romance
Palatable Love: Seeking a Happily Ever After in a White Publishing World
For many diaspora writers, success is predicated on a hefty down payment of writing through the white gaze.
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Rebekah Weatherspoon Is the Queen of Erotic Romance
If you want to read romances with a bit more erotic heat to them, look no further than Rebekah Weatherspoon.
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Beyond Coming Out: 6 Lesbian Novels That Bring the Romance, and Sex
We deserve books that actively center our pleasure, too.
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The Love Below: 15 Black Romance Movies You Can Watch This Month
What the Obamas have built in real life is available to other Black people through cinema.
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For the Love of Independence: Romance Authors Are Literature’s Unsung Heroines
Women working for themselves while changing the culture of romance is explicitly feminist.
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Revolution In Romance: Jasmine Guillory Gives Black Women the Book We’ve Been Waiting For
Jasmine Guillory might be the author who revitalizes romance novels.
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I Want You, But I'm Triggered: Finding Pleasure When Trauma and Memory Collide
Triggers happen. Here’s what to do when trauma threatens to disrupt your pleasure.
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First Base is the Home Run: Kissing as the Ultimate Pleasure
The importance of being wet and getting wet can’t really be overstated.
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Being a Second Lover Means Loving Yourself First
With a lot of honesty, being a second lover can come with freedom, discovery, and lessons in self-love.
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Small Change: Queer Feminist Characters Deserve “Happily Ever After” Romance Novels
I wanted the romance genre to have space for a character like Ginger.
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