#trans rights readathon 2024

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TRANS RIGHTS READATHON 2024

(March 22-29, 2024)

Since people have gotten ahead of me on reading my queer monster short story collection for Trans Rights Readathon, I figure I ought to introduce it. Something's Not Right is a collection of stories featuring a diverse cast of human and non-human characters struggling with what society thinks is right. There are stories about transphobia, stories about trans love, stories about casual hot trans roommates who help you deal with your problems (dealing blood to vampires and witches); whatever bizarre relationship to queerness you could imagine, it's in there.

Anyone who can't afford a copy and/or can't get one at their local library is welcome to contact me directly for a free e-copy, no questions asked. I also have thousands of words of free fiction available on my website, including two explicit novelettes (Long Line and Band Girls) both of which include trans characters.

And a week's worth of personal trans recommendations from my top reads of the last couple of years, should you need it anytime:

Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg

Females by Andrea Long Chu

When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb

The Third Person by Emma Grove

Other Ever Afters by Mel Gillman

decolonizing trans/gender 101 by b. binaohan

Bonus links: ko-fi | Patreon

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What to Read for the Trans Rights Readathon 2024

NonFiction:

I Hope We Choose Love by Kai Cheng Thom

Ten Steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

Safe and Sound by Mercury Stardust

Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words (Various)

Fantasy:

The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Lark and Kasim Start a Revolution by Kacen Callendar

Our Bloody Pearl by DN Bryn

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

Venom & Vow by Elliot McLemore and Anna-Marie McLemore

Sci-Fi:

Mazarin Blues by Al Hess

Winters Orbit by Everina Maxwell

Strictly No Heroics by BL Radley

Horror:

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

Your Body is Not Your Body (Various)

General Fiction:

The Free People's Village by Sim Kern

Future Feeling by Joss Lake

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Romance:

A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland

The Stars and the Stage by DN Bryn

[lovebooksforeversblog]

Books 📚 recommendation for trans rights readathon.

Meet cute dairy

The witch king

Birthday

Pet

I Wish you all the best

Always the almost.

[lizanneyoung97]

BOOK REVIEW: A TALE OF SEASHELLS & SHENANIGANS BY ALEX NONYMOUS

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TROPES

Found Family

This is a cozy fantasy that has such a fun premise. From the first page, I was hooked. The main character works at a thrift store and then gets challenged to a duel that ends up taking them across seas and into unknown places, and the reader gets to be along for the ride.

Nico is a great character to follow. At times, you really question who they are as a person and why they are acting out at times, but as time goes along and we get more insight, Nico’s reactions to situations make sense. You can’t help but empathize with them and what they’ve been through. And while you initially might agree with their reactions to Tillie, their traveling partner, that changes too. 

While a cozy fantasy, there are times when things get incredibly real for the pair and you wonder if they’ll complete their quest or even make it back home. Watching Nico and Tillie try to work through their differences while achieving the same end goal is wonderful to watch, mostly because of how much they both change and open up to each other by the end. Even when their plans fail, they somehow manage to find the better side of the coin, and it’s nice to see how they do it. 

[hiddenbookcasepodcast]

I (Sorren) have decided last minute to take part in the #TransRightsReadathon!🏳️‍⚧️✨

I'll be donating £10 to Mermaids for every book I read between March 22nd and March 29th. If you'd like to support the cause, you can donate on my JustGiving page.

[ryttu3k]

Trans Rights Readathon

The Trans Rights Readathon starts tomorrow! From the 22nd to the 29th of March, the aim is to read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and 2Spirit authors and characters. You can find more information on it here!

I'll be donating AU$20 for every book I read to the Gender Centre. Want to help out? Use the comments of this post to pledge a per-book or lump sum - I'll contact you once the Readathon is over.

Here is my book list, including books I already own, books on my TBR I may be picking up, and a list of recommendations of books I've already read. You can find the books I've read for the Readathon under the cut!

Trans Rights Readathon 2024 Book List

RB Lemberg - The Unbalancing. Fantasy, 244 pages, 9/10. A beautiful queernormative fantasy with a bittersweet ending. 22nd March.

Nevo Zisin - The Pronoun Lowdown. Nonfiction, 96 pages, 9/10. A bright, informative primer on all things gender. 22nd March.

