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9 Poems to Read in These Trying Times

danijanae

Apr 2, 2020
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15 Queer/Feminist Books To Read In Early 2016

Ryan Yates

Jan 7, 2016
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‘The Lives They Lived’ Includes Sally Ride And Other Legendary Queers

fonseca

Jan 4, 2013
lgbt history

You Should Go: Lesbian Herstory Archives Marathon Reading – Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich

Gabrielle Korn

Nov 14, 2012
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Adrienne Rich is Dead

Riese

Mar 28, 2012
issues

Pure Poetry #30: These Poems Are Gay, Just Like You

Riese

Mar 24, 2011
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Pure Poetry #17: Adrienne Rich Came to Explore the Wreck

taylor

Mar 7, 2011
politics + activism

Gays and Honor: Some Truths About Lying

Riese

Sep 22, 2010
lgbt history

Female Friends Forever: Looking at Adrienne Rich’s Lesbian Continuum, 30 Years Later

A.J. Conroy

Sep 3, 2010
book lists

Read a F*cking Book: Ten Lesbian & Bisexual Poets To Fall in Love With

Riese

Aug 26, 2010

Adrienne Rich

national poetry month

9 Poems to Read in These Trying Times

book lists

9 Poems to Read in These Trying Times

One place that I have found comfort before and continue to find it now is in poetry, the words of others who have experienced and seen unspeakable things and come…

danijanae —

Apr 2, 2020

Adrienne Rich

gabby rivera

15 Queer/Feminist Books To Read In Early 2016

book lists

15 Queer/Feminist Books To Read In Early 2016

Welcome to your list of queer/ feminist books coming out from January to July 2016. Roxane Gay, Gabby Rivera and erotica, anyone?

Ryan Yates —

Jan 7, 2016

Adrienne Rich

sally ride

‘The Lives They Lived’ Includes Sally Ride And Other Legendary Queers

lgbt history

‘The Lives They Lived’ Includes Sally Ride And Other Legendary Queers

The exhaustive list of legends lost in 2012 includes many American artists and scientists, as well as one Costa Rican you’ve probably never heard of (but will be glad you…

fonseca —

Jan 4, 2013

Adrienne Rich

audre lorde

You Should Go: Lesbian Herstory Archives Marathon Reading – Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich

lgbt history

You Should Go: Lesbian Herstory Archives Marathon Reading – Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich

Come celebrate the lives of two women whose “work and presence as poets, theorists, activists and teachers inspired decades of anti-racist, feminist, and lesbian feminist thought and activism.”

Gabrielle Korn —

Nov 14, 2012

Adrienne Rich

death is sad

Adrienne Rich is Dead

book features

Adrienne Rich is Dead

“She died / a famous woman / denying // her wounds / denying // her wounds / came / from the same source as her power.”

Riese —

Mar 28, 2012

Adrienne Rich

michelle tea

Pure Poetry #30: These Poems Are Gay, Just Like You

issues

Pure Poetry #30: These Poems Are Gay, Just Like You

“You can’t trust lesbians. You invite them / to your party and they don’t come, / they’re too busy tending vaginal / flowers, hating football, walking their golden / and…

Riese —

Mar 24, 2011

Adrienne Rich

poems

Pure Poetry #17: Adrienne Rich Came to Explore the Wreck

book features

Pure Poetry #17: Adrienne Rich Came to Explore the Wreck

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps.

taylor —

Mar 7, 2011

Adrienne Rich

Daily Fix

Gays and Honor: Some Truths About Lying

politics + activism

Gays and Honor: Some Truths About Lying

There are jokes about how politicians lie so much. How do you know a politician is lying? His mouth is moving. Something like that.

Riese —

Sep 22, 2010

Adrienne Rich

feminism

Female Friends Forever: Looking at Adrienne Rich’s Lesbian Continuum, 30 Years Later

lgbt history

Female Friends Forever: Looking at Adrienne Rich’s Lesbian Continuum, 30 Years Later

“If we strip lesbian feminism down to its core – to its advocacy of women-oriented female spaces, women-identified women, and an appreciation of the inequalities and violences that still permeate…

A.J. Conroy —

Sep 3, 2010

Adrienne Rich

andrea gibson

Read a F*cking Book: Ten Lesbian & Bisexual Poets To Fall in Love With

book lists

Read a F*cking Book: Ten Lesbian & Bisexual Poets To Fall in Love With

You probably don’t read enough poetry and you would probably be smarter if you did.

Riese —

Aug 26, 2010