Things I Read That I Love #146: The Fumes Of A Magic Marker
Topics include a lot of stuff about race and also rock star’s wives, making things, Star Trek, this app called Slack, the impact of the California drought and more!
The Speakeasy Book Club Is Reading “Sister Outsider” And You Should Too!
The Speakeasy is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.
Things I Read That I Love #145: It’s Gradual and Sad, or Wild and Thrashing
Topics include love, full-figured fashion, depression & sobriety, rape of men in the military, debtor’s prison and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #55: Reading Slowly, Reading Well
Sexy poetry, slow reading, an independent bookstore road trip, new old classic YA and more.
Things I Read That I Love #144: We Say No Because We Are Grumpy and Have Not Slept Properly
Topics include horror in New Orleans, late ’70s gay life in Kansas, family farming, turning 14 in Cincinnati, Teach for America and more!
Dear Queer Diary: We Are What We Read
Are the pages of your journals festooned with book titles? Mine are.
Things I Read That I Love #143: What You Fight For, You Love.
Topics include the writing business, clothes & class, memes & misogynoir, Mary Beard, earthquakes, finding a place to be gay and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit #54: Libraries, Libraries Everywhere
A library in a taxi, imaginary meals, must-read books by trans women and by or about queer Canadians, surpassing diversity checkboxes and more.
Roxane Gay’s “Bad Feminist” Reminds Us We’re All Human
This is bad feminism. And we are better for it.
Things I Read That I Love #142: Like A Freaky Connie Francis With A Death Wish
Topics include the last true hermit, therapy, Cheryl Strayed, “the future of college,” the death penalty, summer jams and more!
Things I Read That I Love #141: Just Give Me Room To Exist Both In The Shit And Stars
Topics include Hook, The Ivy League, Rachel Kaadzi Ghanash, sex work, crossword puzzles, Gurl.com and moar!
Top 17 Books Autostraddlers Bought This Year
Boy do y’all love to read about rope bondage!
Lez Liberty Lit #53: A To-Read Pile To The Moon
Highbrow and lowbrow literature, visualizing characters, an excerpt from “bad Feminist” and more!
Things I Read That I Love #140: A Girl In Black Eyeliner and High-Top Sneakers
Topics include women in country music, pedophilia, the Estonia ferry sinking, Magnolia, retail scheduling, confessional writing, Ferguson and more.
National Poetry Slam 2014 Queerer Than All The Other Slams Forever
“This not just your average poetry reading with people standing stoically reading prose or page poetry. This is a rock show of poetry. This is aggression, fierceness, tenderness, passion, tears and jubilance.”
50 Shades of Non-Consent: Editing BDSM Erotica as a Queer Top
“The path of least resistance is to write off 50 Shades of Grey as harmless fluff, but frankly, after editing over one hundred novels full of distortions and abuse, I don’t think I could respect myself if I did so.”
Things I Read That I Loved #139: We Lean Into Love, Even In The Most Hideous Circumstances
Topics include Mary Karr, YouTube rooms, the ferry Sewol sinking, murder, child abuse, Kara Swisher, Ed Albee and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #52: Lazy Reading Days
Zadie Smith, superlatives, reader’s block, Samantha Irby, public domain reviews, queer book fairs and more.
If They Build A New Queer Bookstore, Will You Come
Listen up all queermos within striking distance of Philly! There’s a new bookstore coming your way — a very very queer bookstore with a café and art and all sorts of amazing things. And it’s being built from the ground up by community members Makella Craelius and Puppett.
Read a F*cking Book: Late Summer Reading For Queers and Feminists
With new books by Roxane Gay, Hannah Hart, Sarah Waters, Radclyffe and more, there are lots of things to read and talk about.