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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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Jenn Shapland Names What Needs Naming in “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers”

It has taken over 50 years for us to get the full, queer truth about Carson McCullers’s life, and now I know why. We were waiting for Jenn Shapland.

Kate Gorton —

Jan 7, 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 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: 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

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Lez Liberty Lit Is Motivated By Drive (Or Fear)

Is there a difference between drive and fear? Where are the abortion memoirs? What fall books should you definitely read?

Ryan Yates —

Sep 19, 2019

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Lez Liberty Lit Is Evaluating Everything

YA trans literature, a new national Canadian literature by women, how to evaluate what you see and hear and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jul 19, 2019

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Lez Liberty Lit: Study Your Own Hunger

Feeling like a stranger in your body, on M.F.K. Fisher and joy in eating and writing, beach reads and more.

Ryan Yates —

Jul 4, 2019