Lesbian Book Club

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back for Part Two of our conversation about The Color Purple (2023). This week’s episode is all about the highs and lows. Joy, sisterhood, and the phenomenal music and dancing are some of the most important components of the film, showing off black love, joy and desire. We get into the relationship between Celie and Shug Avery. Necessarily, we speak on the venom of racism...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Black History Month and the opportunity to celebrate Black History, Heritage and Culture with a conversation about famed The Color Purple . In this Part One episode, we cover the 2023 film adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel and the context surrounding all of its renditions. This is a story of Black Women - of survival, sisterhood, betrayal, pain,...

Send us Fan Mail Co-authors of The Christmas Pic Rena Sapon-White and Ella Schaefer joined us for this meaningful conversation about making and publishing queer art in a hostile political climate and the impact it can have, breaking rules, and fictional happy endings for queer characters as a resource for real life. They also gave us special insight into the history and development of the birth of...

Send us Fan Mail Come along for a chat about conspiracy theories, character development of a man 😱😜, and Haylie’s recounting of the woman on TikTok who is apparently a rat…E. J. Noyes really hit the second book of the Halycon Divison Series out of the park! *please ignore the text message noises coming out of Lauren’s computer a couple of times as she could not figure out how to fix it! 🫣 *Also...

Send us Fan Mail Hi friends, thanks for joining us. As promised, here is the link to a document with compiled resources to both receive aid and help in the wake of the LA Wildfires. Please help if you are able, and share resources/ways to donate online. Edit to what Haylie said when recognizing the victims of the wildfires: since this was recorded on the 12th, the death count has gone up from 11 t...

Send us Fan Mail You asked us to roll it back so Haylie could dish on Evelyn Hugo, and we did! Do you agree with her hot take? Do we have more Celia or Evelyn sympathizers in our midst? Drop your input in the episode comments, our Instagram, or wherever you want. Evelyn would.  In this episode, we try to wrap our heads around the big topics of identity and regret - things that plagued Evelyn’s lif...

Send us Fan Mail This book by Rena Sapon-White and Ella Schaefer gave us all the cozy Hallmark Christmas feels, so you might want a peppermint mocha for this one. In this episode, we talk public perception of high-profile people vs. the individual identity, failures in communication, and what makes a good character worth rooting for (“likable” or not!).  Thank you for being in community with us th...

Send us Fan Mail Crawling out of our skin after watching a really unfortunate attempt at a Dana x Jenny hookup, Haylie and Lauren dish about the clandestine affairs of this episode, run our own hypotheticals, and weigh the ethics of Bette's choice to hand over the explicit film to expose Fae Buckley.  Please leave us a review and download, it really helps us out! We love hearing from you, rea...

Send us Fan Mail Well... Jen Lyon has done it again. In this episode we walk through the newest novel by Senator's Wife author Jen and talk about the characters Kam and Dillon who we have fallen so in love with. Listen in to hear us name our ideal film cast and sob over the tragic ending that broke our hearts.  TW: suicide, suicidal ideation, SA. Take care of yourselves! Please leave us a rev...

Send us Fan Mail After seeing a clip of  Wicked  star Ariana Grande saying her favorite film is Jamie Babbit's But I'm A Cheerleader  and being confused by the excitement of lesbians everywhere, Haylie knew it was time to see what the fuss was for herself. Lauren gleefully obliged, and here you have the conversation that followed. We were thrilled by the abundance of camp, shocked at how...

Send us Fan Mail Technical difficulties galore but Haylie came through as the reliable Taurus she is when Lauren ran into more mercury retrograde than she could handle this week. Anyway, please enjoy this Lauren's disappointment that Haylie didn't know who Rosanna Arquette and Haylie's beautiful nuanced conversation about Bette and Tina's storyline. To get in touch with us, sen...

Send us Fan Mail In the wake of the United States election, we want to use this episode as a space to have conversation with you and each other. Lauren processes her fear and anger, while Haylie gets vulnerable about the betrayal she and many others are feeling. On the other side of the coin, on Haylie's mind has also been community, mutual aid and joy, which she brings to the discussion toda...

