Here are 5 famous authors who were famous for something other than their writing

Apparently Great Expectations is the peoples’ favourite Dickens novel.

From Elisa Rolle, a post about lesbian pulp writer Ann Bannon. I’ve never read any of her novels ::hangs head in shame::

Most of you have probably already seen this, “Straightening” Gay Characters in ( Read more... )

The Sealed Letter is the second book that I’ve read by wide-ranging lesbian writer, Emma Donoghue.  While I enjoyed the romance of Landing, the historical fiction of The Sealed Letter is more my speed - Victorians! Repressed lesbians! Sex scandals! The early British women’s movement! … what’s not to like?

The Sealed Letter is a fictional ( Read more... )

First, some literature:

A list of 50 novels by African American writers

Flavorwire tells us that these are the 20 most iconic books covers ever . It’s interesting that most of the books on the list are books that middle-class adolescents are expected to read.   This is not to say they’re not iconic covers, just that someone with more mental ( Read more... )

I didn’t do a round-up last Sunday because I didn’t think I had enough links, so now I probably have too many.

From After Ellen, Whatever happened to the cast of But I’m a Cheerleader? This reminds me, actually, that I haven’t written a post about But I’m Cheeleader for my lesbian movie marathon series yet even though it’s one of my favourites.

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Emma Donoghue is a lesbian writer with a really impressive range.  She’s produced literary history, plays and short stories, as well as her novels which cross the genres of historical fiction, contemporary realism and, in the case of Landing, light romance.

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From Feminist SF Blog, the first of a series in honour of Joanna Russ who died recently Remembering Joanna Russ - Part 1 I tried to read The Female Man last year and just couldn’t get on with it, but may give it another go sometime.  The Adventures of Alex is on my bookshelf and I’m looking forward to that one.

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Last week we got together with some women friends to talk about the music that’s influenced our relationships with feminism.  We put together a playlist, listened to each track in turn, and then discussed the reasons why it had made the list.

Talking through the tracks, I was reminded of just how powerfully music becomes associated with particular  ( Read more... )

This an awesome project giving examples of how expressions of power and privilege play out in everyday life:  Microaggressions.com.  There’s also a post discussing the project at Madhushala

A great post from Another Angry Woman, We still need to talk about consensus , about the problems which still affect activist groups, and which are just as ( Read more... )