{"title": "Gay Girl Prayers", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL2903266A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "key": "/works/OL45587943W", "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "identifiers": {"librarything": ["31538148"]}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "**A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.**\r\n\r\nThe extreme level of sass in Emily Austin's ***Gay Girl Prayers*** does not mean that this collection is irreverent. On the contrary, in rewriting Bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities, Austin invites readers into a giddy celebration of difference and a tender appreciation for the lives and perspectives of \"strange women.\"\r\n\r\nPacked with zingy one liners, sexual innuendo, self-respect, U-Hauling, and painfully earnest declarations of love, this is gayness at its best, harnessed to a higher purpose and ready to fight the powers that be."}, "subjects": ["Poetry", "Queer", "LGBT", "Lesbian", "Nonfiction", "Religion", "Feminism", "Gay", "Adult", "Contemporary", "LGBTQIA+", "LGBTQ+"], "latest_revision": 2, "revision": 2, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-06-05T23:18:45.103490"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-06-05T23:22:29.802334"}}