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Lez Liberty Lit: In The Temple of Horror

New original fiction by Carmen Maria Machado, approaching queer community from a place of love, on being publicly shamed, linguistic gatekeeping and more.

Ryan Yates —

Feb 27, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit Is Locating Queer Desire

Finding queer desire in literature, why it can feel uncomfortable to read queer romance, two lesbian poets writing under the same pseudonym and more.

Ryan Yates —

Feb 13, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Take Up Space In The World

The discourse around American Dirt, finding gay hope in The Bluest Eye, what it’d be like if books had smells and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jan 30, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Into The Public Domain

Gay sex in great literature, healing from ancestral trauma, Zora Neal Hurston’s legacy, and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jan 16, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: Don’t Read A Book A Week

Reading goals as a personal hell, memes as a new kind of formalism, a dare to not be productive and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jan 2, 2020

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Lez Liberty Lit: The Word of the Year

“They” is the word of the year! Plus: when languages die, when bookstores unionize, when Hilton Als writes on Joan Didion and more.

Ryan Yates —

Dec 19, 2019

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Lez Liberty Lit Is Drowning in “Best of” Lists

Queer pleasure as a form of resistance, finding your purpose, the best of the best of lists and more.

Ryan Yates —

Dec 10, 2019

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Lez Liberty Lit Is Reading in Translation

Is literary fiction a scam? How do you read the unread books you already own? Are you reading enough books in translation? Wanna read about baby penguins? Click through.

Ryan Yates —

Nov 21, 2019

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Lez Liberty Lit Is in the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado’s new gothic memoir, why reading is different from experiencing, new Elena Ferrante and more.

Ryan Yates —

Nov 7, 2019

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Lez Liberty Lit: “Books” Are Still Not A Personality

“Where are the boundaries between story and real life, between consciousness and an idea?” Plus, the petty errors that pull you out of a piece of writing, how books became…

Ryan Yates —

Oct 24, 2019

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Lez Liberty Lit: Reclaiming Anger

Halloween reading, all the new (and forthcoming!) Carmen Maria Machado, women reclaiming anger and more.

Ryan Yates —

Oct 10, 2019

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Lez Liberty Lit: The Future Is Not Infinite

Nostalgia as a way to connect with diaspora, we are about to lose memory and history, reading on the climate emergency and more.

Ryan Yates —

Sep 26, 2019