Things I Read That I Love #45: To The Skin And Bone And Ragshow Of The Heart
Topics include Star Trek TNG, Strong Female Action Heroes, crime reporting, poverty in rural America, being trans and homeless and SO MUCH MORE!
20 Things You Can Take Away from “The S and M Feminist” Whether You’re Into S and M or Not
“Sex education should tell people how to explore what they want, not just that they should explore.”
Autostraddle Book Club #6: We’re Reading “The Miseducation of Cameron Post”
“Girls kissing girls in barns, in twisty slides on playgrounds, in abandoned hospitals. Miles City, Montana. The 1990s. Swimming. Summer. Cowgirls. Dinosaur discovering. Ferris Wheels. Conversion therapy. Taco Johns.”
Things I Read That I Love #44: Screaming Sounds
Topics include Harriet the Spy, bipolar disorder, Jerry Sandusky, promiscuous reading, rock criticism, right-wing podcasts and online dating!
Lez Liberty Lit #4: I Kept Always Two Books In My Pocket
This week in lit: banned books, Vagina, and lots of lesbian storylines.
Read Banned Books, Be The Revolution
Banned Books Week is like Christmas for me: it allows me to queer my reading like I queer my gender. Party hard with some inappropriate reading!
Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Alex Leslie’s “People Who Disappear”
Leslie’s stories speak to my top interests in life: gay women, the environment, and Canada.
Things I Read That I Love #43: High Times
Topics include hipster-bashing, Anna Nicole Smith, stolen bikes, writing non-fiction, teaching kids to write, the Gloucester pregnancy “pact” and so much more!
Plentitude Magazine’s Inaugural Issue: The Autostraddle Review
Maybe we all share the same eyes or the same hearts. Maybe we just share the same vocabulary.
14 Girls We Wanted To Be Back Then: Kickass Heroines From YA & Children’s Books Of Yesteryear
We spent the 80’s and early 90’s with our noses in books, dreaming of being Scout or Molly or Fern or Heidi or Ramona or Harriet or so many more! What are your favorites?
Things I Read That I Love #42: Your Strange Fate
Topics include Kim’s Video, shopping malls, cheating in school, taxes, Burning Man, Bruce Springsteen and, obviously, a horrifying tragedy!
Lez Liberty Lit #3: It Is So Quite New A Thing
This week in lesbian lit: Project Unicorn, science, keeping a notebook, weekend book festivals, and a new excerpt from Eileen Myles.
California: Selected Poems of a Dream
In case you’re just dreaming.
Listling: Reasons You Should Read Santa Olivia Immediately
There are lots of reasons to read Santa Olivia. Even if you weren’t peer pressured into doing it for A Camp.
Read a F*cking eBook: Best Feminist Titles Under $5
From fiction to history to theory, we’ve got your end-of-summer feminist reading needs covered.
Malinda Lo and Behold: The Autostraddle Interview
Malinda Lo spoke with Autostraddle about her new book Adaptation, diversity in YA, gay girls making out, and how much she loves us (spoiler alert: a lot).
Things I Read That I Love #41: In Claudia’s Handwriting
Topics include surfing, Kraft Dinner, the inherent danger of existing while female, The Babysitters Club, the flood in Pratsville, hardcore and so much more!
Excerpt From Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin Explores Queer Themes, Is Amazing
Gabrielle’s Team Pick: “The second you see each other, you start to fight. Would you call that love or vengeance?”
And Yet Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels
The Law and Order Edition.
Gay YA Novels Reflecting Reality for LGBT Teens, Including Homelessness
“I want there to be more books like The Education of Queenie McBride, and I want there to be more teens able to access them.”