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Never read Baldwin before?
Nonfiction
The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)
The Fire Next Time (pdf download)
Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)
Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)
The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)
Fiction
Giovanni's Room (pdf download)
If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)
BONUS
Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)
Another Country (pdf and epub download)
Sonny's Blues (pdf download)
Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)
My next Black History Month request:
Pick one of James Baldwin's works and read it!!! The Fire Next Time is an excellent essay, most of us are familiar with the quote on gay white people from The Last Interview but not the rest of it. If Beale Street Could Talk even has a movie!
my love is an octopus's arm: has it's own mind, curls around too tight and too loose in intervals not even i can predict, there would be marks left
Domesticated Woman by Marianna Rothen
“I was carving my name into your side and you were calling me soft, calling me gentle. I do not think you were paying attention.”
— Trista Mateer, from “For the One Who Loved My Hands More than Anything Else,” The Dogs I Have Kissed
Masterlist — Women Authors of Erotica, Taboo & Diaries. (Chronological)
A bibliography/list foregrounding women who wrote erotic, transgressive, or otherwise taboo literature — as well as passionate memoirs, diaries, and autobiographies akin to Casanova. Organized by earliest notable erotic/taboo/passionate publication (or life dates for poets), with tags and links for further reading. Some don't have links, i might add them later on once my research concludes. The list is still ongoing, further adds are more than welcomed.
Scope notes: Includes poetry, fiction, memoir, diaries, and autobiographies centering erotic desire, passionate love, scandalous relationships, queer desire, and socially taboo sexual themes.
Each entry lists: Name (life dates) — Country/Language — Key work(s) (year) — Tags — Link.
Antiquity
Sappho (c. 630–570 BCE) — Greece/Greek — Lyric fragments — poetry, sapphic/lesbian desire.
Renaissance & Early Modern
Veronica Franco (1546–1591) — Italy/Italian — Terze rime; erotic capitoli (c. 1575–1576) poetry, courtesan, libertine, passionate autobiography in verse.
Ninon de l’Enclos (1620–1705) — France/French — Lettres & writings on love (late 1600s) — libertine, salons, epistolary memoirs.
Hortense Mancini (1646–1699) — Italy→ France/French — Mémoires (1675; with Marie Mancini) — scandalous memoir, libertine.
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) — England/English. Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684–1687) — erotic epistolary, incest taboo, passionate intrigue.
18th–19th Century
Teresa Filosofia (pseud., 18th c.) — Italy/Italian — Apologia della Donna Libera (1748). libertine manifesto, proto-feminist.
George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin) (1804–1876) — France/French — Indiana (1832); Elle et Lui (1859) — passionate love, autobiographical elements.
Belle Époque & Early 20th Century
Colette (1873–1954) — France/French — Claudine series (1900–1903); Chéri (1920) — lesbian desire, scandal, passionate autobiographical
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Renée Vivien (1877–1909) — UK→ France/French — Une femme m’apparut (1904); sapphic poetry (1901–1909) — poetry, lesbian/Sapphic.
Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972) — USA→ France/French — Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (1900) — poetry, lesbian salons, autobiographical fragments.
Mid-20th Century
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) — France/USA/English — Delta of Venus (written 1940s, pub. 1977); Henry & June (memoir, pub. 1986) — erotic short stories, autobiographical journals.
Pauline Réage (Dominique Aury) (1907–1998) — France/French — Histoire d’O (Story of O, 1954) — BDSM, masochism, classic erotica.
Catherine Robbe-Grillet (as Jeanne de Berg) (born 1930) — France/French — L’Image (1956) — BDSM, erotic novel.
Emmanuelle Arsan (Marayat Rollet-Andriane) (1932–2005) — Thailand→France/French — Emmanuelle (1959) — hedonism, libertine erotica.
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) — France/French — L’Amant (The Lover, 1984) — erotic/auto-fiction, taboo age-gap, memoir-like.
Erica Jong (born 1942) — USA/English — Fear of Flying (1973) — feminist erotica, confessional memoiristic tone.
Late 20th Century (1980s–1990s)
Alina Reyes (born 1956) — France/French — Le Boucher (The Butcher, 1988) — transgressive erotica.
Mary Gaitskill (born 1954) — USA/English — Bad Behavior (1988; includes “Secretary”) BDSM/DS dynamics, edgy realism, autobiographical undertones.
Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946) — Austria/German — Lust (1989) — violent/explicit, anti-porn polemic novel.
