Things I Read That I Love #220: The Jaws That Closed Only To Chew Gum
Topics include Jared Kushner, Mike Pence, Trump Country, health care, CULT MURDERS, The Spur Posse, Tiffany from America’s Next Top Model, Sqirl and more!
Lez Liberty Lit: The New Comics Sans
Black artists and America, (your) feelings about typography, writers resisting, a history of feminist bookstores, representation in comics and more.
8 Lesbian BDSM Novels to Curl Your Toes (and Maybe Melt Your Heart)
Spend an evening with a good book and a paddle.
45 Queer and Feminist Books You Need To Read in Early 2017
Everything you want to read.
Things I Read That I Love #219: We Were Good As Married In My Mind
Topics include ’90s nerd masculinity, One Day At A Time, a grandmother who liked poison, Backpage, the Gawker lawsuit, Donald Trump in 1999, John Waters’ childhood home, corporate vet clinics, puppy mills and so much more!
“American Hookup” Trades Moral Panic for Real Talk About Sex in College
This book is a must for college students, sex nerds, and activists alike — especially if your Trump resistance involves sex education, sexual assault prevention, or reproductive rights.
“Goodnight Moon” Is Gay: Margaret Wise Brown Was A Bisexual Badass, Y’all
Goodnight Moon started out as a sad gay love poem.
Lez Liberty Lit: Being Difficult
Love for Roxane Gay, Joan Didion’s literary descendants, the end of the 2016 book lists, a cheat sheet for your ereader and more.
Rebel Girls: “The Crunk Feminist Collection” is the New Year’s Read Feminists Need
This is the year the resistance takes shape. And for feminists looking for a roadmap, The Crunk Feminist Collection is the newly-printed guidebook that sets the path.
Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2016
Read these f*cking books.
Things I Read That I Love #218: Like Flirting With A Sad Encyclopedia.
Topics include Supreme streetwear, covering the Donald Trump campaign, yearning to leave the suburbs, Monica Lewinsky, David Foster Wallace, exotic dancing and more!
9 Lesbian Romance Audiobooks To Warm Your Heart On Chilly Nights
Looking to listen to some lesbian romance as you travel (or don’t) this week? Need to take a break from it all and escape into your headphones? Here are the 9 lesbian romance audiobooks you’ve been waiting for!
Lez Liberty Lit: Reading Fever
What counts as trans literature, the Baby-Sitters Club’s feminist legacy, weird stuff in old books, a guide to being a tomboy and more.
Walking and Talking, Kicking and Screaming: An Interview with Ruth Curry of Emily Books
“If I saw my writing career through the eyes of a mediocre white man I’d be, like, that dude would be fucking high on himself constantly.”
Things I Read That I Love #217: Outcasts, Weirdos, Dweebs, Punks, Shy Kids, Cartoon Fanatics, and Serial Fidgeters
Topics include sleep, “my president was Black,” farm-to-table restaurants, Betsy DeVos, Pee Wee Herman, Journey into the Imagination, Chicago State University and so much more!
Monstering Magazine Turns Our Pain as Disabled Women and Nonbinary People Into Power
Monstering is the first ever magazine for disabled women and nonbinary people — and if that’s you, they want to see your work!
When Death Makes You Kind: Beyond Survival In Gwen Benaway’s “Passage”
“In the words of Notting Hill, “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.” Or more realistically, I’m just a girl, standing in front of KFC, praying that it’s open.”
Holigay Gift Guide 2016: (More) Books for the Queer Academic
What do you get for the person who is perpetually tired, underpaid, and overworked? More books, obviously.
Lez Liberty Lit: The Premise for Empathy
Stealing diaries; the oldest library; a conversation on women, bodies and writing; a peek at Roxane Gay’s forthcoming book; “The Lottery” in Stars Hollow and more.
8 Queer High Fantasy Books For Your Epic Sword-Wielding Needs
Like, Guy Gavriel Kay, but queer. Tolkien, but queer. Melanie Rawn, but queer.