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Things I Read That I Love #336: The Brat Pack, Buying Sperm, Conversational AI and Streaming Wars

Annie Hamilton befriends Tavi Gevinson and gets unhinged about it, the future of streaming, literary it-girls, MTV’s “The Real World,”…

Riese

Jun 28, 2024

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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…

Riese

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Mar 15, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going…

Riese

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Feb 9, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

Topics include romance scammers, Keke Palmer, the migrant ship, Lorrie Moore, affirmative action, the streaming…

Riese

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Jul 14, 2023

Two girlfriends hanging out in urban apartment

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Things I Read That I Love #330: Titanic, Top Chef, Jeopardy, Libraries, Marvel, BookTok and the Fake Sherlock

Topics include a Top Chef oral history, the fake Sherlock, lost Jeopardy tapes, the Costa…

Riese

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Jun 23, 2023

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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 —

Mar 15, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

Patricia Lockwood meets the pope, Leslie Jamison has a baby and gets divorced. Also: going to Disneyworld but not giving up your data, the reborn doll community, the Iron Claw,…

Riese —

Feb 9, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

Topics include romance scammers, Keke Palmer, the migrant ship, Lorrie Moore, affirmative action, the streaming problem, Lorrie Moore, the Barbie IP and more!

Riese —

Jul 14, 2023

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Lez Liberty Lit: Ground Yourself

Creating work while living with chronic pain, a brief grounding exercise, the state of ambiguous loss and more.

Ryan Yates —

Sep 9, 2021

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Eight Books Featuring Women Dealing with Professional Jealousy

“I’m experiencing a debilitating bout of professional jealousy for another (deserving) woman, and I’m having a hard time with it. I wonder if there are any books that focus on…

Casey —

Aug 30, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: A Gaping MAW

A great new horror comic, what to do when things feel scattered, a new Octavia Butler biography, the possibility of wandering in the digital age and more.

Ryan Yates —

Aug 26, 2021

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Arisa White’s “Who’s Your Daddy” Explores the Quest for Family and Healing in a Queer, African-Diasporic Context

Who’s Your Daddy travels from the United States to Guyana to explore fatherhood and the role of masculinity, care, and caregiving in our lives. While the search for and eventual…

Julie R Enszer —

Aug 17, 2021

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link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Time, Faith, Momentum

Phones belong in museums, the magic ingredients for creativity, why work is not the same as identity and more.

Ryan Yates —

Aug 12, 2021

book lists

10 Books To Obsess Over This August

August is a steamy time of year thanks to the combined powers of Leo season and the final weeks of hot girl summer. It’s a good time to obsess. It’s…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Aug 4, 2021

lez liberty lit

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Lez Liberty Lit Has Simply Had Enough of Drowning

How to live in a burning world without losing your mind, read these books in the second half of 2021, why to reconsider air conditioning, uncategorized creative work, a love…

Ryan Yates —

Jul 29, 2021

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Three repeating images of the cover of Mariame Kaba's We Do This Til We Free Us

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“We Do This ‘Til We Free Us” Makes Abolition Accessible Without Claiming It’s Easy

Imagining what true justice would look like is difficult and strange and convoluted and there aren’t easy answers. Kaba, along with countless other writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries, has spent decades…

Abbie Jones —

Jul 16, 2021

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Maybe Gabrielle Korn Set Her Queer Dystopian Climate Novel ‘The Shutouts’ Too Far in the Future

"I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda. I would do anything to not be annoying."

Riese

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72 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out Fall 2024

Tis the season for queer horror, but fans of sapphic books with magic have a lot to look forward to, too!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Sep 3, 2024

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Anarchist Author Margaret Killjoy Crafts Trans Worlds in the Woods

Margaret Killjoy is a master world-builder. Her first young adult book, The Sapling Cage, comes out next month.

Nico —

Aug 29, 2024

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Which of These Books Are Better Than the Lesbian Movies Based on Them?

I think we can all agree there should be MORE queer film adaptations of queer (or queer-coded) books! Here are 32 from 1940 to now.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jul 24, 2024

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46 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out This July and August

As usual, all genres are represented, but there’s a surprising amount of creepy reads in the thriller/horror realm coming out the rest of summer.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Jul 2, 2024

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Things I Read That I Love #336: The Brat Pack, Buying Sperm, Conversational AI and Streaming Wars

LITERATURE

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

LITERATURE

Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

LITERATURE

Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

LITERATURE

Things I Read That I Love #330: Titanic, Top Chef, Jeopardy, Libraries, Marvel, BookTok and the Fake Sherlock

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

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Things I Read That I Love #334: Group Chats, Polycules, Data Free Disney, Iron Claws and Pretty Faces

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Things I Read That I Love #331: To Live In a Theme Park Without Even Realizing It

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