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Upcoming Queer History Audiobooks

I keep an eye out for new queer nonfiction on Libro.fm, and there are so many cool ones coming out soon, so I wanted to share them here. I haven't read any of them, I'm just hyped for their release and want to encourage pre-orders. Some of the links below are affiliate links and the profits go to Making Queer History research.

The Queer Thing About Sin

by Harry Tanner

September 25, 2025

Queer Enlightenments

Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers

by Anthony Delaney

October 14, 2025

Sick and Dirty

Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

by Michael Koresky

June 3, 2025

Before Gender

Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950

by Eli Erlick

May 27, 2025

Hick

The trailblazing journalist who captured Eleanor Roosevelt's heart

by Sarah Miller

May 27, 2025

In Theory, Darling

Searching for José Esteban Muñoz and the Queer Imagination

by Marcos Gonsalez

May 20, 2025

Gay Berlin

Birthplace of a Modern Identity

by Robert Beachy

May 13, 2025

Trans History

From Ancient Times to Present Day

by Alex L. Combs & Andrew Eakett

May 13, 2025

So Many Stars

An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color

by Caro De Robertis

May 13, 2025

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STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

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So when one of these feminist posts go viral someone will invariably draw it back to capitalism and I don’t know how many times it can be explained but patriarchy is the oldest prejudice, oldest system humanity has. It is older than capitalism, older than fuedalism even. It is so fucking old AND most importantly universal. Nothing unites people more than hating women, nothing has been so common across cultures nothing more culturally ubiquitous.

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I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

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A family of cheetahs sleep with the forest guard every night. When the Forest Dept. heard about it, they decided to check the veracity of the claim by installing a CCTV camera. This is what the camera recorded! Just amazing.

Kitties will be kitties 🐈‍⬛

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Hey, Versobooks have made the above ebooks free to download

These resources challenge zionist ideology and offer a clear history of the occupation, Israel's military industrial complex, and the BDS movement. (X)

Download here because some of you can use some reading tbh

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tbh, a huge majority of “anti-vegan” talking points are just trying to argue that it’s impossible to avoid harm (see: such hits as “plants feel pain” “what about agricultural workers” “animals get killed harvesting crops”) with an underlying argument that if they can prove it’s impossible to avoid cruelty, then that means that any attempts to avoid harm are somehow worse than just nihilistic acceptance of “the way things are.”

It’s like the 4chan/South Park/nu-atheism/reddit ideology that the worst thing you can do is care about something, expressions of compassion deserve to be mocked, and that the truly Intelligent and Rational™ are desensitized and can laugh at pain.

I feel like I’ve seen that same underlying argument over and over forever remixed in very slightly different ways (even beyond the conversations on veganism)– the idea that it’s hypocritical and therefore immoral to care. Always the point is that no one should try to change anything. You can acknowledge what’s happening but if you experience emotion about it and advocate for doing something to change things, then you’re worthy of contempt.

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more stuff about becoming a god being inherently dehumanizing pls

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Demons and monsters that torture people because they feed on human suffering are so dumb. People are suffering everywhere my guy go literally any place and take a deep whiff.

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i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat

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People really need to realise that “media can affect real life” doesn’t mean “this character does bad things so people will read that and start doing bad things” and actually means “ideas in fiction especially stereotypes about minority groups can affect how the reader views those groups, an authors implicit prejudices can be passed on to readers”

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There's a version of the "don't go grocery shopping while hungry" rule specifically for writers where you should never under any circumstances be allowed to touch your draft within 3 hours of reading a really good story. Because sometimes when you read something great your head goes "fuck this is so much better than my stuff I should make that more like THIS instead!" Look at me. That's the devil talking and you should close the document NOW.

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books on, about, and made by palestinians. non-fiction books about palestine, palestinian poetry, history books, fiction books by palestinian authors, links to free e-books and poems. i apologize in advance for not breaking this down by genre / type.

LINKS & RESOURCES:

Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

Free Palestine! A Reading List

Books for a Free Palestine

Google Drive of Palestinian Poetry made by @firstfullmoon

Palestinian poems series by @fiercynn

40 books to understand Palestine

FICTION:

Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa

Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

The Things We See in the Light by Amal Awad

A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

Secrets Under the Olive Tree by Nevien Shaabneh

Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat

The Beauty of Your Face by Sahar Mustafah

Mother Country by Etaf Rum

The Sea Cloak and other stories by Nayrouz Qarmout

The Parisian by Isabella Hammad

My First and Only Love by Sahar Khalifeh

Velvet by Huzama Habayeb

Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis

NON - FICTION:

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

On Palestine By Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Frank Barat

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim (Editor), Jennifer Bing (Editor), Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editor)

Except for Palestine The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky

Where the Line Is Drawn by Raja Shehadeh

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction [edited] by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

From the River to the Sea [edited] by Sai Englert, Michal Schatz and Rosie Warren

Palestine Speaks [edited] by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek

The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy

The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti

Shell Houses by Rasha Abdulhadi

Born Palestinian, Born Black by Suheir Hammad

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat

Orientalism by Edward W. Said

Gaza Writes Back by Refaat Alareer

Rifqa by Mohammed El-Kurd

Ever Since I Did Not Die by Ramy Al-Asheq

The Butterfly's Burden by Mahmoud Darwish