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#WeNeedDiverseBooks

May 22, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Here’s my rather late contribution to #WeNeedDiverseBooks. What are some of your favourite queer women of colour reads? I’m especially interested in ones written by queer authors of colour.

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Round Up: May 16 – 21

May 21, 2014 by Danika Ellis

       Autostraddle posted Lez Liberty Lit #46: Today’s So Quick. LGBTQ Recs Month posted Signs ups for LGBTQ Recs 2014! Sista Outsider posted Bay Area Lesbian History Archives Project. Emma Donoghue was interviewed at Lambda Literary. Malinda Lo was discussed by Tess Sharpe at the Guardian.        Radclyffe was interviewed at Lesbian Reading Room.Read More

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Hannah reviews I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif

May 20, 2014 by Danika Ellis

First, let us acknowledge Shamim Sharif not only for her book, but for her book’s title. Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m still amused by I Can’t Think Straight. I Can’t Think Straight is written through the alternating viewpoints of British-Indian Leyla, an aspiring writer, and Palestinian Tala, four-times-engaged and quickly becoming a headache for her traditionalRead More

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Krait reviews Positive Lightning by Laurie Salzler

May 19, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Positive Lightning –- After first reading the title, I had to start with researching what the heck “positive lightning” actually is. Was it just a play on words? In short, no – positive lightning is a rare phenomenon where an extraordinarily powerful lightning strike runs from cloud to ground (rather than the other way around), and theyRead More

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Danika reviews This Is What Happened In Our Other Life by Achy Obejas

May 18, 2014 by Danika Ellis

  Almost all of my poetry reviews begin the same way: with me expressing that I don’t know how to review poetry. With that in mind, I’m going to keep this review pretty brief, because I don’t think I have much to add to the conversation. As a personal preference, I usually enjoy poetry thatRead More

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Danielle Ferriola reviews Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh

May 17, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Goosebumps formed on my skin the moment I began reading Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh. Aesthetically pleasing and beautifully written, Maroh immediately captured my attention and my heart. The story begins with Emma reading diary entries written by her love, Clementine. Although Clementine has passed, her memories are very much alive. ClementineRead More

Lizzy & Annie by Casey Plett
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Danika reviews Lizzy & Annie by Casey Plett

May 15, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Lizzy & Annie by Casey Plett is an illustrated short story bound zine-style. It follows a romance between two trans women in New York City and it’s pretty much perfect. When I heard about about the premise of Lizzy & Annie (trans lesbians story? trans lesbians of colour? written by a trans woman? with gorgeous watercolour illustrations??), IRead More

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Link Round-Up: May 8 – 15

May 15, 2014 by Danika Ellis

       AfterEllen posted The AfterEllen.com Book Club: “Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution” and “Lumberjanes” is the comic for the little queer Girl Scout in your heart. Autostraddle posted 14 Locations Conducive To Lesbianism According To 1954′s “Female Homosexuality” and 12 (More) Ladies Who Were Writing Sexy Lesbian Love Letters Before You Got Born. Diversifya posted Introducing: the DivYAQnA.  Read More

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Danika reviews When I Was Straight by Julie Marie Wade

May 13, 2014 by Danika Ellis

  When I Was Straight is a brief (42 pages) poetry collection by Julie Marie Wade. It is split into two sections: “Before.”, in which all the poems are titled “When I Was Straight” and “After.”, which are titled “When ___ Learns I am a Lesbian”. Because the first half of the collection has theRead More

Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older cover
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Danika reviews Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older

May 11, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Long Hidden is an anthology of stories that take place between the 1400s and early 1900s, include some element of speculative fiction (mostly fantasy, some horror, a little sci fi), and are about marginalized people. This is not an all-lesbian collection, as you probably guessed, but it does include at least two lesbian stories (at leastRead More

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