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Lez Liberty Lit: Reading on an Empty Stomach

How queer books are still marketed to straight readers, horror novels and OCD, OED feelings, feminist fonts, Virginia Woolf’s photo albums and more.

Ryan Yates —

Mar 1, 2018

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Lez Liberty Lit: Women and Power

The literature of Ezili and finding lesbians and queers in Caribbean literature, feel(ing) free, new Foucault, taking young women’s love stories seriously and more.

Ryan Yates —

Feb 15, 2018

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Lez Liberty Lit: Let’s Hang In Lesbian Victorian London

Lesbian classic Tipping the Velvet turns 20. Plus mansplaining in the OED, RIP Ursula K Le Guin, Elena Ferrante’s new column and more.

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Feb 1, 2018

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Lez Liberty Lit: Backwards Books

A proposed New York prison book ban, asexuality in fiction, working from home, paper planners, spine-in books and more.

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Jan 18, 2018

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Lez Liberty Lit: Go Visit Violet Valley Bookstore

A new queer feminist bookstore in Mississippi, how to read more this year, what to read more of, and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jan 4, 2018

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Lez Liberty Lit: It’s Almost Over

Literary fiction is out, unicorns are in, a master list of queer poets of color, all the best book lists of 2017 and more.

Ryan Yates —

Dec 21, 2017

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Lez Liberty Lit: Write Your Own Escape Routes

This year’s Bad Sex Awards, Black women poets speaking truth to power, learning how to be alone, the problem with categories in literature and more.

Ryan Yates —

Dec 7, 2017

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Lez Liberty Lit: As Simple As Being

Women writers have friendships, too; women having control over their bodies; a poem from Eileen Myles and more.

Ryan Yates —

Nov 24, 2017

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Lez Liberty Lit: We Are Never Lonely In Language

Reading Audre Lorde after Charlottesville, gendered terms in language when you’re non-binary, scary little girls in literature and more.

Ryan Yates —

Nov 9, 2017

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Lez Liberty Lit: Love After Life

Consider only reading queer romance, bisexual slang, horror stories by women and more.

Ryan Yates —

Oct 26, 2017

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Lez Liberty Lit: A Peculiar Malfunction

The Nobel Prize is “fun” now, “Her Body and Other Parties,” Shirley Jackson, Rupi Kaur, the most subversive thing a woman can be and more.

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Oct 12, 2017

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Lez Liberty Lit: Bodies Are Terrifying

Feminist books to inspire creative resistance, book collecting, writers of color and escaping autobiography, Harry Potter fanfiction feelings and more.

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Sep 28, 2017