by Gabby Rivera
★★★
Tag archives: lgbtq
Love: Beyond Body, Space & Time
by Hope Nicholson (Editor)
★★★★
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Editor)
★★★★★
Picture Us in the Light
by Kelly Loy Gilbert
** spoiler alert **
An Unkindness of Ghosts
by Rivers Solomon
I liked the big picture of the story and the identities of the characters—women of colour, neuroatypical, queer, non-maternal. The pacing was lurching, however, with some episodes feeling out of place, others unfinished, while others still went on too long, like with the multiple flashbacks of misogynist role … Read more
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
★★★★
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone
by James Baldwin
★★★★½
The Cancer Journals
by Audre Lorde
★★★★
A Burst of Light: and Other Essays
by Audre Lorde
★★★★
A Little Life
by Hanya Yanagihara
Struggles presented as universal take on a quality of mocking delusion when the excess of protagonists (only male voices) all become famous millionaires at the top of their fields who own fabulous and plural homes and have access to private jets and Alhambra strolls. The decided main character … Read more
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
by Audre Lorde
★★★★★
My Real Children
by Jo Walton
★★★★★
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
★★★★½
The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
★★★★½
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
★★★
The Summer We Got Free
by Mia McKenzie
★★★
Patternmaster
(Patternmaster #4)
by Octavia E. Butler
★★★½
Another Country
by James Baldwin
★★★
Giovanni’s Room
by James Baldwin
★★★½