Read A F*cking Book: Rhiannon Argo’s “Girls I’ve Run Away With”
Lo is that girl you had a secret crush on in high school, the one who could skate and wore baggy shorts. And with everything she goes through, you genuinely care about her.
Let’s Make “Beyond” The Greatest Queer Sci Fi/Fantasy Comics Anthology Of All Time!
Two queer comic professionals are starting a brand-spanking new anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy comics featuring queer characters and stories. And the best part is, they’re looking for contributions from people like you!
Things I Read That I Love #95: Oh, She’s Instafamous
Topics include dead malls, Mary Gaitskill, fear of clowns, Space Jam, teenage girls on social media, dead malls, ‘Real Life’ and so much more!
Lez Liberty Lit #30: We Love Categorizing and Naming Things
This week in lit: reading apps, Beowulf, diversity, that guy who doesn’t teach books by women or queer people and the end of the world.
Read A F*cking Book: Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf
Basically, this book is one big giant sex-ed zine, but it’s a book.
Things I Read That I Love #94: The Stakes Are High, Why Else Would We Write?
Topics include a face transplant, Janelle Monae, business school, Jodie Foster, mattresses, the men who brought 9/11 home, letters to the editor, last meals, writing advice from Rick Bass and moar!
Things I Read That I Love #93: It Makes No Sense And It Makes Perfect Sense
Topics include SF’s highest-paid call girl, Brownsville, selfies, Aaron Carter, Leif Garrett’s online fandom, love, gentrification, HIV and male power, bartending and moar!
Lez Liberty Lit #29: Against Stupidity, Apathy, And Zombification
This week in queer lit: women winning prizes, discussions about diversity, library-related crises, an excerpt from Sarah Schulman’s “After Dolores” and more.
Things I Read That I Love #92: More Like Staying Drunk
Topics include Detroit, leaving New York, the illegal online network for discarding unwanted adopted children, toxic hair straightening, bikini waxing, airport security, The O.C., racism, hockey journalism, The History Channel and moar!
Read A F*cking Book: Laurie Penny’s “Cybersexism”
Two years after writing that “a woman’s opinion is the miniskirt of the internet,” Laurie Penny is in no shortage of them in her latest mini-book.
Things I Read That I Love #91: A Maniacal Power Fantasy That Panders To Female Anger and Fear
Topics include Claire Danes, missionary/colonialist collectors, the death of Kendrick Johnson in Georgia, the Lusty Lady, Gone Girl, Thomas Pynchon, growing up Chinese in America and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #28: Reviewing Reviews of Reviews
Vintage comics, the Scholastic Reading Club, forgotten words, international bookstore porn, intersectionality and more.
Read A F*cking Book: Canary
Canary, a debut collection of queerish short stories from Nancy Jo Cullen, is all about the everyday. And the weird.
Top 10 Bestest Favoritest Greatest Of All Time Magazines From My Childhood
You know, like Disney Adventures and Dolly Magazine and Stone Soup and all those other radical rags! Circa 1988-1992!
Things I Read That I Love #90: The Narcissistic Stars Of Our Own Lives
Topics include hate crimes, Christian Rock, Marissa Mayer, the evolution of delusions, disability, the Voting Rights Act, Media Takeout, learning how to live and MOAR!
Idol Worship: Ten(ish) Questions About Dogs and Books with Ali Liebgott
This edition is FULL OF TREASURES. Ali and I read two books and asked ten(ish) questions to poet, writer, and die-hard dyke Ali Liebegott for you. Also, many dog photos!
Things I Read That I Love #89: But It Was A Myth I Believed In
Topics include assisted living facilities, the militarization of the police, work, bike shops, Intervention, grief, TV ratings, cotton farmer suicides, Woody Allen’s New York and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #27: Hamlet Dies
This week in lit: bookshelfies, queer superhero power couples, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, a pop-culture feminist syllabus and more.
Read All Of The Books: The Fall 2013 Queer Books Preview
The 50 most essential queer books coming this fall.
Things I Read That I Love #88: Whatever Was Shattered That Day
Topics include Kiese Laymon, black dolls, police stealing your shit, health care, strong female characters, asset forfeiture, the poorest rich kids in the world and death.