Things I Read That I Love #138: I Am Perfectly Normal And Fine, I Told Myself
Topics include the new face of hunger, The Olive Garden, CeCe McDonald, college rankings, sitcom cities, Amway, PTSD, “hiking while black” and moar!
40 LGBTQ-Friendly Picture Books for Ages 0-5
Spread the gay agenda with these colourful, easy-to-read books teaching love, acceptance, and science.
Things I Read That I Love #137: We Don’t Do Dumb Things Like That To Start The Day
Topics include the case for reparations as explained by Ta-Nehisi Coates, AM Homes, a Vine romance gone wrong, how to be a writer, turning 30 and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #51: Reading While Travelling
Reading online, typewriters, trans literature, romance fiction as feminist fiction and more.
“We Are The Youth” Captures Young Queers Across America
This extraordinary photojournalism project highlights young queer lives and stories.
Things I Read That I Love #136: I Fell So Hard for Tomato Juice One Summer
Topics include class rage, the crash of EgyptAir 990, the cruise ship industry, elephant abuse at the circus, Justin Bieber, falling in love with everything and more!
10 Hilarious And Historical Sex Scenes From Lesbian Pulp Fiction
“Wildly, the girls locked to each other. Their bodies were gleaming now with sweat. Lip to lip, breast to breast, thigh to slippery thigh, they heaved and gyrated, ecstasy rising like a lava wave.”
Read A F*cking Book: ‘G.R.I.T.S.’ Is So Much More Than Food
This shiny new collection of queer Southern poetry and stories is guaranteed to stick to your ribs.
Things I Read That I Love #135: Too South To Be North and Too North To Be South
Topics include sex work in Rio, a polyamory conference, a men’s rights conference, Adam Levine, the two Baltimores, student debt and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #50: Summer Reading Lists
The Miseducation of Cameron Post’s removal from a summer reading list, literary books coming out this fall, trigger warnings, marginalizing women’s writing and more.
Dear Queer Diary: Summer Re-Reading
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
Things I Read That I Love #134: The Anti-Coloring Book
Topics include John Green, being bipolar, large-scale organic farming, letters from arsonist, joint custody, Sandy Hook, Koh Phangan, Michael Jackson and MOAR!
Things I Read That I Love #133: I Cannot Confirm or Deny That I May Have Kissed Two or Three or Maybe Even Five of Them
Topics include Vintage Black Glamour, Dov Charney & Terry Richardson & Vice, hospice care, The Mighty Ducks trilogy, summer matinees and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #49: Spend More Than 19 Minutes Reading
Why queer characters and themes in YA hasn’t translated to mainstream fiction, literature as propaganda, the Beyoncé of poetry, a discussion of systems of oppression and more.
Rebel Girls: The Writing That Made A Movement (Or A Bunch of Feminism’s Primary Sources)
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
Things I Read That I Love #132: I’d Actually Love It If People Started Not Being The Worst Every Day
Topics include alcoholic women writers, class, adjunct professors, the racism beat, Forest Haven Asylum, kids who plotted to kill, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #48: It’s Totally Okay To Read YA Novels, You Guys
A new comic from Alison Bechdel, gendered pronouns, volatile organic compounds, arguments about YA fiction, fairy tales and more.
Things I Read That I Love #131: Here We Go, A Nightmare of Mud and Madness
Topics include segregation in public schools, dairy farming, antibiotics, the Kentucky Derby, Britney Spears, laundry apps and moar!
Things I Read That I Love #130: Let Jolene Live Fierce and Free and Pure Fantasy
Topics include being “that woman,” a botched death row case, fradulent food, dead poet’s society, the Scopes Monkey trial, murder, more on the 9/11 museum and more!
2014 Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced, Include Alison Bechdel, Imogen Binnie And More
This year’s Lambda Award winners were announced yesterday evening and now it’s time to read ALL OF THEM.