Simon Goldhill | A Very Queer Family Indeed | “We can begin with a kiss, though this will not turn out to be a love story, at least not a love story of anything like the usual kind.” So begins A
Leslie Brody | Sometimes You Have To Lie | ‘The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh’s masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation a
Hilary Holladay | The Power of Adrienne Rich | The first comprehensive biography of Adrienne Rich, feminist and queer icon and internationally revered National Book Award winning poet. Adrienne Ri
Sarah Liss | Army of Lovers | Will was pretty much the perfect role model.’ – Beth Ditto, The Gossip In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroe
Jane Gilmour | Colette’s France | French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the ren
Judith Thurman | Secrets of the Flesh | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century’s first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake an
Mackenzi Lee | Bygone Badass Broads | Based on Mackenzi Lee’s popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women f
Sarah Prager | Rainbow Revolutionaries | One of Time Out’s “LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month,” this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes
Charlotte Bunch; Nancy Myron | Women Remembered | A collection of short biographies of women originally printed in The Furies. Ranging from the Trojan Women to Gertrude Stein, each article discusses t
Bettina F. Aptheker | Intimate Politics | At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her family’s politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her father, historian an
