c c cummings: An Excerpt From Mean by Myriam Gurba
“To read a piece about lesbian e e cummings, you have to fully commit, but you could tell Dr. Brown was scared.”
Things I Read That I Love #248: Good F*cking Luck Fighting Off Those Bowls of Baby Snickers.
Topics include The Olive Garden, Harvey Weinstein, domestic violence, Kink.com, Dirty John the con artist, an immersive Casper mattress experience, essential oils and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: A Peculiar Malfunction
The Nobel Prize is “fun” now, “Her Body and Other Parties,” Shirley Jackson, Rupi Kaur, the most subversive thing a woman can be and more.
Read These Queer Banned Books Right Now
Read queer banned books. Support their authors. And maybe buy an extra copy or two of these and leave them in a school library near you.
Things I Read That I Love #247: A Pit of Pink Snakes That Will Inject Me With Pink Venom
Topics include group chat, murder, Jamaica High School, Rosé, Basic Instinct, libraries, the injustice of the criminal justice system, why cops shoot and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Bodies Are Terrifying
Feminist books to inspire creative resistance, book collecting, writers of color and escaping autobiography, Harry Potter fanfiction feelings and more.
8 Books About Queer Friendships to Snuggle Up With This Fall
Most queer books focus on romantic relationships. These ones are centered on queer friendship.
15 Must-Read Bisexual Nonfiction Books
Whether you’re looking for powerful personal bisexual narratives, insightful political analysis of bisexual issues, or information to help understand bisexuality (yours or someone else’s), there are books in here you don’t want to miss!
The Bisexual Character in My YA Novel Isn’t “Perfect” — Which Is Perfect
Being bi is Gen’s favorite thing about herself. It’s as freeing for her as it’s become for me.
10 South Asian LGBTQ Books That Changed My Life
From fiction to anthologies and histories to graphic novels, the last ten years have shown that telling our own stories is essential to building a community and garnering the strength to live an authentic life.
Things I Read That I Love #246: To Be A Work-in-Progress Is Nearly Unacceptable
Topics include Taylor Swift, Dylan Roof, where your Forever 21 shirts get made, Colin Kaepernick, reading Jane Eyre while black, Milk Bar, the sorrow and shame of the accidental killer, and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Empathy Is A Clock
How empathy works, a new quarterly queer book club box, literary sequels, narratives in old letters and more.
Things I Read That I Love #245: Listening to a Sad Song Can Become a Way of Pushing on a Bruise
Topics include sorority fashions, Taylor Swift, plus-size fashion, being a minority in start-up media, that Piece of Shit Joe Arpaio, Kathy Griffin, emo and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: Take Up Space
The beauty of language in translation, reading the classics while black, top 10 books about tyrants for no reason, parties as literary devices and more.
Read a F-cking Book: Nicole Georges’s “Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home”
“Fetch” is a beautiful love letter to a pet, a coming of age story, and an exploration of all the complexities of what it really means to take care of another living being.
26 Triumphantly ’90s Lesbian Book Covers
What a colorful decade for us all!
Things I Read That I Love #244: How We Want To Taste, How We Wish To Be Known.
Topics include women in the KKK, the Confederate flag, women’s magazines as aspirational employment centers, smartphones & teenagers, Captain EO, murder, the stories we tell ourselves and more.
Lez Liberty Lit: Silent Book Club
A silent book club, women Vikings, small-press books out in August, Native people in literature, headless women on book covers and more!
“Steven Universe: Art & Origins” Offers Us a Glimpse Behind the Scenes of TV’s Queerest Cartoon
It’s an important thing to learn about and acknowledge the people who make the things we love, and this book gives Steven Universe fans an opportunity to do just that.
8 Books Featuring Queer Parents To Read This Summer
The feel-good books centering queer parents you should read right now.