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a sunlit photo portrait of Minnie Bruce Pratt and Leslie Feinberg looking at the camera, juxtaposed with the cover of Minnie Bruce Pratt's book MAGNIFIED

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Labors of Love and Loss: An Interview with Minnie Bruce Pratt on the Occasion of “Magnified,” Her Latest Poetry Collection

In Magnified, Minnie Bruce Pratt meditates on “the eternal time of death, the short intense time of work, and the focused, magnified time of the intimacy” shared with her beloved,…

Sarah Heying —

Mar 15, 2021

lez liberty lit

link roundup

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Lez Liberty Lit Follows Mix Tape Rules

Toni Morrison as an editor; queer sex, food, and obsession; reimagining sex and survival; and more.

Ryan Yates —

Mar 11, 2021

Three repeating images of the cover of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, with white text printed on a pink&black scribbled background

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For Us and for You: We Want It All Is an Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics and Archive of Trans Literary Movements

In We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel aim to amplify a politics of trans people against capitalism and empire.

Jai Dulani —

Mar 10, 2021

sci-fi/fantasy

Book cover art for "A Desolation Called Peace". Illustration of a figure looking out of a large geometrically paneled window, where a large saturn-like object floats in a dazzling burst of light and red smoke. Text reads "A Desolation Called Peace — Arkady Martine" "A mesmerizing debut... it left me utterly dazzled." — The New York Times Book Review on A Memory Called Empire. The second slide is a selfie of the author, Arkady Martine, blue eyes staring directly at camera, red hair in soft waves around her face.

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EXCLUSIVE: A+ Members, Read a Generous Excerpt of Arkady Martine’s “A Desolation Called Peace” Here!

We’re delighted to be able to share an exclusive EXTENDED excerpt of A Desolation Called Peace in honor of its launch.

Rachel —

Mar 3, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Loiter

It’s ok not to remember everything that you read, a new fund for Black creatives, and what is it like to explore childhood horror through the lens of queer adulthood?

Ryan Yates —

Feb 25, 2021

AIDS

HIV/AIDS

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Surprise Porn and Hospital Parties: The Queer and Trans Pleasure in Marty Fink’s “Forget Burial”

Marty Fink shows how caregiving is activism, disability is sexy and dusty archives are tantalizing in Forget Burial, an essential, highly pleasurable, read.

Anna Lee-Popham —

Feb 24, 2021

longform journalism

Things I Read That I Love

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Things I Read That I Love #316: Beach-Ball Buttocks Mimicking The Most Famous Bottom In The World

Topics include a Hollywood con artist, lip-reading, the benefit of nervous breakdowns, ultra-fast fashion, Mrs. Meyer’s soap, writing lesbian sex, Gamestop, Mormon Mommie Bloggers, butt lifts and more!

Riese —

Feb 19, 2021

Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian

queer families

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8 Books Featuring Big Queer Families, Found and Otherwise

“Stories about huge families full of love, whether nuclear or chosen or just-for-school, were the comfort food of my childhood, and I’m trying to find something similar for my queer…

Casey —

Feb 16, 2021

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