Almudena Grandes (1960–2021) — Spain/Spanish — Las edades de Lulú (1989) — explicit erotica, BDSM.
Virginie Despentes (born 1969) — France/French — Baise-moi (1993) — sex & violence, punk-feminist.
Vanessa Duriès (1972–1993) — France/French — Le Lien (1993) — BDSM memoir/novel.
Catherine Millet (born 1948) — France/French — La vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (2001) — sexual memoir, confessional style.
Zane (Kristina Laferne Roberts) (born 1966) — USA/English — Addicted (1998) — urban erotica, autobiographical resonance.
21st Century (2000s–2020s)
Charlotte Roche (born 1978) — Germany/German — Feuchtgebiete (Wetlands, 2008) — bodily taboos, shock erotica, memoir-like.
Hitomi Kanehara (born 1983) — Japan/Japanese — Hebi ni piasu (Snakes and Earrings, 2003) — body mods, raw sexuality.
Mari Akasaka (born 1964) — Japan/Japanese — Vibrator (1999) — explicit female desire, introspective.
Amy Yamada (born 1959) — Japan/Japanese — Bedtime Eyes (1985) — interracial desire, erotic realism.
Wei Hui (born 1973) — China/Chinese — Shanghai Baby (1999) — explicit sex & censorship.
Mian Mian (born 1970) — China/Chinese — Candy (1999) — sex, drugs, censorship.
Hilda Hilst (1930–2004) — Brazil/Portuguese — O caderno rosa de Lori Lamby (1990); Cartas de um sedutor (1991) — pornographic experiments, confessional satire.
E. L. James (Erika Leonard) (born 1963) — UK/English — Fifty Shades of Grey (2011) — mainstream BDSM erotica.
Diaries, Memoirs & Confessional Works (Casanova-like)
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) — France/USA/English — Diaries 1931–1974 — erotic journals, passionate relationships, introspection.
Hortense Mancini (1646–1699) — Italy→France/French — Mémoires — detailed diary-like accounts of love affairs, scandal, and personal freedom.
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987) — Belgium/France/French — Journal (1939–1987) — intimate reflections, relationships, love.
Chris Kraus (born 1955) — USA/English — I Love Dick (1997) — confessional autofiction, obsession and sexual desire.
Annie Ernaux (born 1940) — France/French — Passion simple (1991); Se perdre (2001) — autobiographical reflections on obsessive love.
Valérie Tasso (born 1973) — Spain/France — Diary of a Nymphomaniac (2003) — confessional memoir, erotic exploration.
Lidia Yuknavitch (born 1963) — USA/English — The Chronology of Water (2011) — memoir blending sex, trauma, passion.
Sarah Waters (born 1966) — UK/English — diaries and autobiographical essays (collected) — queer desire, erotic historical settings.
Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969) — USA/English — All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation (2025) — passionate love, loss, and recovery.
Patricia Lockwood (born 1982) — USA/English — Will There Ever Be Another You (2025) — illness, identity, and recovery.
Untranslated in english.
Elvira Mancuso (1867–1958) — Italy/Italian — Annuzza la maestrina (1906) — Semi-autobiographical, early feminist, largely untranslated.
Marie-Madeleine Bonafon (1716–1770) — France/French — Tanastés (1745) — Allegorical, scandalous, rarely studied.
Dora Rosetti (1908–1989) — Greece/Greek — Her Lover (1929) — Sexuality, desire; very obscure.
Cassandra Rios (1932–2002) — Brazil/Portuguese — A volúpia do pecado and 40+ novels — Lesbian erotica, censored, little known outside Lusophone readers.
Antonella Cilento — Italy/Italian — Lisario o el placer infinito de las mujeres — Erotic historical novel; finalist for Premio Strega, minimal translation.
Eva Baltasar — Spain/Catalan — Permafrost — Intense, lesbian erotic fiction, not widely translated.
Lara Herrero — Spain/Spanish — Comisuras — Erotic poetry by a sexologist, self-published and under the radar.
Luna Miguel — Spain/Spanish — El arrecife de las sirenas — Feminist erotic poetry on motherhood and desire; limited translations.
Cassandra Eltit, Marosa Di Giorgio, Diamela Eltit, Margo Glantz, Ana Clavel, Laura Restrepo, Loreina Santos Silva — Latin American experimental writers whose sensual themes remain under-recognized internationally.
Rarely Translated Authors
Henriette Clarisse Vigée (18th c.) – Autobiographical fragments.
