Literature

sex work

literature

Like a Stiletto to the Heart: Sex Worker Stories You Should Know and Love

A resource guide to some of the crucial narratives and literary works around sex workers’ experiences in publication, from one of the editors of new anthology of sex workers’ writing…

Natalie West —

Feb 15, 2021

lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: I Love A Semicolon

Semicolons are the best; so is having a nemesis; remembering gay bars; “the continual project of reckoning with ourselves”; and more.

Ryan Yates —

Feb 11, 2021

interview

literary fiction

literature

What If “When Harry Met Sally” Was a Feminist Lesbian Love Story? Emily Hashimoto Has the Answer with “A World Between”

“The trajectory with their partner or ex-partner and or friend or whoever is not linear; it’s, for some women, this big zig zagging: friends for five years, then date for…

Julie R Enszer —

Feb 4, 2021

essay collection

nonfiction

book features

The Drop: Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew’s “Black Futures” Is a Triumphant Celebration of Black Voices and Black Innovation

Black people are the future, creating some of the most beautiful and challenging art we have seen, forging a way out of the past while being entirely cognizant of it.…

danijanae —

Jan 31, 2021

lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Inefficient Writing

Trans writing for trans people, “Everybody Else (Is) Perfect” is perfect, your dream job is dead and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jan 28, 2021

gabrielle korn

memoir

literature

“Everybody (Else) Is Perfect,” Gabrielle Korn’s Debut Essay Collection, Examines the Media World She Helped Create

“Everybody (Else) Is Perfect” is a bold and complicated meditation on media, feminism, and the internet, written from the perspective of a thoughtful and deeply honest insider. It is also…

Vanessa —

Jan 26, 2021

longform

Things I Read That I Love

literature

Things I Read That I Love #315: The Cult Thing Was Real, But In a Positive Way

Topics include your Grandma’s couch, credit card points, SoulCycle, Yoga With Adriene, Fran Lebowitz, the year in self-improvement, filicide, how unhoused teens are coping in locked-down New York and so…

Riese —

Jan 15, 2021

lez liberty lit

link roundup

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: Stop Reading Garbage Online

Stop reading garbage online and start reading all the great books that are coming out in 2021 instead.

Ryan Yates —

Jan 14, 2021