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Doris Grumbach wrote novels, essays, and literary criticism in the second half of the 20th century that explored how women were trapped within repressive families and disintegrating marriages. Grumbach also wrote about lesbian characters and themes in a way that was unusual at the time in mainstream literature. She died on November 4, 2022, at … Read more
One Does Not Exist Outside the Other The stories on this Chicana, Latina, Latinx, and Hispanic fiction list touch on race, culture, gender and sexuality. None of these factors is more important than the other because one does not exist outside the other. As You Look by Veronica Gutierrez Former LAPD cop-turned private investigator Yolanda … Read more
Start with the title. Rebent Sinner is a play on “repent, sinner,” the kind of thing shouted from street corners at people like Ivan Coyote. Change one letter and it becomes something else: a sinner who has been bent, and bent again, and is still standing. Coyote has always been good at taking a slur … Read more
Here’s a list of books I’ve read from July to September, 2022. In case it interests you, and in case I need to remember what the hell I’ve read. The following are publisher book summaries. Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion With a forward by Hilton Als, these twelve pieces … Read more
Take a look at Lauren Hough’s work history. United States Air Force airman. Cable installer. Bouncer at a gay club. Writer. Now add the childhood: raised in a cult that moved her family around Germany, Japan, Texas and Chile. That’s not a résumé. That’s the outline of a picaresque novel, except it all happened, and … Read more
Kathleen Joan DeBold, the longtime D.C. LGBTQ activist and editor of Out for Office: Campaigning in the Gay Nineties, died suddenly on October 9, 2022, in Ocean City, Maryland. Born Kathleen Joan DeBold on November 16, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York, to Francis Charles and Joan Marie DeBold, she moved with her family to Maryland … Read more
Early in her adult life, Beverly Little Thunder had a dream. In it she was offered a choice of ponds and picked one with lots of lily pads and no frogs, because she wanted to build a community. According to the /books entry, that’s exactly what she went on to do for the rest of … Read more
Here’s a list of books I’ve read from April to June, 2022. In case it interests you, and in case I need to remember what the hell I’ve read. The following are publisher book summaries. A Short History of the World According to Sheep by Sally Coulthard From the plains of ancient Mesopotamia to … Read more
Influential Jewish Lesbian author Elana Dykewomon passed away on August 7, 2022. She was 72 years old. Her brother Daniel Nachman said the cause was complications of esophageal cancer. Dykewomon’s published works, listed below, spanned more than 40 years. The Lambda Literary Award winner was born Elana Nachman in New York City in 1949. After … Read more
No black woman writer in this culture can write “too much.” Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough. – bell hooks Black and African American Lesbian literature focuses on the experiences of Black women’s experiences. The experiences are shaped by homophobia, racism, sexism, and classism, but are more than … Read more