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Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America by Krista Burton

December 11, 2023 by Danika Ellis

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! This book really just had to live up to the title for me to love it, and it did. Krista Burton used to run a blog called Effing Dykes that I followed and enjoyed, so I knew I was already a fan of herRead More

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A Genre-Defying Queer Black Memoir: The Black Period by Hafizah Augustus Geter

December 4, 2023 by Danika Ellis

Buy this from Bookshop.org to support local bookstores and the Lesbrary! In 2023, I was a judge for the Nonfiction category of the Lambda Literary Awards. One of the books I read—the one that ended up winning for the category—was The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin. This is a brilliant, expansive book thatRead More

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The Complexity of Being a Queer Refugee: From Here by Luma Mufleh

August 24, 2023 by Til

Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Trigger warnings for this book: suicide attempts and ideation, homophobia, violence Like a lot of Westerners, when I hear about countries with laws against homosexuality, I respond with instinctual aversion: “What a terrible place! I hope any queer people there can leave!” I imagine impediments like the law and its enforcers, economicRead More

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Danika reviews How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

December 10, 2022 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link This may be my favourite book I’ve read this year, and there’s been some stiff competition. How Far the Light Reaches is exactly what the subtitle promises: a life in ten sea creatures. It weaves together facts about aquatic animals with related stories from the author’s own life.Read More

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Maggie reviews Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia

July 18, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia is part memoir, part collection of essays as Neema Avashia recollects growing up as part of a tiny Indian community in a majority white community in a corporate town in West Virginia and her subsequentRead More

the cover of What If We Were… by Axelle Lenoir
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7 Sapphic YA Graphic Novels I Read at Work

May 28, 2022 by Lesbrarians

Alright, I didn’t really read these while at my job. Contrary to what many seem to believe, library workers don’t actually get to read on the clock (much to our chagrin). But I do see a lot while I am shelving, sorting, shipping, and receiving books, and graphic novels are especially eye-catching. Sometimes I’ll seeRead More

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Susan reviews My Alcoholic Escape From Reality by Nagata Kabi

November 10, 2021 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Nagata Kabi is back with My Alcoholic Escape From Reality! The mangaka behind My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness and My Solo Exchange Diary returns with another memoir, this time about being hospitalised for acute pacreatis resulting from her alcoholism. My Alcoholic Escape From Reality feels a lot moreRead More

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Sheila reviews Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

November 1, 2021 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link “I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one’s erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.” Trigger warnings: death, suicide, parental death, divorce, sexual assault, war/military As a queer woman, I have spent a large portion of my lifeRead More

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Danika reviews The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) by Sophie Santos

October 13, 2021 by Danika Ellis

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Link I have to admit, I almost stopped reading this in the first chapter because of the secondhand embarrassment factor. That same impulse that nearly made me put down the book for good also kept me completely enthralled, peeking through my fingers (metaphorically) to read the next page, unable toRead More

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Meagan Kimberly reviews Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay

September 28, 2021 by Lesbrarians

Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I posted a previous version of this review here. Trigger warnings for sexual assault and eating disorders. Roxane Gay is an author known for her sharp and insightful thoughts on feminism and pop culture, as well as an established novelist and short fiction creator. This memoir added toRead More

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