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Lez Liberty Lit: The End

Over the decade-ish that I’ve been writing this column, the number of published queer and trans stories has exploded.

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Dec 30, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Just for the Sake of It

The transformative power of queer breakups, exploring the ongoing trauma of the AIDS crisis, some 2021 faves, and more.

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Dec 16, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Do Not Privatize Libraries

Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.

Ryan Yates —

Dec 2, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Queer Books as Hydra

The color-coded bookshelf conversation continues, queer books are unstoppable, queerness in Sally Rooney’s work, and more.

Ryan Yates —

Nov 18, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Reading in Front of the Screen Fire

Find out books to read if you like Practical Magic, what it’s like to cook like Frankenstein, where “old book smell” comes from, and more!

Ryan Yates —

Nov 4, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Love Is Renewable

Are you considering NaNoWriMo? Plus, a library from Solange, how literary gatekeepers can elevate Black trans women writers, queer webcomics and more.

Ryan Yates —

Oct 22, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Liminal Spaces

Queer time and liminal spaces, a library facing possible charges for carrying sex education books, the myth of universality in literature, and more.

Ryan Yates —

Oct 7, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit Is Engineering a Hot Streak

The dark side of the golden trans literary moment, what your emoji use says about how old you are (probably), what a hot streak means for artistic success and more.

Ryan Yates —

Sep 23, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Ground Yourself

Creating work while living with chronic pain, a brief grounding exercise, the state of ambiguous loss and more.

Ryan Yates —

Sep 9, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: A Gaping MAW

A great new horror comic, what to do when things feel scattered, a new Octavia Butler biography, the possibility of wandering in the digital age and more.

Ryan Yates —

Aug 26, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit: Time, Faith, Momentum

Phones belong in museums, the magic ingredients for creativity, why work is not the same as identity and more.

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Aug 12, 2021

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Lez Liberty Lit Has Simply Had Enough of Drowning

How to live in a burning world without losing your mind, read these books in the second half of 2021, why to reconsider air conditioning, uncategorized creative work, a love…

Ryan Yates —

Jul 29, 2021