Category: Literary Collections

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Confessions Of The Letter Closet by Patrick Paul Garlinger

Confessions Of The Letter Closet | Patrick Paul Garlinger | By the beginning of the twentieth century, epistolary novels in Spain increasingly grappled with homoerotic and homosexual desire, treating it as a se

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Literary Collections

The Pleasure Of Their Company by Doris Grumbach

The Pleasure Of Their Company | Doris Grumbach | Using the occasion of her eightieth-birthday party to reflect on the past, Doris Grumbach delivers an enchanting memoir of the writers, friends, and l

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Literary Collections Poetry

Loving In The War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios by Cherrie Moraga

Loving In The War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios | Cherrie Moraga | Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminis

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A Xicana Codex Of Changing Consciousness by Cherrie Moraga

A Xicana Codex Of Changing Consciousness | Cherrie Moraga | A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, q

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The Care We Dream Of by

The Care We Dream Of | | ‘The follow-up to the Lambda Literary Award-winning anthology The Remedy: new ways of imagining what LGBTQ+ health care could look like. What if you c

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The Lesbian Periodicals Index by Clare Potter

Clare Potter | The Lesbian Periodicals Index | Claire Potter’s The Lesbian Periodicals Index is the lifetime labor of the author, a librarian and indexer. It is an author-and-subject index to forty

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Collections

Growing Up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law

Benjamin Law | Growing Up Queer in Australia | ‘No amount of YouTube videos and queer think pieces prepared me for this moment.’‘The mantle of “queer migrant” compelled me to keep going – to go fur

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The A to Z of Lesbian Literature by Meredith Miller

Meredith Miller | The A to Z of Lesbian Literature | While lesbian literature can trace its name back to the Greek poet Sappho, who was born on the Island of Lesbos in 630 B.C., it was not until the past

Posted in Fiction Literary Collections

Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma Femme by Adolphe Belot

Adolphe Belot | Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma Femme | ‘The sensational Mademoiselle Giraud, my Wife (originally published in 1870 with a preface by Zola) tells of the suffering of a naive young man whose

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Wear A Helmet by Kelli Jae Baeli

Kelli Jae Baeli | Wear A Helmet | Collected blogs 2009

Think David Sedaris meets Nora Ephron. In Wear a Helmet, Baeli again displays her ability to swing from unapologetic hum