The Life and Times of Butch Dykes was originally a series of zines, now collected in a highly illustrated hardcover. I was on board from the title page, where the publisher says, “If you bought this on Amazon, I’m so sorry because you could have gotten it cheaper and supported a small, independent publisher atRead More
Bringing the Lesbian Vampire Home: Carmen Maria Machado’s Reclamation of CARMILLA
Carmilla is a lesbian vampire story that predates Dracula by decades. It’s a story I’ve come back to over and over, in the same conflicted way that I am drawn to lesbian pulp. In fact, I wrote a post about queer culture’s tendency to reclaim toxic representation, and how Carmilla and lesbian pulp fits into that. On the one hand, it’sRead More
Landice interviews Anna Burke about her book Spindrift
Anna Burke is not just one of my favorite lesfic authors—she’s one of my all time favorite authors, period. I love her dystopian lesbian pirate debut novel so much that I’ve convinced 6+ different friends to read it, essentially turning my Sapphic Bookstagram group chat into the unofficial Compass Rose fan club, and I creditRead More
Link Round Up: June 1 – 10
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Autostraddle posted 8 Funny Books Featuring Queer Adult Women and The Perfect Queer Poem: When You Need to Find Your Body. Book RiotRead More
Link Round Up: May 18 – 31
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Autostraddle posted The Perfect Queer Poem: For Defining Your Boundaries. Book Riot posted Out First LGBTQ+ Books. Bustle posted 26 NewRead More
Link Round Up: April 21 – May 5
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Autostraddle posted 8 Crime Books Featuring Women Loving Women & Other Queer People. LGBTQ Reads posted New Releases: May 1-7, 2019.Read More
Link Round Up: December 13 – January 1
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Advocate posted The Best Books We Read in 2018: Coffee Table The Best Books We Read in 2018: Queer History & Bios The Best Books We ReadRead More
Link Round Up: November 12 – December 12
This is the Lesbrary bi-weekly feature where we take a look at all the lesbian and bi women book news and reviews happening on the rest of the internet! Autostraddle posted Five Steamy Lesbian Reads for the Holidays and 50 of the Best LGBT Books of 2018. Lambda Literary posted New in December: Kevin Killian, MarkRead More
Link Round Up: February 15 – 28
Autostraddle posted Queers at the End of the World: An Interview with Queer Feminist Fabulist Carmen Maria Machado and Desiree Akhavan on Sex Scenes, Spectatorship, and Shooting ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’: The Autostraddle Interview. Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted The Ten Queer Black Books I’m Most Excited to Read in 2018. LGBTQ Reads posted Around the Blogosqueer:Read More
Lesbrary Link Round Up: August 31 – September 20
Autostraddle posted PHOTO GALLERY: Queer in the Stacks and 10 South Asian LGBTQ Books That Changed My Life. BiblioSapphic posted Romance tropes in Sapphic books || A rec list. Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian posted Queer Books Coming in Fall 2017 from Arsenal Pulp Press and 10 Canadian Bisexual Books to Read for Bi Visibility Week Lambda Literary posted New in September: Ariel Gore, Danez Smith, EileenRead More