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Lez Liberty Lit: Traditional Vocabulary Is Defunct

Raven Leilani’s Luster and the new vocabulary for morality, how lesbian pulp fiction made one essayist feel normal, a ton of new memoirs and more.

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Aug 13, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Running on Queer Time

What do we do with unthinkable thoughts in the time of covid? Plus: how crime fiction enables police brutality, zines and self-discovery, celebrating the Clueless anniversary, every book you’ll want…

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Jul 30, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Values-Driven Art Making

The past and future of trans narratives, a new Black-owned bookstore in the Twin Cities, updates on everyone’s pandemic diaries and more.

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Jul 16, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Just Say No to a Coronavirus Novel

The problem with new anti-racist book clubs, 50 Black-owned bookstores to support, writing good sex scenes and more.

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Jul 2, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Bodies Are Not Metaphors

How to find a queer incarcerated penpal, why it is correct to capitalize Black, “The Vanishing Half,” “You Exist Too Much,” living in the Cool Zone, it’s time for publishing…

Ryan Yates —

Jun 25, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: The Work Is Bigger than Backorder

Readings and reading lists on Black radicalism, dismantling white supremacy, antiracism, police brutality and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jun 4, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Paying Attention Differently

A time capsule of queer Los Angeles, how paying attention matters, read “A Quick and Easy Guide to Sex and Disability,” black queer writers winning Pulitzer Prizes and more.

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May 21, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: What Will Your Practice Look Like?

Books to break your reading slumps, queer adult comics creators living under FOSTA/SESTA, new Simone de Beauvoir, Meryl Streep’s bookshelves and more.

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May 7, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: It’s Okay If You Can’t Really Read Right Now

Art supply care packages, what even is “normal,” just get weird and more.

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Apr 23, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Reading Weather

Supporting small booksellers online, Samantha Irby on writing, reading or not reading books about pandemics, why it’s time to keep a journal and more.

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Apr 9, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: The Emergency Library

1.4 million free books, virtual museum tours, maintaining a creative practice (but maybe not starting that coronavirus novel) and more.

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Mar 26, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Quarantine Reading

Pandemic reading, writers speaking for themselves rather than for their communities, new books on mental health and more.

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Mar 12, 2020