Élisa Lemonnier (1805–1865) – Diaries, with personal reflections rarely studied.
Suzanne Necker (1737–1794) – Passionate letters and memoirs, overshadowed by her husband’s fame.
Madame de Caylus (1673–1729) – Memoirs of intimate court life.
Ulrike von Kleist (1774–1849) – Sister of Heinrich von Kleist, author of unpublished personal writings.
Anonymous libertine manuscripts by women (often destroyed or unpublished in the 18th c.) e.g. Les Confessions d’une Dame de Qualité.
Lesser-Known
Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805) – Letters and novels exploring desire and independence.
Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670–1716) – Fairy tales with veiled eroticism.
Julie de Lespinasse (1732–1776) – Intimate letters of passion and melancholy.
Marquise de La Tour du Pin (1770–1853) – Memoirs, candid about her intimate life.
Louise Colet (1810–1876) – Poet and lover of Flaubert, her writings and letters reveal intense passion.
Delphine de Girardin (1804–1855) – Romantic writer of intimate letters and novels.
Africa
Ken Bugul (Marietou Biléoma Mbaye) — Senegal/French — Le Baobab fou (1983) — Autobiographical, bold focus on the body and sensual awareness.
Balaraba Ramat Yakubu — Nigeria/Hausa — Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home — First novel by a woman in Hausa translated into English; romantic littattafan soyayya.
Anthology: Erotic Africa: The Sex Anthology — Various African authors — Fiction, poetry, and nonfiction exploring sex and romance across Kenyan, Nigerian, Ugandan, South African perspectives.
Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt, 1931–2021) – Memoirs and novels with fearless explorations of love, sexuality, and women’s desire.
Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana, 1942–2023) – Changes, portraying complex modern love.
Middle East
Salwa Al Neimi — Syria/Arabic (translated Al/Fr) — The Proof of the Honey (2007) — Novel with liberal treatment of female sexuality, drawing on Arabic erotic traditions; banned in Syria but translated.
Colette Khoury — Syria/Arabic — Ayyām maʻah (1961) and other works — Love and erotica, subjects previously taboo in Syrian literature.
Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebanon, b. 1945) – Novels openly about female passion.
Forugh Farrokhzad (Iran, 1934–1967) – Poet of eroticism, longing, and female freedom.
Adonis (Syria, b. 1930) – Erotic mystical poetry.
Asia
Apple and Knife by Intan Paramaditha — Indonesia — Short stories blending horror and erotic inversion of the female body.
Izumi Shikibu (Japan, 10th–11th c.) – Love diaries and poetry of passion.
Sei Shōnagon (Japan, 10th–11th c.) – The Pillow Book, sensuous court life.
Qiu Jin (China, 1875–1907) – Revolutionary, poet, and diarist blending eroticism and political passion.
Mirabai (India, 16th c.) – Passionate devotional love poetry.
Murasaki Shikibu (Japan, 11th c.) – The Tale of Genji, full of intimate depictions of desire.
Mah Laqa Bai (India, 1768–1824) – Courtesan-poet, author of erotic Urdu ghazals.
coldness and cruelty by deleuze is such a comfort reading
georges bataille, the tears of eros
you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .
Holy fuck
from 'bird by bird: some instructions on writing and life,' anne lamott, pub. 1994.
Never read Baldwin before?
Nonfiction
The Price of The Ticket (borrow from IA)
The Fire Next Time (pdf download)
Notes of A Native Son (pdf download)
Nothing Personal (read on IA - not great quality sorry)
The Last Interview (pdf download) (only 10 pages!)
Fiction
Giovanni's Room (pdf download)
If Beale Street Could Talk (pdf download)
BONUS
Little Man Little Man (read or pdf download on scribd) (Baldwin's only children's book)
Go Tell It On The Mountain (pdf download)
Another Country (pdf and epub download)
Sonny's Blues (pdf download)
Going to Meet the Man (pdf download)
Switching between these every day
Do you have a light?
The bigger one shifts her eyes like a grizzly bear guarding her young. She squeezes the other girl’s hand.
Do you know where you are, honey?
Yes. I’m at a dyke bar.
You here with friends?
Not tonight. Why?
The skinny one shakes her head and laughs.
It’s just—no offense, but you look like a fag hag. Like a straight girl who comes to these places with her gay guy friends, and expects the butches to just fall all over her. Or like a bisexual. Sorry. You don’t look like a real lesbian.
