Results for: read a f*cking book
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Read a F*cking Book: “Out of Orange” is the Real Life Alex Vause’s True Story
You know about Alex Vause, but you may not know much about Catherine Cleary Wolters, the drug-smuggling lesbian in thick-rimmed glasses who inspired her character. That’s where Out of Orange comes in.
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8 Middle Grade Books with LGBTQ Characters
“I have a very precocious eight year old daughter who began speaking at nine months and decided that she would marry a woman before she turned two. She learned the term lesbian from the show Supergirl, and now matter of factly proclaims herself a lesbian to anyone.”
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Read a F*cking Book: Amber Dawn’s “Where The Words End And My Body Begins”
Although it is an individual’s work, it feels collective and empowering to see so many voices and ideas represented in this set of glosa poems.
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Mara Wilson Knows Your First Crush Was Miss Honey: The Autostraddle Interview
“Being Queer is not about who you’re with, it’s about who you are.”
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Normal Blood Feelings: 5 Dark (and Sometimes Sexy) Queer Vampire Stories
If witches are a way to tell stories about women and power, vampires are a way to tell stories about women and sex.
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6 Awesome Books About Women Kicking Ass In STEM
Finish out your summer with some queer engineer approved picks.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD & ROUNDTABLE: It’s Gonna Be A Happy New Year!
We’re over New Year’s resolutions – here’s what we’re looking forward to in 2018. What about you?
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Read a F*cking Book Review: “She Speaks Poetry” Is a Book for the Revolution
“These poems are middle fingers to the law, to the man, to history, to the future, to the people who continue to fight us for our lives.”
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Fall 2016 Book Preview: 48 Queer and Feminist Books To Add To Your Reading List
Welcome to your list of queer and/or feminist books coming out in fall 2016. New Zadie Smith, Ivan Coyote, Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood, Bae Suah and more.
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Read A F*cking Book Review: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is Living Her Truths in “Bodymap”
I told myself 2015 was the year of living my truths. I’m excited to have a guide in this book, and in Leah’s soulful mission to love and be loved — the rest of it be damned.
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“Small Beauty” is a Big Deal for Queer Lit and Trans Girls: An Interview With Author Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
Wilson-Yang deftly weaves and unweaves the threads of narrative tropes that have come to dominate the telling of the stories of trans women, lesbians, migrants, and Chinese North Americans.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 40, October 2017
You’re really gonna wanna see this video Heather made us while on painkillers after taking apart her Roomba to see if she could put her Roomba back together.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 41, November/December 2017
” is “Let’s Make Cheese Boards and Never Leave the House Again” a title
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8 Books Featuring Lesbian May/December Romance To Curl Up With Tonight
Did you love Susan Choi’s My Education, about a sexy student/professor love affair? Here are eight more books you won’t want to miss.
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Crip Lit: Toward An Intersectional Crip Syllabus
Imagine queercrip figures that resist limited notions of embodiment and medical pathology, and demand more expansive understandings of disability, gender and sexuality.
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Read a F*cking Book: Liz Prince’s “Tomboy”
Liz Prince’s new graphic memoir Tomboy is a smart and outright cute exploration of girlhood by a girl who didn’t ‘fit’ but survived to tell the tale.
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Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years, Jahren has earned accolades for her work. Here, she shares her passion.
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Attempting to Contain Everything: Dodie Bellamy’s “When the Sick Rule the World”
“I finally felt that I was being led by someone as deliciously ill-equipped at being in this world as I am. And by the time it was over I thought the book was masterfully human, cerebral but self-aware, wistful, curious, judgmental, forgiving, repentant and broken.”
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Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books of 2015
Read these f*cking books.
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Summer 2017 Gay TV Preview: Some Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Characters For Ya
We’ve got around 30 lesbian, bisexual and queer female characters in this Summer 2017 TV Preview that’ll keep you cool for the summer, even though it’d be even cooler if there were more than 30 and they all had bigger parts!