Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link It was interested to read this book at about twice its target demographic, because it made me reflect back on how I learned this sort of information when I was a teen. This is a YA nonfiction book introducing queer girls to the basics of what it meansRead More
Rachel reviews Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link Hilarious, poignant, and stunningly clever, Jill Gutowitz’s essay collection Girls Can Kiss Now was one of my most anticipated reads of 2022 and it definitely did not disappoint! When I talk about this book (which is often), it usually goes something like this: “I’m reading this book, it’s called Girls CanRead More
Danika reviews Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid by Shayda Kafai
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link My first introduction to disability justice was reading Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, which was one of the most powerful and thought-provoking books I’ve ever read, so when I saw that Arsenal Pulp had released another book on disability justice, I knew I hadRead More
Susan reviews My Alcoholic Escape From Reality by Nagata Kabi
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
Sheila reviews Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
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
Danika reviews The One You Want to Marry (And Other Identities I’ve Had) by Sophie Santos
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
Meagan Kimberly reviews Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
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
Shana reviews The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is my Girlfriend by Maddy Court
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link If you love reading advice columns but wish they were less straight, you may enjoy The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is my Girlfriend as much as I did. This is a warm and witty book about queer love and relationships. Each thematically organized chapter offers short, straightforward answersRead More
Danika reviews Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Amazon Affiliate Link | Bookshop.org Affiliate Link I couldn’t tell you why I started listening to Why Fish Don’t Exist. I must have heard it recommended somewhere, because it was on my audiobook app favorites list, so I gave it a try as something that looked entertaining, but didn’t seem like it would requite myRead More
Danika reviews I’m a Wild Seed: My Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World by Sharon Lee De La Cruz
I’m a Wild Seed is a short graphic memoir exploring the author’s exploration of her identity. It’s about how her “coming into queerness,” but it’s also about her relationship to her racial identity and decolonizing gender and sexuality. Because this is so short, it often reminded me more of an in-depth essay than a graphic memoir–that’sRead More
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