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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

#queer fiction

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aro & ace books with a university setting!

Ace of Hearts - m/f marriage of convenience romance, sex-repulsed ace MC

Dear Wendy - two aroace MCs, friendship/anonymous rivalry

Loveless - aroace coming-of-age/coming out

Is Love The Answer - aroace coming-of-age/coming out

Tears In The Water - identity questioning & sports romance, with an acespec MC, demi LI, and aroace side characater

The Society for Soulless Girls - witchy thriller, one MC is maybe ace/demi (though it doesn't really solidify if she is or not)

Let's Talk About Love - m/f romance with a biace MC

Create My Own Perfection - fantasy short story with an aroace MC

Fallen Thorns - paranormal coming of age with an aroace MC

#aspec books / aspec database

#queer fiction #queue

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Coming Soon: May Trope Mayhem 2024!

It’s almost time for May Trope Mayhem!

What is May Trope Mayhem? It’s Duck Prints Press’s annual multi-fandom/original work creation event! Our creators have shared their favorite tropes, and we’ve picked 30 (+1 free day!), one per day of May to make an awesome, fun, diverse list of prompts to inspire your creativity. Come May 1st, we invite everyone to create a ficlet, artwork, gif set, photo montage, or whatever else they feel like, inspired by the trope of the day. We’re open to any fandom or no fandom at all, original characters and old faves, any ship (yes even that one) or no ship or reader inserts or, or, or… basically, if you can imagine it, we can accommodate it!

This year marks our fourth-annual May Trope Mayhem. Curious about the event? You can learn some by checking out our previous three years!

the 2021 May Trope Mayhem list and rules

the 2022 May Trope Mayhem list and rules

the 2023 May Trope Mayhem list and rules

the AO3 Parent Collection

The rules for 2024 will be about the same as in the past, so the only big change will be in the tropes – some are repeats, some are not. And of course day 31 is still a free day – we’d love to know YOUR favorite trope, especially if it it doesn’t end up our list for this year!

The 2024 list goes public on May 1st. Mark your calendars, tell yours friends, and get ready to create with us! And follow us on social media to make sure you don’t miss a thing!

Backers on Patreon can see the list early! It’s up now – become a backer and check it out.

#self reblog #last reminder!!! the list will go up soooooon

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Duck stamp rough layout concept

#duck prints press loves ducks #ducks #queue #duck art

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#book art #queue

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A late day 4!!

#duck prints press loves ducks #ducks #duck art #queue

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I made these slides to post on another platform but I decided I wanted to put them here too. (Ignore the messed up color stripes on the second image)

Book list for those who can’t see the images:

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi

Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

The Girl From The Well by Rin Chupeco

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco

Leech by Huron Ennes

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White.

#queer fiction

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Free Coloring Page!

Have you seen our awesome notecard image created by Miss Aceriee (Instagram | @aceriee-art on Tumblr | Twitter) for our current Kickstarter campaign, And Seek (Not) to Alter Me: Queer Fanworks Inspired by William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"?

Well, I doubt it's surprising to learn that we put a lot of thought into which flags to represent with each flower, and which flags to include. We wanted to make a bouquet as diverse as our queer communities, as inclusive as impossible, and to reflect the range of queer identities featured in the book and among our authors and artists. It was really great to research the different flags and decide which ones we wanted, and where. Do you recognize them all?

Yes? WAY TO GO!

No? Here's a quick key - listed in counter-clockwise order, starting at 9-o-clock:

Gerbera daisy - Pride flag (we opted for the Philadelphia flag - the brown and black are in the center, as a representation of how central BIPOC are to queer communities and history; we'd have used the Progress Pride flag but since we were already separately including the trans flag and intersex flag, we went with the Philadelphia flag instead)

Violet - genderqueer flag

Lily - asexual flag (these are also the colors of the demisexual flag)

Tulip - bisexual flag

Gladiola - has flowers for the lesbian flag (pink/orange - there are multiple lesbian flags, we use this one as it's generally considered the most inclusive), the gay men's flag (blue/green), the trans flag (white/blue/pink), and the aromantic and agender flags (both are green/black/grey)

(No longer only blue)bell - has flowers for the genderfluid flag (pink/blue/black/white), non-binary flag (yellow/purple/black/white), intersex flag (yellow with a circle), polyamory flag (red/blue/black), and pansexual flag (pink/yellow/blue)

We couldn't include every Pride flag - there are far too many for that! - but we tried to incorporate all the most commonly used and most widely recognized. We wanted as many members of this community to see themselves in this arrangement as possible - but in the end, we'll never be able to include everyone.

That's where you, yes YOU, come in!

Do you wish the flowers had been assigned flags differently? Is there a flag not represented that you wish was? Would you have handled the coloring of the image in an alternative manner? Do you love it exactly as it is but like to play with colors?

YOU ARE VALID AND WE SUPPORT YOU!

