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An image repeated three times of the cover of Torrey Peters' Detransition, Baby

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“Detransition, Baby” Is a Book For Trans Women — The Rest of You Are Lucky to Read It

“The truth is I don’t know how to review Detransition, Baby. Torrey was too successful in what she set out to accomplish. If trans women have been and remain her…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jan 8, 2021

interview

nonfiction

A photo collage of the cover of Marlee Grace's Getting to Center, which features pastel abstract shapes, and a photo of Grace, a blond woman in a white turtleneck in front of a backdrop with pastel shapes on it.

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Getting to an Imperfect, Queer Center: Interview with Marlee Grace

“The goal, especially in 2020, has not been to feel better or feel my best, but it’s to feel less shitty than I did five minutes ago.” Marlee Grace’s Getting…

Sarah Yanni —

Jan 4, 2021

lez liberty lit

link roundup

a person with long hair reading in a window

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Lez Liberty Lit: Drown Me In Best-of Lists

One last wave of all the “Best of 2020” lists you can handle! Plus, Roxane Gay is starting a book club, Carmen Maria Machado’s cheese ball recipe, how to be…

Ryan Yates —

Dec 31, 2020

Lists/Top 10s

most anticipated queer books

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69 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Winter 2020 and 2021

I believe we are in living in a truly incredible time for queer and feminist books. For proof, I offer you this majestic — if I do say so myself…

Casey —

Dec 30, 2020

Angela Davis

radical feminism

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Reading List for the Revolution: Angela Davis & Radical Inspiration for 2021

What if we all committed to a radical reading list for 2021? What would we learn? And with this, what could we do? This collection of books will set you…

Sarah Yanni —

Dec 29, 2020

audre lorde

queer theory

book features

Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: December’s Prologue

Like so many others, I’ve been chirping about the end of 2020, as if the transition from one year to the next will somehow magically suture our open wounds.

Jehan —

Dec 28, 2020

"personality cult"

13 Days of A+

the cover of Kamala's novel, Zigzags. the cover is a graphic that features two queer women lounging beside Lake Michigan as the sun sets into the purple water. in the right upper corner is the A+ symbol with a 7 highlighted for the 13 days of A+

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A Scene & Notes From Kamala’s Novel Zigzags

I’m sharing part of a scene from the book that captures the essence of why I love to write fiction: so I can write the fantasy dates with girls I…

Kamala Puligandla —

Dec 19, 2020

lez liberty lit

link roundup

a Black person with long hair reading in bed

literature

Lez Liberty Lit: High Femme Camp Antics

It’s best books season, the addiction-memoir genre has been dominated by men, somehow it will be March again in just three months, and yes — that piece about High Femme…

Ryan Yates —

Dec 17, 2020

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