Read a F*cking Book: 20 Best Young Adult Novels For Queer Girls
NPR’s list of Top 100 Choices For Best Teen Novels lacked proper queeriosity. Thus we present our top 20 picks for Queer Teen Novels For Girls.
Things I Read That I Love #37: Can’t Sleep Write Now
Topics include Nick Drake, the hunt for a missing autistic child, the morning-after pill, nannies, homeless teens in Boystown, teevee preachers, where i write and more!
In Which His Death Helped Me Finally Get To Know Gore Vidal
The literary badass and sexual liberation babe passed away last week at 88, and that was how I discovered him.
Top Five Famous Queer Lady Writers and their Dogs
“Girlfriends will love you and leave you, but your four-legged friend’s desire to wake you each morning with an enthusiastic lick will never waver.”
Things I Read That I Love #36: Merrily We Rollergirl Along
Topics include rhythmic gymnastics, criminal profiling, Canadian tourism in Cuba, racism in casting notices, TomKat, roller derby, Alison Bechdel, sexting and more!
Hey Girl, Feminist Ryan Gosling Is Now A Coffee Table Book
It’s like when the greatest thing in the world gets even better.
I Also Love Vintage Books Your Kid Loves
Riese’s team pick: San Antonio writer Burgin Street is obsessed with vintage childrens books and consequently, I’m obsessed with her blog.
Real Talk From Your Editor Returns with A Vengeance
Rachel’s Team Pick: Editor Real Talk is back, and possibly even better!
Read A F*cking Book: “Stranger On Lesbos” Reminds Us How Far We’ve Come and What Hasn’t Changed
“I am glad to be here with you in 2012. But I am glad someone was there in 1950.”
Things I Read That I Love #35: Proper Nouns
Topics include the Norway shooting, Nadia Comaneci, R.L Stine, Haruki Murakami, Gloria Allred, welfare-to-work programs, death row, eating disorders & Saved By the Bell!
Stories from the Subway: Visit the Underground New York Public Library
If you like books and street photography, UNYPL is going to be your new happy place.
Read a F*cking Book: “No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics”
A definitive collection of queer comics through the past four decades.
Yet Another Top 10 Lesbian Romance Novels
Love stories featuring lesbian Secret Service agents, doctors, super spies, life coaches, personal trainers and women of many other professions.
Things I Read That I Love #34: Frontierland
Topics include medical experiments on prisoners, Nan Goldin, sex in the Olympic Village, war, yoga, ladyblogs, an anti-gay extortion ring, Mormons making money and more!
Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Ann-Marie MacDonald’s “Fall On Your Knees”
What if the nerdy bookstore owner from “Better Than Chocolate” wrote a book of her own? Oh, wait, she DID!
Read A F*cking eBook: Best Lesbian Titles Under $5
You probably want to read some lesbian and queer books this summer. Here are a few that are under $5.
Read A F*cking Book: ‘Something Spectacular’
Greta Gleissner is a former Radio City Rockette whose memoir details her career as a professional dancer while struggling with bulimia and coming to terms with her sexuality.
Read a F*cking Book: “Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity”
On makeup: “this ritualized mask-making / not to hide behind / but to put forth”
Emma and Nicola Wrote A Novel About Britney Spears: The Autostraddle Interview
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries”) re-imagine the story of how Britney Spears ended up under her father’s permanent legal control in their new novel.
Science Confirms Reading Fiction Is Making You A Better Person
A fascinating new “theory of fiction” from Stanford University!