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"This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
“Words can wound—but they’re bridges, too. (Like the bridges that are all that Genghis left behind.) Though maybe a bridge can also be a...
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Jun 22 min read


"Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel
" My homosexuality remained at that point purely theoretical, an untested hypothesis. But it was a hypothesise so thorough and so...
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Jun 22 min read


"Orlando" by Virginia Woolf
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated...
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Apr 241 min read


"Notes of a Crocodile" by Qiu Miaojin
“Those wrenching eyes, which could lift up the entire skeleton of my being. How I longed for myself to be subsumed into the ocean of her...
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Apr 242 min read


"A Dream of a Woman" by Casey Plett
"She leanred forward in the chiar. She thought of a generation of girls who might grow up strong and unbothered and untouched, healthy,...
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Apr 241 min read


"Our Wives Under the Sea" by Julia Armfield
Themes: Uncertainty; Paranoia; Mundanity; Romance; Desire; Light/Dark; Memory; Religion; Eyes/Sight Discussion Questions: What do you...
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Apr 241 min read


"She Who Became the Sun" by Shelley Parker-Chan
"When all we have are these brief spans between our nonexistences, why not make the most of the life you're living now? The price is...
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Apr 241 min read


"Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" by Jeanette Winterson
“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever....
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Apr 241 min read


"Sunburn" by Chloe Michelle Howarth
" She is fresh air, and warmth, and mornings in July. What is there to fix? There is evil in my yearning, I know, I just can't see where...
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Apr 241 min read


"Hijab Butch Blues" by Lamya H.
“I’ve learned to reframe telling people as inviting in, instead of coming out — inviting into a place of trust, a place for building —...
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Apr 241 min read


"House of Hunger" by Alexis Henderson
“I’ve built you a house out of my bones and still it’s as if you believe there are cracks in it.” Themes: Desire; Power; Competition;...
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Apr 241 min read


"Mrs. S" by K. Patrick
"The impulse to know all of her, the idea that I could, the accidental promise of her raised eyebrows." Themes: Gender; Romance;...
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Apr 241 min read


"We All Loved Cowboys" by Carol Bensimon
Themes: Coming-Of-Age; Desire; Sexuality; Friendship; Summer; Good Luck, Babe! Discussion Questions: How does Bensimon establish the...
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Apr 241 min read


"Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo
“Perhaps that was the most perverse part of this: the inside-outness of everything, as if denial would make it go away, when it only made...
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Apr 241 min read


"You Exist Too Much" by Zaina Arafat
“'Someone needs to tame you.' I felt my heart sink at the fatalism of her reasoning. Yet we laughed and kept holding on to each other....
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Apr 241 min read


"The Queens of Sarmiento Park" by Camila Sosa Villada
"We keep to ourselves, a small pack of wandering the margins of the world. We save money and give it to them, the same people who eat us...
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Apr 241 min read


"All This Could Be Different" by Sarah Thankam Mathews
“I am trying, late in the evening, to say something about love, which for many of us is not separable from the other shit.” Themes:...
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Apr 241 min read


"The Gilda Stories" by Jewelle Gomez
“Life was indeed interminable. The inattention of her contemporaries to some mortal questions, like race, didn’t suit her. She didn’t...
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Apr 241 min read


"Stone Butch Blues" by Leslie Feinberg
“Who was I now—woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if...
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Apr 241 min read
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