She wasn’t entirely wrong. My queer identity is, to an extent, based on my intimate friendships with gay men and my affinity for aspects of their specific culture. I went to my senior prom with an entourage of theater fags, and we styled my hair and makeup to look like some grotesque combination of Mae West and Joan Crawford, complete with fake lashes and lips painted in a huge red bow. I wiggled around in a lacy vintage dress that barely contained my curves. When I look at photos from that night, I realize that the campy display is one way I perform my gender. I’m a hag, and I’m a femme. Both of these names are important to me. Unfortunately, people seem to believe and understand only the first one.
from “Confessions of a Fag Hag Femme” by Sasha Elise Cohen
published in Visible: A Femmethology, Volume 2, ed. Jennifer Clare Burke (2009)
I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...
I think the white, binary assumption that sexuality or gender can never be fluid has been very damaging to out queer unity. The obsession with egg cracking rather than informed choice is white and predatory, just as the white queer obsession with witnessing coming out has always been entirely unhelpful.
Went on a date with a trans guy once where he said "I know I'm a man but also I genuinely love newfound male privilege, I'm safer."
And as an agender woman, you best believe I'm gonna use male assuming appearance to make jobs less of a fucking headache. I know straight men who use to be gay and trans men who used to be lesbian.
I bounce between demisexuality and bisexuality. Agender and bigender in my own head and I say. The difference is my own to fucking sort through.
What if. Hear me out. We informed discretion instead of queer individualism. What if. We embraced unity and celebration of difference.
My final words on the matter is that you don't have to come out if you're not safe. You're also not required to if you are.
Every individual's queer truth is their own.
Oh!
The idea of the plunge or the blue pill is more akin to baptism than it is to acceptance and celebration of a new safe individual.
It has more to do with abandoning "the world before" for the immediate "new enlightenment" than it has to do with being your authentic, individual, wonky and flawed, human queer self. It's a false perfection ritual. It's born again shit. I would know. I was baptized twice. It wasn't enough. I still think Jesus and Judas were gay.
The concept of an elder that slaps your chest and sends you hurdling into a new world is just what it sounds like. Fictional. And the end result is isolationist thinking and not open mindedness.
Someone who needs guidance on a shared individual attribute should be not be shepherded or herded to their truth, their differences should be celebrated, their trepidations validated and their fear, yes their fear should be normalized and understood.
Those who recloset or detransition are not subhuman or detractors if they do not act so. The idea that one queer person might change their mind about themselves should be considered. No woman is monolithic with her peers. Certainly no third gender, abstract gender, agender, intersex person or man. (Queer or not.)
And, I cannot stress this enough, anyone who holds the truth of a queer individual as a weapon in hegemony rather than a brand new unique gift to humanity is not to be trusted.
And I'm not talking about the conversations on class traitorism, real or false.
I straight up believe you're not allowed to tell an individual what their orientation is or isn't when they have told you clear as day. You're not allowed to tell bicurious people what they are, nor can you take pride in the transition of the gender curious. What if they change?
You must simply welcome them for who the fuck they tell you they are.
"You might be gay." And "you are gay and only I can decide this for you" are just different sentences.
Forcefem is a kink for consenting partners. Any movement that fails to consider this is just. A. Cult.
And this is no diss to people with concrete binary gender or who are monosexual and certain. This is just saying your peers SHOULD should be safe to change their mind and you will find that people don't even always change their label like a Facebook status when they do.
Gay trans women who like men only. Still call themselves gay. Everywhere but online due to harassment, basically. Straight trans women exist too. This is not what I am discussing tho.
I digress. This post centers on what people initially come out as for a reason. (Because that is what I am discussing)
Least of all because I am the transient genderqueer person I describe. Least of all.
There are children who need to hear this. For goodness and future sake.
2026
FUCK HARD
FUCK FAST
FUCK BADLY
NEVER USE GENERATIVE AI
CREATE JOY
MUSIC ALWAYS
PSPSPSPS AT KITTIES ON THE STREET
YUMMY SOUP
go see the doctor about that thing
BE TRANSGENDER
KISS YOUR FRIENDS
EAT CHEESE
NEVER KILL YOURSELF
THRIVE
2026
FUCK HARD
FUCK FAST
FUCK BADLY
NEVER USE GENERATIVE AI
CREATE JOY
MUSIC ALWAYS
PSPSPSPS AT KITTIES ON THE STREET
YUMMY SOUP
go see the doctor about that thing
BE TRANSGENDER
KISS YOUR FRIENDS
EAT CHEESE
NEVER KILL YOURSELF
THRIVE