Literature

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Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for October 2025

It’s October, and you know what that means! Lots of new queer and trans horror heading your way! And plenty…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Oct 7, 2025

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Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point…

Riese

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Mar 15, 2024

Solidarity by Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor

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New Book “Solidarity” Is Necessary Read, Even if It’s Difficult To Apply to All Liberation Movements

As with most nonfiction books about political topics, I finished Solidarity with more questions than answers about how to integrate its concepts into my day-to-day life.

Abbie Jones

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Mar 12, 2024

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In “City of Laughter,” a Story Doesn’t Have To Be Complete To Be Meaningful

Temim Fruchter’s debut novel is fueled by queer desire and queer investigation.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Mar 12, 2024

Four different book covers, all with their color desaturated to look like blue tones, overlapping over a blue background that says 15 (for Autostraddle's 15th Birthday)

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Top 15 Books That Gave Me Weird Ideas About Sex and Pregnancy

2. It would be some years before I got to a place where I truly believed that accidental formaldehyde poisoning was not a main concern when making my foray into…

Nico

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Mar 10, 2024

1. The Default World by Naomi Kanakia. 2. Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg. 3. Cecilia by K-Ming Chang. 4. Sluts: Anthology edited by Michelle Tea. 5. Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. 6. Thunder Song by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe. 7. I Want You More by Swan Huntley. 8Bad Seed by Gabriel Carle. 9. Perfume & Pain by Anna Dorn. 10. Like Love by Maggie Nelson. 11. Memory Piece by Lisa Ko. 12. Thirst by Marina Yuszczuk

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69 Most Anticipated Queer Books for Spring 2024

What’s on the horizon for queer books in March, April, and May? New work from Judith Butler, K-Ming Chang, Emma Copley Eisenberg, and so much more.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese

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Mar 4, 2024

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This New Queer YA Book Is for the Sports Gays AND the Newspaper Nerds

If you’re looking for a fun frenemies-to-lovers story, this is it.

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Feb 28, 2024

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Sapphic Basketball Romance “How You Get the Girl” Is a Slam Dunk

Imagine you are coaching a girl’s basketball team and the retired WNBA player you used to crush on shows up as the foster parent of one of your team members…

Sa'iyda Shabazz

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Feb 15, 2024

The 'Godzilla Valentine's Day Special' #1 cover art, by Dani Pendergast and M. Smith, is in shades of black, blue, and blush pink. In one cover a sapphic couple make heart eyes with each other while Godzilla is in the background. In the second cover a brunette femme has heart shaped sunglasses and we can see Godzilla in the reflection.

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The Godzilla Valentine’s Day Comic Book Special Is a Sweet Sapphic Story of Love and Compromise

Written by trans lesbian comic book writer Zoe Tunnell, the Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special tells the story of Piper, a queer woman who decides to become a kaiju researcher after…

Latonya Pennington

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Feb 14, 2024