National Poetry Month: Lauren Zuniga Will Lull You Awake
“I just started working on a piece that’s a mash up of Neil Degrasse Tyson and Nicki Minaj.”
Things I Read That I Love #121: You Don’t Want To Fall In Love With Your Own Story Of Tragedy.
Topics include underpaid cheerleaders, the “gig economy,” Circle Football, Rebecca Walker, heroin, sex ed, grad school, Upworthy and moar!
Ten Books For Queers And Feminists To Read This Spring
Ten important queer and feminist books coming this spring.
Lez Liberty Lit #43: Basically An Excuse To Talk About Wodehouse
Scrawny female protagonists, experimental fiction, Wodehouse, sentence fragments and more.
Dear Queer Diary: Virginia Woolf Is My Homegirl
No, I do not know Virginia Woolf’s official stance on bras. However, let’s put it this way: she wrote that a woman needed five hundred pounds and a room of her own to write fiction—not five hundred pounds, a room of her own, and an uncomfortable, expensive, and otherwise constraining undergarment. Enough said.
Things I Read That I Love #120: Alfred Kinsey’s Report Makes No Mention Of Games Of Spin-The-Bottle
Topics include the Branch Davidian siege, women writing about sex, autism/disney, traveling while black, Cool Girls, endometriosis and more!
Read A F*cking Book: Sometimes Being Bad Is Good In “Southern Sin”
“Set in the land of deep-fried Christian morality, a natural tension is created in each one of the anthology’s 23 stories, making for a mostly sexy, sometimes terrifying, but always exceptionally-crafted read.”
Things I Read That I Love #119: I Wouldn’t Say It’s Making Me Happy, Per Se
Topics include Mobile Home U, Harriet the Spy, sanitary pads, tigers, Sherlock, fast fashion, Silicon Valley, the guy who made Flappy Bird and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #42: Didactic Dialogue and Book Doctors
Gender and racial diversity in children’s books, talking about talking about race and sexuality in all types of books, why speed reading is stupid and more.
Dear Queer Diary: Commonplace Books Should Be More Common
Craft “a salad of many herbs” for your reading and writing pleasure.
Things I Read That I Love #118: Folks Are Well-Intentioned and Stupid, Well-Intentioned and Broken
Topics include solitary confinement, the Barista class, the burrnesha of Albania, Back to the Future II, Swissair Flight 111, Dazed & Confused and so much more. Srsly this is a good one.
Lez Liberty Lit #41: Not Computer Generated
Computer-generated texts, working on trains, avoiding your book club, how critics fail writers of color and more.
Things I Read That I Love #117: Strangely, Our Outfits Match The Volkswagen.
Topics include Edie Windsor, Party Monster, anxiety, the prison hunger strike, sorority vs. lesbians, growing up in a missionary family, HealthCare.gov and moar!
Five Books That F*cked Up My Brain Cells (In A Good Way)
The best stories fuck us up and force us to put ourselves back together in a new configuration.
Read A F*cking Book: 5 Truths About Sex Work I Learned from “Playing The Whore”
It’s not up to just anyone. It’s up to sex workers to define their own destiny.
Things I Read That I Love #116: We Should Seek Maximum Publicity and Maximum Debunking
Topics include murder, addiction, ghosting for Julian Assange, masking, movie novelizations, Gitmo and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #40: A Page-Turner At Heart
Novels in one sentence, “Hild,” libraries, queer poetry, semi-colons, classic literature reenacted by Lego, schools facing funding cuts for making students read queer literature and more.
Getting Your Lit Nerd on with Reading Apps
“After flying 2,678 miles and over the Pacific Ocean, I realized that I was gonna have to rebuild my collection. But this time, it would be digital (and therefore move-proof).”
Things I Read That I Love #115: I Go From Zero To Bitch In 2.5 Seconds
Topics include Sabrina the Teenage Witch, life after “The Real World,” Abercrombie, madness, 4chan and other things too complicated to describe in this little box!
10 Novels & Memoirs By and About Black Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women
You should celebrate Black History Month by reading all of these books right now.