Nonprofit press bringing queer women, women of color, and underrepresented voices to the forefront of literature. Since 1982! 🔥🌈
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We’re excited to share that Aunt Lute Books has been awarded a grant from
@CalArtsCouncil! These grants are vital in developing and supporting California's arts, cultural landscape, and creative workforce. Read about the grantees: arts.ca.gov/press-release/in…
Thank you, CAC! #ArtsCA
🧛🏾♀️🩸 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: reactormag.com/horror-highli…
Thank you to CLMP for including 🌀 The Divining Season (Aunt Lute, 2026)
and 🐚 Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe (Aunt Lute, 2001) in your 2025 reading list for #nativeamericanheritagemonth. Read the full list here: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…
❤️🔥 Introducing Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024) by Norma Alarcón. A landmark collection of the work of pioneering Chicana scholar Norma Alarcón. 🗓 Debuting November 7, 2025! Pre-order today: bookshop.org/a/99607/9781951…
ALT Book cover of "Forced By Circumstance" by Norma Alarcón featuring a person with large red butterfly wings against a muted background.
CARAMELLE & CARMILLA by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu has been circling the world this last week. We love seeing Aunt Lute books "in the wild."
Snag your copy today at: bookshop.org/a/104270/978195…
We love seeing Aunt Lute authors out and about, reading and sharing their bold books in the world. Kathya Alexander, author of Keep A'Livin' (Aunt Lute, 2024), had a lot of exciting events this past year. Her debut historical fiction is available at: ow.ly/Jaeb50Xc5bO
❤️🔥🩸CARAMELLE & CARMILLA by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu is out TODAY - just in time for spooky season! Available here: bookshop.org/p/books/caramel…
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Read BABYLAN, edited by Nick Carbó and Eileen R. Tabios, this #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth!
This @auntlute anthology of Filipina and Filipina American writers features poetry and prose by Gina Apostol, Lilledeshan Bose, Shirley Ancheta, and more:
auntlute.com/babaylan
The latest from Jewelle Gomez is out in 4 days! 🩸❤️🔥 Two vampire stories. Two authors. Two striking meditations on dependency and desire. Pre-order Caramelle & Carmilla: ow.ly/EyL650X9X5c
ALT Jewelle Gomez standing outdoors near a modern building with large windows.
Thank you to @clmp for including Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers in your 2025 reading list! Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth everyone. Find your next read: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…
How do you do spooky? 🖤 Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan La Fanu, or Doll Seed by Michele T. Berger? Either way, come get spooky with us! Two books. Infinite chills. Countless meditations on love, otherness, and survival. Read more: auntlute.com/all-titles-publ…
Last Sunday, so many of you gathered WITH US to celebrate Gloria Anzaldúa's literary legacy, support Aunt Lute's mission, and fuel insurgent feminist thought when we need it most. 🔥🔥 Thank you! Cheers to firing up conversations across generations and showing up FOR EACH OTHER.
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October is #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Celebrate with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list—which features @fonograf_ed, @auntlute, @uglyducklingprs, @kayapress, @SundressPub, @triohousepress, @futurepoem, and more indie publishers: clmp.org/news/a-reading-list…
🥳 Doll Seed is one year old TODAY! Listen to author Michele T. Berger share about what stories have resonated MOST with readers. What story from the collection is YOUR favorite? Buy your copy today: ow.ly/Yc9A50X54Y6
Buy a book. Support insurgent, feminist thought! Get reading and buy our books here: auntlute.com/distribution
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#LGBTQ History 5. b. Sept. 26, 1942, Gloria Anzaldúa, Harlingen, TX, feminist writer, poet, scholar of Chicana culture, activist, queer theorist, co-editor of “This Bridge Called My Back: Writing by Radical Women of Color” (1981), “Light in the Dark” (2015). d. 2004
Happy Birthday, Gloria Anzaldúa! We miss you. 💜 This photo was taken at the historic Montreal Women's Book Fair in 1988–just ONE YEAR after Anzaldúa's book, Borderlands: La Frontera was published by Aunt Lute Books. Joan Pinkvoss on the left, Gloria Anzaldúa on the right.
ALT Joan Pinkvoss (left), co-founder of Aunt Lute Books, and Gloria Anzaldua (right), author of Borderlands: La Frontera. From 1988 Montreal Women's Book Fair.
We love a surprise shout-out to @auntlute and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands: La Frontera. Thank you, Brooke Xu at Trill Magazine, for this article highlighting "9 Great Books By Latinx Authors To Read This Latinx Heritage Month." Explore the books: trillmag.com/culture/books/9…
ALT Screenshot of a TR!LL article titled '9 Great Books By Latinx Authors To Read This Latinx Heritage Month' with a colorful illustration of a person surrounded by floating books.
Happy Birthday, Gloria Anzaldúa! We miss you. 💜 This photo was taken at the historic Montreal Women's Book Fair in 1988–just ONE YEAR after Anzaldúa's book, Borderlands: La Frontera was published by Aunt Lute Books. Joan Pinkvoss on the left, Gloria Anzaldúa on the right.
ALT Joan Pinkvoss (left), co-founder of Aunt Lute Books, and Gloria Anzaldua (right), author of Borderlands: La Frontera. From 1988 Montreal Women's Book Fair.
We are so grateful for our sponsors for Wild Tongues Can't Be Tamed, happening Sep. 28. @Sinister_Wisdom is a multicultural, lesbian literary and art journal founded in 1976. 💜 @CLF_says promotes professional and leadership development of Latinas.
ALT Thank you to event sponsors Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal publishing quarterly since 1976.
ALT Thank you message to event sponsors featuring the Chicana Latina Foundation logo and mission statement on a pink gradient background.
❤️🔥 Introducing Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Two vampire stories, two authors, two striking meditations on dependency and desire. 🗓 Debuting October 14, 2025! Pre-order today: ow.ly/VZ4450X0yfo
Cover design by Helen Shewolfe Tseng.
ALT Book cover for 'Caramelle' by Jewelle Gomez and 'Carmilla' by J. Sheridan Le Fanu, featuring two black hands with red dripping paint between them.