romance

Hot and Unbothered: The Romance Novels Rewriting Disability and Sex

Gabriela Ramos Tavárez celebrates recent romance novels that give voice to the sex lives people with disabilities can have. 

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

Beyond Coming Out: 6 Lesbian Novels That Bring the Romance, and Sex

We deserve books that actively center our pleasure, too. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

First Base is the Home Run: Kissing as the Ultimate Pleasure

The importance of being wet and getting wet can’t really be overstated. Read more »

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. Read more »

Small Change: Queer Feminist Characters Deserve “Happily Ever After” Romance Novels

I wanted the romance genre to have space for a character like Ginger. Read more »

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Hot Under the Bonnet: The Cooptation of Amish Culture in Mass-Market Fiction

Dubbed “Amish romance novels,” “Amish fiction,” or the more waggish “bonnet rippers,” these novels just one entry point into the varying images of Amish communities in U.S. popular culture. Read more »