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COMIC: "Hothead Paisan" by Diane DiMassa
Hothead Paisan is a fun, biting cult comic by American writer and artist Diane DiMassa (b. 1959). The title character is a "homicidal lesbian terrorist" who goes on caffeine-induced murderous rampages to wreak vengeance on rapists and sexists and racists and just generally to right the wrongs all women have felt at one time or another as members ( Read more... ) -
BOOK: Alex, As Well by Alyssa Brugman
Alex just wants to be a normal teenager, experimenting with make-up, girls and vegetarianism. Why is this so hard for her parents to accept? And why can't she shut up the boy-Alex who's still inside her? A decision to stop taking medication results in events spiralling out of control as Alex tries to figure out matters such as identity, gender, ( Read more... ) -
BOOK: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Link to the book on Amazon
One of my favorite reads of the past couple years is this gorgeous, romantic retelling of The Iliad. Familiarity with the basic story of the Trojan War is helpful but certainly not required to enjoy this story- it is a wonderful piece of historical/mythical fiction regardless of ( Read more... ) -
Art Blog/Artist: Super Queer Artsy Blog (Elias Ericson)
Today I'd like to rec a Swedish artist, Elias Ericson, who can be found at Super Queer Artsy Blog. Elias draws comic strips and has an ongoing webcomic; he also has a published comic called Åror (Oars), and a forthcoming children's book called Blompojken (The Flower Boy). But because the books are only available in Swedish, I'm going to focus on ( Read more... ) -
Book: 'The Country without a Post Office: Poems' by Agha Shahid Ali
Widely regarded as Kashmir’s national poet, Agha Shahid Ali was born in Kashmir in 1949 and died in the US in 2001. His work has been included in a range of anthologies with disparate topics, varying from Harold Bloom’s Till I End My Song: A Gathering of Last Poems to Hoshang Merchant’s Yaarana: Gay Writing from South AsiaI’ll focus here on one ( Read more... ) -
Book: More Than This, by Patrick Ness
Seth drowns, and then he wakes up...in a strange, abandoned world that's like a dystopian version of his childhood home. Slowly he begins to gather the things he needs to survive, but every time he falls asleep, he is haunted by the best and most painful memories of his life: the events involving his friends, Gudmund, Monica and H, which led to ( Read more... ) -
Posting instructions
June is almost here, and lgbtq_recs will start posting on Monday ( Read more... ) -
Signs ups for LGBTQ Recs 2014!
Reccers and watchers and faithful fans, June is almost here! Have you read, watched, listened to, or scrolled through any queer-themed (and/or queer-authored) media recently? Would you like to share a bit about these books, graphic novels, movies, tv shows, performances, radio shows or podcasts, or websites with us ( Read more... ) -
Master list for June 2013
Here's the master list for June 2013. As usual, we're a bookish crowd--in fact, seven out of seventeen recommendations were for fiction. But liseuse kept us in the twenty-first century with some webseries recommendations. Thanks to everyone for passing along the name of something you've enjoyed! Happy reading, watching, and listening, all.
( Books: Fiction )
