[image description: the cover of The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves edited by Sarah Moon. It is grey, with a giant orange Q in the centre. The names of the contributing authors are in white in two columns diagonally across the Q. End description.]

erikamoen:

sugarbooty:

So thrilled to share this cover page with two other ridiculously talented writer/illustrator/friend(s), Michael J DiMotta and Erika Moen, both of whom have tumblers that you could be following, but whose links I cannot post because I am on a phone, and at work.

Aw yay, I just got this in the mail today too!

I’m so honored to be included in this book with so many other incredibly talented artists and writers. I definitely teared up reading Jasika Nicole and Lucy Knisley’s submissions. Aaaand, well, honestly, the one page comic I made just for this book is probably the single strip I most proud of having created. So lots of ♥♥♥ all around!

The Letter Q: Queer Writers’ Notes to Their Younger Selves

[image description: a scan of page from Jeanette Winterson’s autobiography, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? It says,

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The Wrong Crib

When my mother was angry with me, which was often, she said, ‘The Devil led us to the wrong crib.’

The image of Satan taking time off from the Cold War and McCarthyism to visit Manchester in 1960—purpose of visit to deceive Mrs Winterson—has a flamboyant theatricality to it. She was a flamboyant depressive; a woman who kept a revolver in the dust drawer, and the bullets in a tin of Pledge. A woman who stayed up all night baking cakes to avoid sleeping in the same bed as my father. A woman with a prolapse, a thyroid condition, an enlarged heart, an ulcerated leg that never healed, and two sets of false teeth—matt for everyday, and a pearlised set of ‘best’.

I do not know why she didn’t/couldn’t have children. I know that she adopted me because she wanted a friend (she had none), and because I was like a flare sent out into the world—a way of saying that she was here—a kind of X Marks the Spot.

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wordsarelikebutter:

Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?

By Jeanette Winterson

[image description: a group of people holding up a banner with a Venn diagram on it. One circle is labelled “lesbians”, the other “librarians”, and the blue area where they overlap is labelled “lesbrarians”. End description.]

persistenceanthology:

Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme recognized in 2012 Stonewall Book Awards

We love librarians (and lesbrarians). A lot. They’re defenders of intellectual freedom and they work hard to keep our libraries stocked with queer and trans literature.

So naturally we were super delighted to find out that the American Library Association named Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme an Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award Honor Book as part of the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards (which recognize English-language works of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender experience).

Thanks, American Library Association! Thanks, librarians!

Photo credit: Sarah Leavitt