There is No Crying for Shed Coffee

In 1681, Andrew Yarranton wrote “Sir, there is no crying for shed milk, that which is past cannot be recall’d”. It’s from from England’s Improvement by Sea and Land. Today, I write, “there is no crying for shed coffee, that which is spilled cannot be drunk.” Day 2 of Uber Eats was only slightly better … Read more

19 Free Lesbian Books You Can Read Right Now

No matter where you live, you are inside the COVID-19 pandemic. First and foremost: This will be okay. The LGBTQI+ Community has been here before – or at least in the neighbourhood. Our community has experienced the HIV/AIDS epidemic. We have been exiled, hunted and ostracized. We have self-isolated, we have sheltered in place. We’ve … Read more

The Straggler on Open Library

Cover of the book, The Straggler

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

“Them” new fiction column

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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

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

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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″]