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.
Read a F*cking eBook: Lesbian Romance Under $5
There is a time and a place for great literature. This isn’t it.
Soap Opera + Clue + Lesbians = Mariel Cove Season 2, Your New Beach Read
Ali’s Team Pick: The content is very much Clue + Soap Opera, but the style recalls lesbian pulp + the final season of the L Word. I’m only on the first episode, but I’m already wondering who killed Jenny (so to speak).
Team Pick: Vaginal Fantasy Discusses “Tipping The Velvet” With Hannah Hart
Felicia Day, Hannah Hart, and your other favorite geek girls are talking about Tipping the Velvet!
Things I Read That I Love #87: The Cranky, Smart Soulmate Every Aspiring Artist Pines For
Topics include Creedmor Psychiatric Center, San Francisco, Jeanette Walls, LSD, Eddie Ellis, The O.C., housesitting, selfies, rape in a Mennonite community, Texas, the lottery and more!
Lez Liberty Lit #26: Summertime, and The Reading is Easy
The books of Orange is the New Black, diversity in kids’ books, heroic librarians, subtle ways of convincing those around you to read your favorite childhood novels and more.
Jeanne Córdova’s “When We Were Outlaws”: Who Says the Second Wave’s Not Sexy?
“Being an activist leader brought dozens of women to my bed,” Córdova recalls. “Power seemed to attract people, and my political life put me at the center of the action.”
Three Reasons This Intersex Lesbian Loved Abigail Tarttelin’s “Golden Boy”
Some have criticized Tarttelin’s protagonist as being unbelievably undisturbed and mainstream, but as someone who actually is intersex, I found his character so believable that I thought for a minute she might have modeled him after me!
Things I Read That I Love #86: An Outsider Is Likely To See Things That Insiders Will Not See
Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and more!
Things I Read That I Love #85: Cut-Out Dolls For Grown-Up Girls
Topics include Shirley Jackson, paper dolls, disaster reporting in Haiti, HIV/AIDS, the Worst of White Folks, Rick James, exes on social media, working at a men’s magazine and more!