#Queer Liberation Library

[queerliblib]

Hi!

For people who were considering donating, and might like some added bonus, for every $10 donated to this campaign, I will write 1000 words of a writing commission for you (details in my own pinned).

fun little incentive for folks who are interested in supporting our fundraiser to help our library keep growing & thriving 🌈 📚 💸

[xiaokuer-schmetterling]

be gay do crimes

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openstax.org--https://openstax.org

professor leonard--math professor with many online courses FREEEEEEE in entirety. and he's really good at it

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refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[mythic-raccoon]

Hey gang!

I’m looking to help the Queer Liberation Library (@queerliblib) raise money for this Pride Month (and maybe longer, depending on how this goes) through commissioned writing.

For every $10 donated to this campaign, I will write 1000 words for you.

Some ground rules:

I will write nothing sexual. I am a minor, for one thing, and for another I’m simply not comfortable with it.

I will not write fanfiction for legal reasons

I do reserve the right to turn down an idea if I feel uncomfortable with it—you are welcome to run an idea by me before committing your money!

I am best and most comfortable with fiction writing, particularly in the fantasy genre.

Some snippets of my work are as follows:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55816372

“Once upon a time, titans walked the earth. Great, looming things they were, animate if not alive, raw power purified in their veins. It was from these titans that life was born, ichor moving from them and sprouting lichen and moss and trees where it flowed and all manners of creatures where it fell. As time moved on, their limbs froze with the plants that sprouted from their bodies until they were consumed, fallen and petrified where they stood. The titans were lost but did not die, for no death could claim those that never lived. And in that undeath, there are hags, born of the titans’ final tears.”

“Yet to be a god, for a god to exist, there is something that can reach for you and bend the world to their will. A jericho rose blooms rarely, sees years of death before it lives again, and a god could make it evergreen. They—it—could make it rain forever so that a flower that only lives for water will die, drown, in it. Or they could reach into the plant itself, forcing the critical hydration it holds in a suspended state to be consumed in the name of a beautiful, dying, thing. To some, the idea of something watching and acting beyond us is a comfort. It warms them, provides a net beneath their feet and a fire at their hearths so that they may know that their path is protected. But a net can break, a flame can be your ruin, and thus so can a god.”

“It begins on an island, one with trees of oak, of birch, of maple and beech. At first glance, there is nothing more than the woods and the cliffs, but if you venture just a bit further, along that winding, rocky path, you may find a lone girl, tending crops, potatoes, and wheat, and carrots. If the time is right there may even be long vines and bushes full of berries. And of course we mustn't forget the eleven hens and two roosters. If you ask why that many, she would say “well I think thirteen is a nice number, wouldn’t you agree?” or perhaps “why would I need any more?” and then continue on. If you choose to stay, you may find yourself discussing the weather, if you are polite, she may even invite you for a meal. The girl was always quiet, even when she rambled for hours, most who’d met her would say that she simply did not know quite how to speak. Never once, in those times, did someone return with a name, and few would ever come to recognize her.

The ocean extended from the island for miles beyond the eye’s reach, and Raine had very good eyes. As frustrating as it may be to never see any other land beyond that on which she could name every grain of sand, Raine did not care to leave her island. The trader came once per week, bought her wares (spare crops, eggs, and the prized berries), sold her what she desired, then left, not a word between them. It was an interaction Raine savored, simple understanding without the mindless yammering that came from the visitors. The cursed blessing of her existence, ever so infuriating yet equally fascinating. The visitors brought stories and thoughts to her land, opinions not her own, and thank goodness for that (the house on the hill had been greatly improved, she wasn’t too proud to say that). Perhaps that is what led her to care, to wish good upon more than her chickens and the trader. Maybe it was what led her to asking the trader’s name (Rel, not a name she’d heard of she told them, but that said little), and perhaps this had led to her leaving the island, and perhaps those visitors are it is customary for a family to have eleven hens and two roosters. Thirteen is a nice number, after all.

We’re getting ahead of ourselves again, that is hardly a story now is it? Let us consider our protagonist, Raine. A girl born and raised on an island that had never been set foot on before her parents arrived. This was odd of course, but hardly extraordinary, innumerable families spend their whole lives on isolated land, never seeing another beyond their village. In fact, the remarkable aspect of it all hardly relates to Raine at all. She was just born on that island after all, how she ended up there was of little consequence. Her parents had sailed there, time enough before she was born that they had a squat, ugly hut established. It leaned heavy to the left, supported by a thick beam, wood warping and collapsing as she grew.”

[novella-november]

Do you have the Libby library app?

If not, download it to your phone, and under "Add library card" select the button to search for a library and start typing in "queer"...

Sign up with an email, no actual address required, and you are good to go 🏳️‍🌈

[ID: A screenshot of the Queer Liberation Library Libby main page, showing 6 titles, one of which is an audio book. The titles displayed are the Trans Teen Survival Guide; Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next); We Will Be Shelter: Poems for Survival; Tomboy Survival Guide; A Burst of Light and Other Essays; and Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction. End ID]

(thank you @teddypoi-qd for the ID!]

EDIT: Here is the Queer Liberation Library's donation page!

[fubblers]

I’ve been reading a lot of books on Queer Liberation Library through Libby and I’m eternally grateful. I just sent $10 to help keep them running. If you have cash to spare, I urge you to match my donation here: https://givebutter.com/J9nhcW

My local library only has so many audiobooks on Libby. But QLL has a vast selection of queer books and audiobooks and it’s completely free.

