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interview

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literature

“Small Beauty” is a Big Deal for Queer Lit and Trans Girls: An Interview With Author Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

Wilson-Yang deftly weaves and unweaves the threads of narrative tropes that have come to dominate the telling of the stories of trans women, lesbians, migrants, and Chinese North Americans.

Kai Cheng —

Aug 25, 2016

notes from a queer engineer

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geekery

6 Awesome Books About Women Kicking Ass In STEM

Finish out your summer with some queer engineer approved picks.

Laura Mandanas —

Aug 24, 2016

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YA

literature

Read A F*cking Book: “Go Deep” by Leigh Matthews

The latest installment in the All Out Vancouver series brings back all our favorite characters — and some heavy themes.

Adrian —

Aug 5, 2016

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sci-fi/fantasy

literature

Read a F*cking Book: “The Regulars” is a Feminist Fairy Tale, Kinda

Three twenty-something friends living in New York City accidentally acquire a mysterious liquid substance called Pretty, that, when imbibed, turns the drinker into a physically augmented version of themselves. Shenanigans…

Maree —

Aug 2, 2016

memoir

nonfiction

geekery

Notes From A Queer Engineer Recommends “Lab Girl”

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is one of the most exquisite pieces of science writing I’ve ever read. As a researcher and professor of geobiology for the past 20 years,…

Laura Mandanas —

Jun 1, 2016

disability

Lists/Top 10s

literature

Crip Lit: Toward An Intersectional Crip Syllabus

Imagine queercrip figures that resist limited notions of embodiment and medical pathology, and demand more expansive understandings of disability, gender and sexuality.

Tovah —

May 23, 2016

gender identity

memoir

literature

Read a F*cking Book: “Oscar of Between” Embraces Transitional Spaces

Warland, and Oscar of Between, is refreshingly unconcerned with being there already. Instead, she deep-dives into the potency of occupying transitional spaces, the beauty of being in-between.

Maree —

Apr 20, 2016

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literature

Read a F*cking Book: “The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (With Cats!)” Is Everything You Care About

Don’t label me — I’m a non-het identified poly pagan witch.

Heather Hogan —

Apr 7, 2016

fullscreen

memoir

literature

Attempting to Contain Everything: Dodie Bellamy’s “When the Sick Rule the World”

“I finally felt that I was being led by someone as deliciously ill-equipped at being in this world as I am. And by the time it was over I thought…

Aisha —

Mar 22, 2016

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lgbt book reviews

Read a F*cking Book: “The Lillian Trilogy”

Mary Meriam doesn’t flinch at female eroticism, at emotional turmoil, at social upheaval, at the truth of human cruelty. She also doesn’t flinch at rhyme, rhythm, formal constraint, or ancient…

Siham Karami —

Feb 25, 2016

autostraddle book club

Juliet Takes a Breath

book features

Read A F*cking Book Club: A Conversation With Gabby Rivera About “Juliet Takes A Breath”

We’re talking to Gabby Rivera about her debut novel “Juliet Takes a Breath”! We talk about subtleties in Latinx media representation, queer community, forgiveness and, of course, Lil’ Melvin.

Yvonne —

Feb 18, 2016

Lists/Top 10s

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book lists

7 Must-Read Books on Queer History and Identity in the South

The South’s conservative and religious majority has made it nearly impossible to suss out the queers in classic Southern literature and in the history books. That’s why this list exists.

Sydney —

Feb 15, 2016