Trans activist and historian Kit Heyam’s new book Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender examines gender nonconformity throughout history.

OutWrite: The Speeches That Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture perfectly exemplifies the reasons why it’s so imperative to look back at history with the willingness to be impacted by whatever we learn.

Behind the scenes with Kristen Arnett, Keah Brown, Rosemary Donahue, Josie Pickens, Vanessa Friedman, Samantha Allen, and Xoai Pham about their contributions to this reimagined cult classic.

I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.

“The thing that gets me about a lot of people’s just criticisms of Fifty Shades of Grey is, as a romance novel, as a ravishment novel, it’s a lot closer to real SM, real sexy pulp, than most.”

Tanaïs’ In Sensorium is an aesthetic, intimate labyrinth of ancestral reckoning and identity.

If you thought 2021 was a banner year for LGBTQ+ books, wait until you see what the first three months of 2022 have in store for queer book lovers.

When we’re young, we relate to older people who are themselves young. We read maturity where it is not deserved.

“The process of writing for me is the great work of life. It is the nexus where everything that matters to me intersects.”

I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.

It sounds like Robin Hood meets Fast and the Furious and very GAY.

Kai Cheng Thom’s new book of essays is coming out in August, the first two books from Roxane Gay’s brand new press are releasing, Elliot Page’s much anticipated memoir is available, Jacqueline Carey is returning to her Kushiel’s universe, and more!

Topics include Child Protective Services, wrongful convictions, abortion, OXO kitchen products, safety town, getitng cancelled in high school, Joel Kim Booster, MTV Books and more!

Every year, more and more brilliant, engaging, inspiring witchy books are published to help both beginner and more advanced practitioners improve their skills with tarot, astrology, tarot, numerology, herbalism, divination, and other sacred practices.

Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.

This is a book to be read and re-read, like all true stories.

I’ve always had a very active daydream life.

A solid half of these are romance, which is entirely unintentional — but you’re welcome if queer celesbian romance is your jam.

After another banger week for books coverage on Autostraddle, catch up on all the latest happenings in the queer lit world.

A beautiful commitment to and demonstration of Black femme poetics, The Color Pynk offers a radical alternative to the genre of the academic book, one that celebrates Black queer language as its own tactic of freedom-dreaming.