Books with Queer Women Main Characters
Check out these queer-women-fronted action and adventure novels, including basically Die Hard but with lesbians, basically The X-Files but with a bisexual love triangle, pirate stories, thrillers and more.
“When Katie Met Cassidy” Is the Queer Romance We Deserve
Reading “When Katie Met Cassidy” felt like closing a wound left open by other queer/same-sex romances that came before it.
The 5 Cookbooks by Women I Couldn’t Live Without
These are full of scribbled notes, neon “make me next” tabs, oil drips, crinkled pages and most of all, recipes that I adore. They’ve brought immense amounts of joy into my life by way of conversations over dinner and memories made while cooking with people I love, and they all contribute to making me a better, happier cook day by day.
Things I Read That I Love #262: Blue Is In Fashion This Year
Topics include weight loss surgery, murder, writer’s block, algorithms for style, David Foster Wallace, The Grenfell Tower fire, how bad Troy sucks in “Reality Bites,” deaf culture and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Forget Books
A history of twentieth century women critics, why “being nice” is a scam, queer books for teens, Independent Bookstore Day and more.