High School by Tegan and Sara

Cover of the book by Tegan and Sara, Canadian edition

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

5 Irish Lesbian Books To Read for St. Patrick’s Day

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

Lilian Mohin, Author and Publisher, Passes Away

Drinking a glass of wine and reading Women in the Book Trade

  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

We’re Back

Handmade leather notebook

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!

Black Queer Hoe

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″]

5 Classic Books by Black Lesbian Poets

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

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist and Author, Dies at 72

Poet, academic and activist Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was born in 1945 in Brooklyn, New York. Her parent adopted the surname Kaye prior to her birth; she later appended the family name Kantrowitz to Kaye, linking the two together with a slash to recognize the multigenerational and ethnic histories within her family and within the larger experiences … Read more