I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.
This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.
For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
IRL by Tommy Pico
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Homie: Poems by Danez Smith
The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Companion by E.E. Ottoman
Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun
Witching Moon by Poppy Woods
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto
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🍉 Queer Palestinian Books for Pride Month 🏳️🌈
🍉 Want to add a bit more diversity to your TBR? Consider reading one of these queer books by Palestinian authors for Pride Month!
🏳️🌈 Fiction
🍉 The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher
🍉 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat
🍉 Belladonna - Anbara Salam
🍉 A Map of Home - Randa Jarrar
🍉 Muneera and the Moon -
🍉 Guapa - Saleem Haddad
🍉 The Ordeal of Being Known - Malia Rose
🍉 The Philistine - Leila Marshy
🍉 Hazardous Spirits - Anbara Salam
🍉 From Whole Cloth - Sonia Sulaiman
🏳️🌈 Graphic Novels
🍉 Mis(h)adra - Iasmin Omar Ata
🍉 Where Black Stars Rise - Nadia Shammas & Marie Enger
🍉 Confetti Realms - Nadia Shammas
🍉 Nayra and the Djinn - Iasmin Omar Ata
🍉 My Mama's Magic - Amina Awad
🍉 Squire - Nadia Shammas & Sara Alfageeh
🏳️🌈 Non-Fiction/Memoirs
🍉 Are You This? Or Are You This? - Madian Al Jazerah
🍉 Love is an Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar
🍉 This Arab is Queer - (ed) Elias Jahshan
🍉 Decolonial Queering in Palestine - Walaa Alqaisiya
🍉 Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique - Sa'ed Atshan
🍉 Between Banat - Mejdulene Bernard Shomali
🏳️🌈 Poetry
🍉 To All the Yellow Flowers - Raya Tuffaha
🍉 The Specimen's Apology - George Abraham & Leila Abdelrazaq
🍉 Birthright - George Abraham
🍉 The Twenty-Ninth Year - Hala Alyan
🍉 Blood Orange - Yaffa AS
🍉 Who is Owed Springtime - Rasha Abdulhadi
🍉 Shell Houses - Rasha Abdulhadi
🍉 Halal If You Hear Me - (ed) Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillo
🍉 None of us are free until all of us are free. 🏳️🌈
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Any queer webcomic/graphic novel recommendations?
Yes!
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.
On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
A ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together.
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker with Jules Scheele
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.
Boyfriends. Volume One: A Webtoon Unscrolled Graphic Novel by Refrainbow
Jock, Goth, Nerd, and Prep are all juniors in college. But studying is the last thing on their minds as they are mainly interested in getting a boyfriend. Or multiple boyfriends.
The Tea Dragon Society by K. O'Neill
The Tea Dragon Society is the two-time Eisner Award-winning gentle fantasy that follows the story of a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons.
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My top 10 nonfiction reads of 2023 (the asterisked ones are in French with no translation as of yet) :
Belle Greene, Alexandra Lapierre
The Indomitable Marie-Antoinette, Simone Bertière
Reporter: A Memoir, Seymour Hersh
Red Carpet: Hollywood, China and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, Erich Schwartzel
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patrick Keefe
Servir les riches, Alizée Delpierre*
La Comtesse Greffulhe : L’ombre des Guermantes, Laure Hillerin*
Le Courage de la nuance, Jean Birnbaum*
The Book Collectors of Daraya, Delphine Minoui
Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement, Hawon Jung
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HELLO!
(Yes, this is me as Sarah Winchester for Halloween. Also, yes, this is pretty much my general wardrobe give or take a lace layer. Yes, I wrote a long chapter in this book about Sarah Winchester because I really love her and find her to be fundamentally misunderstood.)
I just wanted to drop by and say it's still Women's History Month and it's still a GREAT time to read about historical women and how their stories resonate with us today. BONUS: you can do this through ghost lore! Here's how!
A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN: TRUE STORIES OF AMERICA'S GHOSTS examines women's history by using ghost stories; unpacking how we talk about women, alive and dead. Available wherever books are sold, in paperback, audio and digital! Retailer links here!
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