Ryka Aoki - Light From Uncommon Stars. SFF, 372 pages, 9.5/10. A love letter to music, food, found families, and outsmarting Hell. 23rd March.

Anthology - Kindred: 12 Queer LoveOzYA Stories. Collection, 320 pages, 7/10. A mixed bag of stories, with not all having trans characters. 24th March.

Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, with Daniel Sousa - Kapaemahu. Children's history/nonfiction, 40 pages, book 8/10, film 9/10. A beautiful and lyrical retelling of a story traditionally told orally. Check the short film here! 25th March.

Akwaeke Emezi - Content Warning: Everything. Poetry, 47 pages, 8.5/10. I'm not good with poetry (this is going in the Out Of Your Comfort Zone category) but this feels lovely and lyrical and dark and affecting. 25th March.

Rivers Solomon - The Deep. Fantasy, 166 pages, 9/10. Dark but with a beautiful sense of hope at the end, and also I want to go sit in the ocean right now. 26th March.

Gabe Cole Novoa - The Wicked Bargain. YA fantasy, 361 pages, 8.5/10. An adventurous historical fantasy with fab characters (there's a book focused on Dami and I Need it). 27th March.

Callum Angus - A Natural History of Transition. Collection, 200 pages, 8/10. Delightfully weird collection of short stories involving transition in unexpected ways. 28th March.

[tychodorian]

Hey, just in case you didn't know, the Trans Rights Readathon is going on! Add a bunch of good books to your TBR and support trans authors.

Check out the readathon and join up here:

[thehorrormaven]

Happy Trans Rights Readathon!

From March 22 – 29, 2024, the Trans Rights Readathon is being held. As a nonbinary individual, I find this readathon to be so important, and I am participating this year! For each book that I read during the readathon, I am going to donate $5 to Queer Asterisk, an organization here in Denver, Colorado that provides counseling, education, and community programs for queer, trans, and gender…

[mouth-almighty]

It's here!! #TransRightsReadathon has begun!! For the next 7 days I'll be reading books by trans and non-binary authors to raise money for transgender supporting organisations.

My first book of #trr24 is Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi. It's the prequel to Pet that I read for last year's Trans Rights Readathon and I've been so excited to read it.

The organisation that I have chosen to raise money for this year is grassroots Palestinian LGBTQ support network alQaws. They do valuable work for the community across Palestine so I'd like to help them with some funds.

My fundraisinging page is https://www.mycause.com.au/p/342587/prennas-trans-rights-readathon-2024 for those who want to support me.

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[spherewolf]

This year’s Trans Rights Readathon starts tomorrow, March 22, 2024!

Here’s my list of books that I’ll be reading:

- Infinity Alchemist

- The Story of the Hundred Promises

- Hell Followed with Us

- A Light Most Hateful

- Pageboy

- Even Though I Knew the End

Link to participate below:

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Initiatives we love

Trans Rights Readathon

MARCH 22-29, 2024 “The Trans Rights Readathon is an annual call to action to readers and book lovers in support of Trans Day of Visibility (TDOV) on March 31st. We are calling on the reader community to read and uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and 2Spirit authors and characters.”

Sign Up Here

Kraken Collective

"The Kraken Collective is an alliance of indie authors who have pooled resources to publish high-quality fiction while retaining complete creative control over our stories. We aim to provide a wide variety of science fiction and fantasy stories, all starring LGBTQIAP+ characters. From alien hunting lesbians to complex political fantasy, The Kraken Collective publishes queer SFF that will blow your mind away and leave you craving more. Although it begins as a simple cooperative between authors, we aim to grow into an unique publishing model capable of supporting queer indie voices everywhere in SFF. We are committed to building a publishing space that is inclusive, positive, and brings fascinating stories to readers. Cephalopods are fascinating and deeply intelligent creatures: masters of camouflage, brilliant escape artists, and underwater innovators–from the millimeters-long cuties to the kraken-like giants, they’ve impressed us with their constant ingenuity and creativity. In short, they are awesome. Just like us. We hope to create a kraken-sized cloud of ink through our stories and that, like an octopus hiding in its ink, you too can find refuge and solace in our worlds.”

