Results for: read a f*cking book
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Sunday Funday Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
I don’t know you, but I love you.
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Trials and Titillation in Toronto: A Virtual Tour of the Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives
“Happily, in the rainbow-tinted future we are surely headed for, where queer history is included in high school curriculum as a matter of routine, textbook editors will have somewhere to turn for their chapter content: The Canadian Lesbian & Gay Archives.”
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In 1973, Pamela Learned That Posing in Drag With A Topless Woman Is Forever
“During Gay Pride Week, Pamela’s father came to the Village to take her out to dinner… and that’s when Pamela saw it: plastered literally all over the place, on every wall and phone booth, was her own face staring back at her.”
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Grrrls! Grrrls! Grrrls!: What I Learned From Riot
Riot showed us what revolution could look like. We had a new concept of what power could be. We could find it within ourselves and in each other — and we didn’t have to ask.
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For Anyone Who Likes Sex, Feelings, Love Letters, Books, All Of The Above
Carmen’s Team Pick: This is a Melissa Gira Grant appreciation post.
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Eileen Myles Still Has It: The Autostraddle Review of “Snowflake / different streets”
“Suddenly it all became very clear to me what made the two books different, what brought them together, and what let them stand alone. And suddenly I was crying.”
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Six Ways that 1950s Butches and Femmes F*cked with Society, Were Badass
“Butches & Femmes paved the way for tons of fantastic lesbians, radical queers, revolutionary feminists, and really awful (and awesome) hairstyles that came after them.”
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The Lesbian Herstory Archives: A Constant Affirmation That You Exist
“I wish that people thought of it as a place to come on a Saturday afternoon, because it is important and it’s special. It’s not just about the things. It’s about having this home.”
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Autostraddle Read a F*cking Book Club #3 – Bastard Out Of Carolina
“Oh, but that’s why I got to cut his throat,” she said plainly. “If I didn’t love the son of a bitch, I’d let him live forever.”
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Read a F*cking Book Review – “Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme”
WE’RE YOUR BEST GIRLFRIEND AND YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE
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When After School Specials Made Gay People Seem Not-So-Special
Curated video from 80’s and 90’s afterschool specials in which being gay was a lot like being a tornado or a flesh-eating virus.
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Sinclair Sexsmith on “Say Please: Lesbian BDSM Erotica”: The Autostraddle Interview
“The questions quickly became, what is BDSM? And what is lesbian? I’m not sure I know the answer in general, but I figured out a context for this anthology to be born into, some parameters about kinks and fetishes and gender.”
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Ann Bannon, Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Autostraddle Interview
“And so while I would have loved to have done what Laura did, to go to New York and try to find myself, I did the more conventional thing, and I think I was not alone in that.”
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The Very Lesbian Life of Miss Anne Lister
“I give you a selection of the extremely gay life of Miss Anne Lister, a contemporary of Jane Austen and a precursor to Shane McCutcheon.”
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More Maddow, Different Medium: Read the Prologue to Maddow’s New Book, ‘Drift’
I’ll take her any way I can get her
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The Comment Awards Are Leaning Seductively In Your Direction
The only place where you can win awards for talking about bad Glee fashion and getting arrested by Sarah Croce.
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Lambda Literary Awards 2012: New Books to Love
The 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! I want to read everything.
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I Read “Trans/Love” And It Was Awesome
“I just realized wow, there’s so much to be said from the whole range of perspectives: trans women and trans men and everything in between.”
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Autostraddle Book Club #5: We’re Reading The Hunger Games!
Has anyone else not read this yet? No? Just me?
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Read A F*cking Book Club #3: We’re Reading Bastard Out Of Carolina!
We’re going to read Bastard Out Of Carolina and we want you to read it with us!