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Oh the things I do for my readers. All 3 of you! I am updating the database of books, trying to find missing book plots. I found that Agnete Holk’s The Straggler was missing its plot. No problem, just search. Nope. No one has the book plot listed. So, in the interest of completeness and … Read more
Picture a lonely wharf. On it stands a clerk in an ink-blue coat, going through bales of paper. Every bale holds the writing a poet never finished, never published, or never dared to put down. Dionne Brand’s book calls it “the unwritten, the withheld, the unexpressed.” That’s the setup of The Blue Clerk, and it’s … Read more
Them is a Condé Nast LGBTQI2S website starting a new monthly fiction column. They are looking for reader-submitted works. You can submit your stories and poems to their new monthly fiction and poetry column. For April, they’re looking for submissions on the theme of time. This April, leading up to this year’s Met Gala, About … Read more
Forty years ago, I was in the middle of high school. Enough time has passed that I can remember the good stuff – like the bullying from grade school was over – and forget the bad stuff – like, uh, I forget. In high school, I was a nerdy punk. My best friends were a … Read more
You have to read these 5 Irish lesbian books in time for St. Patrick’s Day. It’s one great way to celebrate Irish culture, without alcohol poisoning. St. Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, commemorates St. Patrick and the arrival of Christianity in Ireland. Which is … Read more
On February 21, 2020, author and publisher Lilian Mohin passed away. Lilian was a co-founder of Onlywomen Press in 1974. Independent lesbian feminist presses in the 1970s and 1980s were very important. In 1970, feminists tried to reject lesbians from their political and social action. Lesbians were a menace. We were distracting feminists from … Read more
Lesbianfunworld will be back online soon. But the books! The books are back online. All 14,415 (at last count). I am still working on them, but go ahead (if the link doesn’t seem to work, go to the individual blog listing by clicking on the title). Check out the big list of lesbian books!
Few genres get people as worked up as instapoetry. You know the style: short lines, lots of white space, sentiments about healing and heartbreak, the kind of poem that fits neatly on a phone screen and gets shared thousands of times. Some readers love it because it’s accessible. Some critics hate it for the same … Read more
You can tell just by looking, Black Queer Hoe by Britteney Black Rose Kapri, isn’t for me. And that’s okay. She says it’s okay, and I say it’s okay, so it’s okay. It isn’t for me. But it could be for you. Britteney Black Rose Kapri can speak for herself. [book-info number=”1″]
It’s Black History Month 2020, and I have created a list of 5 classic books by Black Lesbian poets. These books speak of truth, pain, love and joy. Black History Month is celebrated annually in February (in North America). It originated in America in 1926 as “Negro History Week”. It was revised as Black History … Read more