Aunt Lute

Aunt Lute Intersectional, feminist press centering q***r women and women of color. Since 1982!

Calling all our radical readers! This holiday season, gift the audiobook that rocks and inspires. With great honesty, th...
12/18/2025

Calling all our radical readers! This holiday season, gift the audiobook that rocks and inspires. With great honesty, the author Ginny Berson offers her take on what those times were like, revisiting the excitement and the hardships of creating a fair and equitable le***an-feminist business model—one that had no precedent.

🎁Order the audiobook of Olivia On the Record for special access to recordings by Cris Williamson, Meg Christian, Linda Tillery, Teresa Trull, Mary Watkins, and more. Available here: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781939904492-olivia-on-the-record?srsltid=AfmBOor5YeRWdL184pB3__NExdP0ymJpeDpL9slMZ1DaMeVM4j4rWUdF

💐 Introducing The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice. The town of Larissa, Texas, has secrets. Native girls are going...
12/16/2025

💐 Introducing The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice. The town of Larissa, Texas, has secrets. Native girls are going missing, decades-old conflicts are hiding just below the surface, and Emily Howard is speaking to her ancestors. 🔥

🗓 Debuting March 31, 2026! Pre-order your copy today: https://www.auntlute.com/the-divining-season

🥰 We're so grateful to the volunteers who help the authors and stories of Aunt Book shine. We'll be giving folks shout-o...
12/15/2025

🥰 We're so grateful to the volunteers who help the authors and stories of Aunt Book shine. We'll be giving folks shout-outs over the coming months. First up: Thank you, Josie, for ALL your HARD WORK amplifying Caramelle & Carmilla and Forced By Circumstance this season! We appreciate you!

⭐️ More about Josie: Josie Garza Medina (he/him/she/her) is a graduate student in the Master of Science in Sociology program at Texas A&M University - Kingsville. He also holds a Master of Arts in Cultural Studies from the same institution. Her Master of Arts thesis focused on gender issues in cyberpunk media and video games, and her Master of Science thesis research examines gender-affirming surgeries in Weimar-era Berlin.

His most recent publication is "The Use of the 'Flicker Film' as an Expression of Bipolar Disorder in the Experimental Films of Paul Sharits" in CCTE Studies, no. 90, and his most recent conference presentation was “Things We Lost in the Fires: Imagining Post-Human Cyberpunk Eco-Dystopias in Citizen Sleeper and Stray” at the virtual 12th International Digital Storytelling Conference. She was also a founding member of Texas A&M University-Kingsville's student literary journal, The Javelina Express, and currently serves as one of the poetry editors for the journal. When not traveling for academic conferences and trainings, he enjoys spending time with his cat, Shayla, and his dog, Puppy.

Congratulations, Michele Tracy Berger. Her debut book, Doll Seed, was shortlisted for the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Awa...
12/12/2025

Congratulations, Michele Tracy
Berger. Her debut book, Doll Seed, was shortlisted for the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award, a prestigious North Carolina state award.
 
Congratulations to Michele and the other nominees!
 
Learn more about Doll Seed in our bio.
 
 

Calling all our radical readers! This holiday season, gift the audiobook that rocks and inspires. 🎁 Order the audiobook ...
12/11/2025

Calling all our radical readers! This holiday season, gift the audiobook that rocks and inspires. 🎁 Order the audiobook of Olivia On the Record for special access to recordings by Cris Williamson, Meg Christian, Linda Tillery, Teresa Trull, Mary Watkins, and more!

💝💝 Order today and make a friend's day! Link in bio.

We’re excited to share that Aunt Lute Books has been awarded a grant from the California Arts Council. A total of 679 aw...
11/24/2025

We’re excited to share that Aunt Lute Books has been awarded a grant from the California Arts Council. A total of 679 awards for nonprofit organizations and units of government throughout California will be disbursed across seven different programs. Together, these grants are vital in developing and supporting California's arts, cultural landscape, and creative workforce.

Read more about the grantees here: https://arts.ca.gov/press-release/introducing-californias-2025-state-arts-grantees/

Thank you, CAC!

🩸What does Caramelle & Carmilla ask us while reading? Swipe for some insight -->If you have some thoughts, comment below...
11/21/2025

🩸What does Caramelle & Carmilla ask us while reading? Swipe for some insight -->

If you have some thoughts, comment below! We'd love to hear what you think ✨

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✨✨ SURPRISE ✨✨We have picked THREE of our followers to be giveaway winners for a copy of Caramelle & Carmilla! We will b...
11/20/2025

✨✨ SURPRISE ✨✨

We have picked THREE of our followers to be giveaway winners for a copy of Caramelle & Carmilla! We will be sending you a DM shortly if you've won, so keep an eye on your inbox 📩

Thank you to everyone who has participated, we look forward to holding another one soon!

🧛🏾‍♀️🩸 Dragons, Cults, and Vampires–sign us up! To read about them, of course. Thank you Emily C. Hughes, for giving Car...
11/18/2025

🧛🏾‍♀️🩸 Dragons, Cults, and Vampires–sign us up! To read about them, of course. Thank you Emily C. Hughes, for giving Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu a shoutout in your "Horror Highlights" article for Reactor Mag. Find your next read: https://reactormag.com/horror-highlights-for-october-2025/

11/18/2025

To see the world through their eyes is to notice the places where fear gathers, where desire glows quietly, and where survival becomes its own language.

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Aunt Lute Books was started in 1982 in Iowa City by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss, who believed that neither mainstream publishing nor the feminist movement of that time was promoting the voices of le****ns, especially le****ns and women of color. In 1986, Aunt Lute Books moved to San Francisco to partner with the small le***an press Spinsters Ink, and did business under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute. In 1990, Aunt Lute became a separate nonprofit under the umbrella of the Aunt Lute Foundation, with the intention of creating a culturally diverse collective of staff, interns, and board members to address the lack of presses run by women of color. From 1990 onwards, Aunt Lute has created a place for the voices of women from many different cultures and helped to foster their careers. Many of Aunt Lute’s titles are acknowledged as important contributions to the academic fields of le***an studies and gender studies. Titles such as Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera and Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals have been included in the curricula of hundreds of educational institutions throughout the U.S. and around the world.