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Me: I mean depends on your tolerance for this type of racism, but like I said it's my favourite show, it def has some great parts if you're up for it.

Them: Oh so it's not racist.

Me: It absolutely is.

Them: So you're saying racism is ok??

me: Are you fucking kidding me Larius I told you to do that outside, now it's gonna smell like ass in here all day

my elf roommate: *puffs a perfect ring of smoke* What Is A Day In A Life That Lasts Centuries?

me: not everybody lives as long as you dude. put that thing away

my elf roommate: That Is Not What Thy Mother Said

me: hilarious

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200 books about lesbians and female homosexuality: histories, memoirs, biographies, essays, and more

History

– The Amazon and the Page: Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien by Karla Jay – Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz and Lisa Auanger – Arabo-Islamic Texts on Female Homosexuality, 850-1780 A.D. by Samar Habib – Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65 by Cameron Duder – Baby, You Are My Religion: Women, Gay Bars, and Theology Before Stonewall by Marie Cartier – Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy – Britannia’s Glory: A History of Twentieth-Century Lesbians by Emily Hamer – Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves – Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbians During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann – Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo – The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China by Tze-Lan D. Sang – Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures by Bonnie Zimmerman – Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture by Laura Doan – Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations by Samar Habib – The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian America by Lindsy Van Gelder and Pamela Robin Brandt – Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture by Alison Oram – Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 by Martha Vicinus – A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500 by Rebecca Jennings – The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780 to 1970 by Alison Oram – Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities by Francesca Stella – Lesbian Origins by Susan Cavin – The Lesbian Premodern by Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt – Lesbians in Early Modern Spain by Sherry Velasco – The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward by D. Merilee Clunis – Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism by Bernadette J. Brooten – Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community Across Canada, 1964-84 by Liz Millward – Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History, 1840-1985 by Lesbian History Group – Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman – Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801 by Emma Donoghue – The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England by Valerie Traub – Sakhiyani: Lesbian Desire in Ancient and Modern India by Giti Thadani – Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn – Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women by Leila J. Rupp – Scotch Verdict by Lillian Faderman – The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830 by Susan S. Lanser – Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes by Lisa L. Moore – Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States by Trisha Franzen – Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman – To Believe in Women: What Lesbians Have Done for America by Lillian Faderman – Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings – Unnamed Desires: A Sydney Lesbian History by Rebecca Jennings – Women Like Us by Suzanne Neild

Biography and Memoir

– Active Voice The Comic Collection: The Real Life Adventures of an Asian-American, Lesbian, Feminist, Activist and Her Friends! by P. Kristen Enos – The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein – Barbara Gittings: Gay Pioneer by Tracy Baim – Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa – Black Bull, Ancestors, and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma by Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde – Black Lesbian in White America by Anita Cornwell – Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu – Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger by Kelly J. Cogswell – Elsa: I Come With My Songs by Elsa Gidlow – Facing the Music: My Story by Jennifer Knapp – Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel – Gluck: 1895-1978 : Her Biography by Diana Souhami – Hear Me OUT!: A Dose of Lesbian Humor for The Whole Human Race by Laura Jimenez – Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir by Maggie Thrash – I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro – In My Skin: My Life On and Off the Basketball Court by Brittney Griner – Journey into My Underworld: An Autobiography of a Lesbian Journey by Jo Alexander – Kicking the Habit: A Lesbian Nun Story: An Autobiographical Novel by Jeanne Córdova – Lion Woman’s Legacy: An Armenian-American Memoir by Arlene Voski Avakian – My Butch Career: A Memoir by Esther Newton – My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata – Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer by Chely Wright – My Red Blood: A Memoir of Growing Up Communist, Coming Onto the Greenwich Village Folk Scene, and Coming Out in the Feminist Movement by Alix Dobkin – Naked in the Promised Land: A Memoir by Lillian Faderman – Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe L. Moraga – Once Upon a Convent: A Memoir of a Lesbian Nun by Orice Klaas – The Other Side of Paradise by Staceyann Chin – Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert – Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey by Jackie Kay – Riding Fury Home: A Memoir by Chana Wilson – The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister by Anne Lister – Seriously…I’m Kidding by Ellen DeGeneres – Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho by Diana Lewis Burgin – A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia’s Only All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith – Spectacles by Sue Perkins – Spinning by Tillie Walden – Spit and Passion by Cristy C. Road – Straight Walk: A Supermodel’s Journey to Finding Her Truth by Patricia Velásquez – Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation by Karla Jay – The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami – The Truth Is…:My Life in Love and Music by Melissa Etheridge – Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison – A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby – Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi – When We Were Outlaws: A Memoir of Love and Revolution by Jeanne Córdova – Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson – A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor – Women Prefer Women by Elula Perrin – You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson

