Facing public restrooms and toilets becomes a challenge when you don’t look like a feminine woman. French lesbian blogger and activist Élisabeth Chevillet flushes out some painful experiences queer people face when trying to mind their pees and queues. [...]
What does it take to bring an audiobook to life? How does a narrator leap from accent to accent, exotic sci-fi place to erotic lesbian sex? It’s all in a day’s work for popular mainstream and lesbian fiction narrator [...]
Jess Lea, author of the charming small-town mystery novel, A Curious Woman, delves into what makes a good mystery. As a kid, one of my favourite movies was The Big Sleep (1946), a black-and-white thriller starring Humphrey Bogart and [...]
Defining Tropes Indelicates.com states: ‘The closest two definitions [of ‘trope’] I can attempt are: 1. Anything at all which has been in at least two fictions and 2. A Cliché.’ The writer—Simon Indelicate, aptly named—explicitly states that we should [...]
She was a nun. She was also tall, stern, brilliant, noble, and above all else–cold. At least, on the surface. But as my twelve-year-old self continued to watch Rosalind Russell’s incredible performance as Mother Superior in The Trouble With [...]
See me, not my disability (and the tall blonde isn’t my carer). Being queer and disabled? I don’t even think about it. My disability doesn’t impact upon my queerness. My queerness doesn’t impact upon my life. Surely that can’t [...]
Movies come and go, like this summer’s splashy Ocean’s 8 with Cate Blanchett playing it gayer than she did in Carol. Television though. That’s the real MVP, where the shows and characters that come into our lives once a [...]
“The flesh beneath Sam’s fingers was hot. Her heart raced; her muscles trembled. This was heaven. Or at least as close to heaven as she would ever get. Minutes ago she had finally managed to pin Gillian up against [...]
Romance: one genre, many different tastes. What’s yours? The term “romance” calls to mind a few stereotypical images of hearts, lit candles, flowers, candy, and couples hand-in-hand. But romance readers are actually a pretty diverse bunch of people with diverse reading tastes. [...]
What do a contemporary medical romance and a romantic urban fantasy have in common? Well, honestly, our two new releases this week—Blurred Lines by debut author KD Williamson and First Blood by veteran author JD Glass—really couldn’t [...]