We’re so lucky to be living in an era where queer art and history is at our fingertips!

[musenextdoor]

Btw if you’re sapphic and love to read you should apply for a free membership on queerliberationlibrary.org to access a ton of queer books on Libby 🤍🤍🤍

[duckprintspress]

AHHHH BOOKS OF OURS HAVE BEEN ADDED TO THE QUEER LIBERATION LIBRARY ( @queerliblib ) I AM SO EXCITED.

If you don't know what the QLL is this is a great chance to find out!! They're an online library of hand-curated queer e-books with really awesome range (non-fiction! fiction! many genres and disciplines!), and they keep growing! Anyone in the US can become a member FOR FREE. From their webpage: Queer Liberation Library (QLL) is fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.

They're also a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, and completely funded by donations (we donate a pittance monthly, I wish we could do more).

I HIGHLY recommend you go to their webpage here to find out more, and you can follow their tumblr (tagged above) too!

And if you didn't know - all our published anthologies to-date are available through multiple library apps, including Libby (if selected by the library) and Hoopla (should be available to all libraries with Hoopla subscriptions). So even if you aren't a member of QLL, you might want to check your local library e-book system to see if you can read our books. Titles potentially available at your library include our anthologies Add Magic to Taste, She Wears the Midnight Crown, He Bears the Cape of Stars, Aim For The Heart: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers" and And Seek (Not) to Alter Me: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," and our stand-alone titles To Drive the Hundred Miles by Alec J. Marsh and Many Drops Make a Stream by Adrian Harley. There's more on the way, too, so be on the lookout.

[queerliblib]

HUGE NEWS! MERCH DROP! There’s still time to get QLL Swag for your pride plans this month, and hey, enjoy them for the rest of the summer too!

We’ve got a black ball cap hat with the QLL logo on it and a navy blue tank top with the words “READ TRANS BOOKS” in our pinkpunk lettering. Both are $24.99 and all proceeds go back to QLL and back into keeping the library running. And, as usual, these are union made in the USA by Worx!

[aroaessidhe]

a few indie aspec books I noticed have been added to queer liberation library recently!

[thebibliosphere]

Tw: scrolling motion in video.

(I tried to keep the scrolling slow so it hopefully doesn’t make anyone dizzy)

ID: a video scrolling through the @queerliblib library front page displaying numerous queer titles and audiobooks.

Y’all, @queerliblib just went live and their collection is already incredible.

There are so many queer books there that I couldn’t get my local library to host. Seriously, if you’re in the US, go to their website and get yourself a library card. It integrated perfectly with my libby account and now I’m about to listen to so many books while I work.

Also, not Hunger Pangs being front and center for Disability Pride 😭. Thank you, @queerliblib 💖. And thank you for creating such a wonderful project. This is going to make such a difference for so many people.

[earlronove]

Hey! Guess who finally was able to get Errant Wings and Wherever the Stars Call in the Queer Liberation Library? Me!

Which means, you can totally check them out if you've got a free digital library card through QLL! Wherever the Stars Call is already checked out (but you can put it on hold!), but Errant Wings is totally available as of me writing this post!

If you don't have a free digital library card through QLL or haven't even heard of them, well you're in for a surprise! Digital library full of queer books! Can't go wrong with that! You should go and click below to get your library card!

[nerdykeppie]

Now that we've had time to do math: we ended the month at $49.4K gross, and 1% of our net profits - once we pay for manufacturing, payroll, travel and booth costs for Seattle Pride, taxes, and so on - comes out to just under $188.

Since $198 is 11 x chai, we decided to go with that. :)

Did we hit our goal? No. Did we have our best Pride Month to date? Yes. Do we really believe in what @queerliblib does? Yeah. We do.

There's new stuff coming from us soon - new dresses, new patterns (did someone say pawprints? Crows?), new pins and keychains - but that can wait for another post. :)

For now, come see us next weekend at Pride Northwest in Portland! We're hoping our skirt & shirt restock comes in, but we will definitely have some skirts and shirts in stock and sample skirts to try on so you can know your NerdyKeppie Dress & Skirt Size for sure.

We'll be right by the entrance off of Harvey Milk. :)

Thanks again to the folx at the Queer Liberation Library for everything they do!

[gareteddybear]

Happy Banned Books Week!!

Remember to sign up for these libraries!! I know there are more Books Unbanned libraries!!

Seattle Public Library Books Unbanned:

Boston Public Library Books Unbanned:

Queer Liberation Library:

[sexahliaderolo]

Oh my fucking God, I've been on the waitlist for a book for 23 weeks and suddenly got the notification that @queerliblib got 66 new copies and I can finally read it!!

God bless u @queerliblib 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[rabbitstitch]

My fifth book of the year is The Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo, courtesy of the Queer Liberation Library! (Go support them!) I'm really glad I had the right shades of peachy-pink for this; the cover is so gorgeous 😍

My rating is for The Empress of Salt and Fortune is ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐! I listened to the audibook read by Cindy Kay and it's well worth it. There's something powerful to listening to a story that is, in the text itself, being told to another. Its only two hours, and the narrator is wonderful. I've already got another book in the series ready to go!

[i-bite-out-of-love]

Queer Liberation Library my most beloved 💖 💓 💕