See the Website

DYB Publishing

Decolonize Your Bookshelf is a publishing initiative run by Dominique(also the owner of Paperbacks & Frybread) and Michael LaBorn. They are dedicated to celebrating and uplifting voices of Black, Indigenous and other marginalized communities. They aim to increase representation and accountability in publishing by highlighting books by underrepresented authors and helping authors write better representation in their stories. The first book they published is Alfajiri by Michael Laborn. This is a great book for anyone who wants to dip their toes into fantasy. It has a lot of great fantasy themes while being short and easy to digest. It was so popular that Laborn wrote and extended edition of the story.

Alfajiri on DYB Publishing

Aro and Ace Database

“Enter a few keywords in the search bar of the database to find an aromantic or asexual character! These can be orientations (demisexual, grayromantic, etc.), story genres (fantasy, contemporary), or many more—and you can use more than one.”

View the Database

Queer Liberation Library

“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.” Apply for a membership to browse books on Libby.

Memberships

Everywhere is Queer

“This is a public resource (and ever-growing searchable map!) created for the LGBTQIA2S+ and ally community to find welcoming, queer-owned spaces to shop, connect, eat, learn, and grow all over the world… even in your own neighborhood!”

See the Map

[lovebooksforeversblog]

Books 📚 recommendation for trans rights readathon .

Chef's choice

All boys aren't blue

A lady for a Duke

Cemetery boys

Hell followed with us

Felix ever after.

[lizanneyoung97]

THEY WERE ROOMMATES BY DAWN CUTLER-TRAN

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TROPES

Friends to Roommates to Lovers

Found Family

Dual POV

This story is told more in a movie montage-like format, where we are being told everything rather than shown. We zoom through time (several years worth), stopping along the way to see key scenes in Frankie and Diego’s friendship and relationship. I think it’s a fun way to get through time, but I do feel like character development suffered because we rarely saw Frankie and Diego when it wasn’t in regard to each other. We don’t see a ton of their interactions with other people, making it a bit harder to understand who they are outside of the relationship dynamic.

That said, it is a great story about found family, acceptance, and understanding. Diego is a trans man, and a significant portion of his character arc is going through different stages of self-acceptance as he reaches different milestones of his gender euphoria. He certainly receives the most characterization between the two main characters and this was to the story’s benefit. Frankie’s POVs are usually filled with internal dialogue that goes a mile a minute, and as someone who also has that, it was nice to see that in a book.

[thephoenixandthecrocodile]

Trans Rights Readathon 2024

It’s 2024 and trans rights and lives are still being threatened and we’re facing an election between two old white cis men who don’t care about anyone, let alone the trans and non-binary community. Things are particularly fraught for trans people of color, which is why I’m raising $500 dollars for Brave Space Alliance. Brave Space Alliance is a Black-led, Trans-led, LGBTQ+ Center in Hyde Park,…

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My Storygraph 2023 Reading Wrap Up

Just posted my goodreads wrap up - excited to compare with the storygraph one, which is a lot more interesting and stat heavy!

already a slight difference in the page count - probably because I am not always using the exact copy I am reading on goodreads. Therefore this page count is more accurate. Also I listened to a lot more audiobook but it only counted 5.5? idk why?

Although my mood was pretty similar all year around, it is interesting to so the dip in October - which is makes sense because I was reading a lot of horror, unsure why the slight dip in may...

I had some real differences throughout the year. The biggest peaks, March when I was participating in the Trans Rights Readathon & Tordotcom-a-thon. For October (and autumn in general) I just was trying to read all the seasonal books, I nearly read a book a day in October.

is manga a genre....?

I think because the amount of manga I read, I am not by the pages read or the days spent reading. Most mangas are about 130 pages and I read in an hour or two. I am surprised it took me 2 weeks to read a volume of 2ha, I think this is the start of my falling out of love with danmei.

Caught up with delicious in dungeon this year. I also read a few other manga series, I don't think Mone Sorai is the only author I read 4 things from.

I can't zoom out so this a very awkward shot. Mooncakes and The Night Circus are both rereads, so not a lot of new 5* here. This makes sense tho, I didn't think I had a lot of standout this year.

Although my favourite book here is The Secret History, it was The Night Circus on Goodreads. Interesting to see this slight difference on the two sites.

Same highest rated as goodreads, I think a mxtx volume has been my highest book for the last 3 years. I am not reading any in 2024 so I wonder what my 2024 highest rated will be!

82 new authors... so about half of my reading?

This seems a lot higher that I was expecting. I think because I start series and lose interest this seems more, because I am only actively reading and continuing in about 20 series.