dorothy allison

book features

20 Dorothy Allison Quotes I Think About All The Time

“Two or three things I know, but this is the one I am not supposed to talk about, how it comes together — sex and violence, love and hatred.”

Riese —

Nov 16, 2024

first person

Dorothy Allison, Your Florida Is My Florida

Bastard Out of Carolina was the book that made me want to become a writer.

Kristen Arnett —

Nov 11, 2024

book features

Dorothy Allison, Lesbian and Feminist Writer and Activist, Has Died. We Must Keep Learning From Her Life’s Work and ‘Remake the World’

Dorothy Allison died at the age of 75 from cancer earlier this week. Some of my favorite teachers in the world are people I’ve never shared a classroom with, and…

Stef Rubino —

Nov 9, 2024

book lists

55 Literary Books With Great Lesbian Sex Inside Them

Novels, memoirs, essay and short story collections that are really good and also have lesbian sex in them! Wow!

Riese —

Jun 27, 2023

book lists

Read All Of The Books: The Fall 2013 Queer Books Preview

The 50 most essential queer books coming this fall.

Ryan Yates —

Aug 21, 2013

book lists

See The Fascinating Evolution of Cover Art From 12 Legendary Queer Books

Looking back at a century of cover designs from all over the world for beloved queer books like Tipping the Velvet, Orlando, The Color Purple, Annie on my Mind, Rubyfruit…

Riese —

May 9, 2013

book lists

100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time

You voted and the results are in – the best 100 queer-lady fiction or memoir books of all time!

the team —

Dec 11, 2012

book lists

My Top 8 Favorite Authors: Riese, Editor-in-Chief

In which all books mentioned herein were published after 1975 and almost everybody is both female and still alive.

Riese —

Dec 4, 2012

first person

How The South Made Me A Queer Feminist

In the rural South, the word “tomboy” is basically a euphemism for “She’s genderqueer, and she may or may not grow out of it. Hell if we know.”

fonseca —

Aug 7, 2012

book lists

8 Queerish Short Story Books

So many short story books have at least a little touch of queer — like these from Dorothy Allison, Mary Gaitskill, Thisbe Nissen, Amy Bloom and more!

Riese —

Jan 23, 2012

lgbt book reviews

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.”

Rachel —

May 17, 2011

nsfw sunday

NSFW Sunday Has 12 Ways to Read About Lesbian Sex, and Photos

Take a look, it’s in a book, of reading rainbow (because “rainbows” are a gay symbol and maybe you’re gay too, and have lesbian sex, etc)

Riese —

May 1, 2011