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#literature #regular #lez liberty lit #LGBT literature #malinda lo #mary gaitskillLez Liberty Lit #49: Summer Reading Lists
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth was removed from a high school summer reading list in Delaware, allegedly due to complaints about its inappropriate language. At Diversity in YA, Malinda Lo discusses the removal:
“Board president Spencer Brittingham told the reader who wrote to him: ‘I can assure you that I am not homophobic and never did…
Lez Liberty Lit #42: Didactic Dialogue and Book Doctors
by carolyn & riese
Malinda Lo writes about including didactic dialogue about race and sexuality in her books, and why it sometimes reads awkwardly, and why she does it because of that:
“Even when these kinds of interactions are written in character, some readers will check out of the narrative and think, ‘This is not realistic.’ Some readers always balk at straightforward grappling with race and…
Lez Liberty Lit #43: Basically An Excuse To Talk About Wodehouse
by carolyn & riese
Kickass female protagonists are often skinny, if not fully emaciated, and that’s weird, and also a problem:
“Today’s strong female protagonists are overwhelmingly described as “small,” “skinny,” and “slender.” It seems literature only goes so far in its message of female empowerment, routinely granting its most kickass heroines classically masculine-levels of strength (physical or otherwise) only when cloaked within the trappings of a more delicate—and recognizable—femininity.
Lez Liberty Lit #41: Not Computer Generated
by carolyn & riese
Books! They are really great. You just won’t believe how great they are. You may think that the Internet’s great, but that’s just peanuts compared to books. In Lez Liberty Lit, we talk about literary shit that’s happening that you should probably care about. The name “Liberty Lit” was inspired by the short-lived literary…
Lez Liberty Lit #53: A To-Read Pile To The Moon
By Carolyn & Riese
Feature image of the Livraria Lello and Irmao in Porto Portugal via bookshelfporn.
There is an excerpt from Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist at the Guardian and it is perfect:
“My success, such as it is, is supposed to be enough if I’m a good feminist. It is not enough. It is not even close. Because I have so many deeply held opinions about gender equality, I feel a lot of pressure…
Lez Liberty Lit #46: Today’s So Quick
Eileen Myles poems, reading poetry, topless reading parties, excerpts from An Untamed State and more.
Lez Liberty Lit #57: Defining A Golden Age
At Dissent, Roxane Gay discusses what makes a novel a feminist novel:
“Feminism concerns the equality of women. When I say equality, I mean that women should be able to move through the world with the same ease as men. Women should be able to live in a society where their bodies are not legislated. They should be able to live their lives free from the threat of sexual violence. And when we…
Lez Liberty Lit #59: Luminous Misandry
At Midnight Breakfast, MariNaomi wrote about people of color, tokenism and stereotypes, and interviews several cartoonists, including Elisha Lim, Yumi Sakugawa, Jennifer Camper and more, on writing and visually portraying people of color.
A canon of books for girls is so important.
You should know these five black sci-fi writers, including Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor and N.K. Jemisin.
There…
Lez Liberty Lit #47: Filled With Poetry
by carolyn & riese
Maya Angelou has died at age 86.
In an interview with the Rumpus, Janet Mock discusses her memoir Redefining Realness, misogyny, her family, having a sense of community, conversations about language and more:
“I think it [the Marie Clairestory] forced a lot of people who weren’t having these conversations about trans people to develop better language. And my whole thing on CNN…
spacesapphist asked:
autostraddle just put out an article titled “Actresses Born Before My Grandma Ranked by How Badly I Want Them to Top Me” that i think is relevant to this blog lol