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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

Two brightly colored figures, one brown with brown hair and one white with red hair, clutch each other and kiss as they seem to be pulled in opposite directions by an imposing crowd of riot police drawn in grays and browns

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In “SFSX,” Tina Horn Builds a Purity-Obsessed Sci-Fi Vision of our Dystopian Present

Autostraddle recently spoke with Tina Horn via video call to chat about the first volume of SFSX, her myriad influences, building community around art, the sex worker rights’ movement, and…

James Factora

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Sep 11, 2020

two women reading from the same book, with a cat

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Lez Liberty Lit: Library Sex

The people who fantasize about library sex, excerpts and fall reading lists galore, Black-owned bookstores and radical bookstores, pandemic creativity and more.

Ryan Yates

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Sep 10, 2020

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Return of the Space Lesbians: Tamsyn Muir’s “Harrow the Ninth” Is a Maze of Grief, Gore, and Possibly Global Warming

Sometimes, what you really need is a story that understands how grief can ricochet through the entire universe.

Lindsay Lee Wallace

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Sep 10, 2020

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How Writing “The Ship We Built,” a Children’s Novel, Helped Me Come Out

The first draft of The Ship We Built was intended as a valentine for one person. Six and a half years later, The Ship We Built has been released as…

Alexandria Bean

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Sep 3, 2020

A photo of a light skinned person taking a library book off the shelf.

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As School Season Begins, Fight for Trans Representation in Public Libraries

The public library is in the unique position to pick up where public education leaves off—to succeed where public education fails. It’s time we start rethinking what a library can…

Ada Wofford

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Aug 27, 2020

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65 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Fall 2020

I can confirm that no matter what you’re looking for — YA, non-fiction, memoir, romance, literary fiction, comics, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, poetry — there are queer and…

Casey

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Aug 27, 2020

A collage of Audre Lorde looking directly into the camera with Jehan, the author, looking directly over her shoulder also at the camera. The color palette of the collage is warm like the sun, with yellows and oranges.

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Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: August’s New Spelling of My Name

In my own myth, New York has been the cornerstone of what shaped me, finally allowing myself to be in my queerness. While the New York I inhabited and the…

Jehan

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Aug 27, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Boredom Banana Bread

The relationships between boredom, work, art, pandemic, and banana bread; the bourgeois romance of pandemic isolation; read books about “disreputable women” by women writers and more.

Ryan Yates

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Aug 27, 2020