Culture and Everyday Life

– The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture by Terry Castle – Cats (And Their Dykes): An Anthology by Irene Reti – Conditional Spaces: Hong Kong Lesbian Desires and Everyday Life by Denise Tse-Shang Tang – The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture by Bonnie J. Morris – Eden Built by Eves: The Culture of Women’s Music Festivals by Bonnie J. Morris – Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan by Sharon Chalmers – Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi – Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam – Garden Variety Dykes: Lesbian Traditions in Gardening by Irene Reti – Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists by Maria Dolores Costa – Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History by Harmony Hammond – Lesbian Communities: Festivals, RVs, and the Internet by Esther D. Rothblum – Lesbian Culture: An Anthology: The Lives, Work, Ideas, Art and Visions of Lesbians Past and Present by Julia Penelope – Lesbian Land by Joyce Cheney – Lesbian Passion: Loving Ourselves and Each Other by JoAnn Loulan – A Lesbian Photo Album: The Lives of Seven Lesbian Feminists by Cathy Cade – Lesbian Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand by Alison Laurie – Loving Women: Being Lesbian in Unprivileged India by Maya Sharma – The New Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book by Ginny Vida – Out and About: Sydney’s Lesbian Social Scene, 1960s-1980s by Rebecca Jennings – The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader by Joan Nestle – Witches Heal: Lesbian Herbal Self-Sufficiency by Billie Potts – Women in Love: Portraits of Lesbian Mothers & Their Families by Barbara Seyda

Literature and Media

– Backward Glances: Contemporary Chinese Cultures and the Female Homoerotic Imaginary by Fran Martin – Chinese Lesbian Cinema: Mirror Rubbing, Lala, and Les by Liang Shi – Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the Seventeenth Century to the Present by Lillian Faderman – Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama by Denise Walen – Crossing Borders: Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures by Sahar Amer – Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore – The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940 by Victoria A. Brownworth – Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identities and Cultural Space by Sally R. Munt – Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue – Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France by Nicole Albert – Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho by Jane McIntosh Snyder – Lesbian Detective Fiction: Woman as Author, Subject and Reader by Phyllis M. Betz – The Lesbian Fantastic by Phyllis M. Betz – The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography by Barbara Grier – Lesbian Menace by Sherrie A. Inness – Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 by Katherine V. Forrest – Lesbian Romance Novels: A History and Critical Analysis by Phyllis M. Betz – Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions by Karla Jay and Joanne Glasgow – Lesbian Voices from Latin America by Elena M. Martinez – The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall by Terry Castle – New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings by Sally R. Munt – Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert – Out on the Shelves: Lesbian Books Into Libraries by Jane Allen – The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance by Hannah Roche – Performing La Mestiza: Textual Representations of Lesbians of Color and the Negotiation of Identities by Ellen Gil-Gomez – The Safe Sea of Women: Lesbian Fiction 1969-1989 by Bonnie Zimmerman – Sappho in Early Modern England: Female Same-Sex Literary Erotics, 1550-1714 by Harriette Andreadis – Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism by Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope – Strange Sisters: The Art of Lesbian Pulp Fiction 1949-1969 by Jaye Zimet – (Un)Familiar Femininities: Studies in Contemporary Lesbian South Asian Texts by Aneeta Rajendran – Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema by Andrea Weiss – What Lesbians Do In Books by Elaine Hobby and Chris White – With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians by Catriona Rueda Esquibel

Feminism and Academia

– All the Rage: Reasserting Radical Lesbian Feminism by Lynne Harne and Elaine Miller – Brazen Hussies: A Herstory of Radical Activism in the Women’s Liberation Movement in Victoria 1970–1979 by Jean Taylor – Call Me Lesbian: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Theory by Julia Penelope – Country Lesbians: The Story of the WomanShare Collective by Sue Deevy – Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches and Diatribes by Irena Klepfisz – Dykes Loving Dykes: Dyke Separatist Politics for Lesbians Only by Bev Jo – For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology by Sarah Lucia Hoagland – The House That Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation by Becki Ross – Lesbian Ethics by Sarah Lucia Hoagland – Lesbian Feminism in Turn-of-the-Century Germany by Lillian Faderman and Brigitte Eriksson – The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs by Estelle B. Freedman, Barbara C. Gelpi, and Susan L. Johnson – Lesbian Philosophies and Cultures by Jeffner Allen – Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations by Jeffner Allen – The Lesbian Postmodern by Laura Doan – The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker – Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon – Lesbians Ignite!: In Victoria in the 1990s by Jean Taylor – Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom by Beth Mintz and Esther D. Rothblum – Love & Politics: Radical Feminist & Lesbian Theories by Carol Anne Douglas – The New Lesbian Studies: Into the Twenty-First Century by Bonnie Zimmerman – Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love – Separatism and Women’s Community by Dana R. Shugar – Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz: Selected Works by Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz – The Straight Mind: And Other Essays by Monique Wittig – Stroppy Dykes: Radical Lesbian Feminist Activism in Victoria During the 1980s by Jean Taylor – This Is What Lesbian Looks Like: Dyke Activists Take on the 21st Century by Kris Kleindienst – The Trouble With Islam Today: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith by Irshad Manji – Unleashing Feminism: A Critique of Lesbian Sadomasochism in the Gay Nineties by Irene Reti – Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies by Suzanne Raitt

Anthologies: Lives and Relationships