Send us Fan Mail It’s Election Day in the United States, and as we await results with bated breath we invite you to listen to our timely conversation with Margaret Vandenburg, author of Craze. We hear from her about Henri’s story and how the centennial of the Queer Craze and crackdown inspired her to write this cautionary tale. She speaks to us about being willing and ready to stand up for ourselv...

Send us Fan Mail Truly, we cannot emphasize enough how stunning this book by Margaret Vandenburg is. This episode, we talk the Queer Craze of the American 1920s in NYC, underground speakeasies, and the balancing act of queer people walking between heteronormative day life and queer culture. We discuss how growing up with shame impacts the development of queer adults, and delicate family dynamics....

Send us Fan Mail This week, our hosts have an allergic reaction to new character Annette, who makes Haylie like Jenny in comparison. Dana's apparently closeted mother rejects her when she comes out, Bette and Tina face harsh truths, and Haylie gives a lesson on hygiene and shame. Let's go! Please download, share, and leave us a review! Read CRAZE by Margaret Vandenburg for our next episo...

Send us Fan Mail Our next book is CRAZE by Margaret Vandenburg, and as Haylie was reading she couldn't help but look up the many characters who are REAL historical figures. So, this episode is full of information on these queer icons of the 1920s and 30s, so that you can have an enriched reading experience! Let's get CRAZy! Please download, share, and leave us a review! You can text us a...

Send us Fan Mail *TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT* Welcome back to the Lesbian Book Club Podcast for another L Word episode, where we discuss women's health issues that we weren't taught in health class, i.e. vaginal suppositories! We get a very special visit from a real live circus mouse, Dana ruins her life for Subaru only to find that they liked her life how it was, and we become t...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the pod, we have the first book in the Halycon Division series, Integrity by E.J. Noyes. This is a sapphic thriller filled with chemical weapons attacks, secret agents (or not technically agents, you be the judge), and romance! Join us as we talk all things intelligence agents, and not just what we learned from Miss Congeniality 😝 Please download, share and leave us...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the pod we are covering the very funny, very camp movie Bottoms! Join us for our mostly unserious discussion of this film starring the incredible Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennott. Also, get reading because our next book is the first book in the Halcyon Division series, Integrity by E.J. Noyes Trigger Warnings: discussions of rape, sexual assault, and the gay panic defen...

Send us Fan Mail Coming at you with a mini episode this week! If there's one thing Lauren loves other than yapping about books, it's yapping about movies and shows. So if you've been looking for some streaming recs, she has you covered. Also, please someone talk to her about Gentleman Jack! Please download, share and leave us a review! We want your feedback! You can text us at the l...

Send us Fan Mail We hope you are as obsessed with this book as Haylie is, because she wants companionship embarking on the painful journey of waiting for Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner (they/them) to become a series. Listen in as we talk about egregious miscommunications, smut, and the extremely Taurus way of keeping your living space as a temple - just like Grace Henderson. Also, if you've been...

Send us Fan Mail Do you love the group storylines, or the individual Jenny "off on her own, doing shrooms" storyline? Is Tim aggressive or aggressive? Has Lauren finally taken off her rose-colored glasses and decided Bette is actually the villain? I mean Bette did drink the slurpee... Please download and share, and leave us a five star review or text us with the link above. It really hel...

Send us Fan Mail If Haylie is Dana for Halloween, who should Lauren be? Is Bette actually... the worst? Is Subaru really for the gays, what is Shane's mysterious past, and how should Jenny have handled getting caught cheating? We address all of these very important questions in this episode covering the L Word.  Please download and share, and leave us a five star review or text us with the li...

Send us Fan Mail *TRIGGER WARNING* - This book contains subject material of sexual violence, rape, homophobia, transphobia, gender dysphoria, and police violence. Please take care of yourselves and make a decision that is healthy for you before listening to this episode. In this episode, we discuss the life-changing Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. Jess's story of not fitting into the ge...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode was quite a doozy 🙃 If you want to hear about the one lesbian movie Lauren will never watch again, this episode is for you! Haylie on the other hand loved it and with very good reason! A24, what are you all smoking in that writer's room! Kristen Stewart, you are so loved! Please download and leave us a five star review, or text us with the link above...