AND, we'd love to see your work! This is your moment - because we asked Miss Aceriee to make a coloring page version of our note card! All the line art, none of the colors, so you can let your imagination go wild!

So, here you go - a lovely blank version of our note card art:

Or, you can download a high resolution, *enormous* version, in a zip from our website - here.

If you choose to draw with our coloring page, we'd love to see - and share - your work! @ us on the social media platform of your choice - we're duckprintspress on Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, Pillowfort, Dreamwidth, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Archive of Our Own (...okay, you can't ping us there, but if you post there, give us the link and we can make a collection of works!) - and show us how YOU'D use this gorgeous bouquet of flowers to celebrate the rainbow variety of queer identities!

(Use a different social media platform and wish Duck Prints Press had a presence there so you could follow us and ping us in your creations there? Let us know, we'll see what we can do to add the platform of your preference!)

Have a wonderful, and very queer, weekend, everyone. And happy Trans Day of Visibility (...slightly belated, but we think trans folk deserve many many days of visibility, and we hate April Fool's day, so. Two day celebration!)!

#queer art

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Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖

#queer art #queue

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Morg is here to physically throw you into the mosh pit.

#duck prints press loves ducks #ducks #duck art

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#queer fiction

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my new years resolution is to draw more ducks

#duck prints press loves ducks #ducks #duck art

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Totals Time!

It's been a year of records and record-breaking. Of reaching new fandom spaces and building new community ties. It's been wild. And absolutely fantastic.

When we closed the auction signup window we had 981 offers —nearly 150 more than we'd ever had before. When we re-opened it for 4 more hours, hoping to find another 19 folks (because we wondered what an auction with 1000 offers would look like) you all came through in spades, boosting the auction everywhere and bringing back 100 new offers in 15 new fandoms, bringing us to 1081 offers this year - a 33% increase over our previous record.

And you all weren't done breaking records. Shattering them.

This is the first year that any of our supported nonprofit orgs has received a 5-digit sum. And? TWO of them did.

So. Are you ready to see what our community has done? Are you ready for the numbers?

This year

thanks to all of you

FTH raised…

$67,931.28

The breakdown of donations to orgs looks like this -

This brings our eight-year total to

$307,439.14

Huge thanks to our 797 creators offering 1081 auctions in more than 400 different fandoms and subfandoms, and to everyone who bid! And to our 17 fan crafters who brought in $4,127 of that total —60% more than our previous crafting record!

So, what's next?

Contact deadlines:

Creators, be sure you contact your bidders by April 1, and bidders, on your end please respond to their communication by April 15!

Bidders need to provide their creator with a workable prompt by June 30 (unless you've worked out a different timeline together) to ensure they have plenty of time to finish their fanwork.

Once the fanwork is posted, let us know via our form (can you believe FOURTEEN creators have already finished??) and if you’re posting it on AO3 be sure to add it to the Fandom Trumps Hate 2024 collection. If you’re writing a fic for FTH and need help from our Regiment of Fan Laborers, email us! As always, the deadline for completed fanworks is December 31.

We hope that for at least some people, your involvement in FTH will lead to continued action throughout the year. Sign up for our organizations’ email lists, check out their volunteer opportunities, and help boost their signals on social media!

And if you’d like to run your own fanworks auction for a good cause, we can help get you started!

We have a packet of organizational materials we’ve been sharing with other auction organizers since 2017; we’re planning to spend the month of April overhauling and updating these materials to incorporate many of the improvements we’ve implemented since then. If you’re thinking about organizing an auction or fanworks exchange in your fandom to raise money for a good cause, we would love to share those materials with you. Contact us at fandomtrumpshate at gmail.com and we can send you our auction playbook, as well as answer any questions you have about our process.

Your mods (@porcupine-girl, @captainbunnicula, @tiltedsyllogism, @anyawen, @renjunbabygirl, @trickybonmot, and @a-still-small-vox) are going to be going into post-auction hibernation mode (or, for most of us, post-auction deal-with-all-this-other-stuff mode) for a little while. So if you email us, don’t panic if we don’t get back to you immediately! We will start actively monitoring the inbox again by April 15 at the latest.

#fandom #absolutely amazing

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(i have a feeling this poll will get way more views than some of my other ones so I am once again asking you to fill out https://forms.gle/66bRngwjD2fzWX7p6 if you know anything about the character)

#polls #fandom polls #queue

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Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! 📚📖🏳️‍🌈

This does come with the caveat that I can't quite remember if the characters in How to Find a Princess, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, and Chain-Gang All-Stars identity specifically as lesbians or not, but they are all sapphic. Full titles under the cut!

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

How to Find a Princess by Alyssa Cole

Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

#queer books #queue

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#polls #polls for writers

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T.O.D.A.A.A.A.A.Y!

we'd love to see you there!

Upcoming Event: A Big Gay Market!

This Sunday, April 28th, we’re thrilled to be among the 100+ vendors who will be selling their wares at Albany’s quarterly A Big Gay Market! We’ll be there with our latest books and merch, and all our old favorites, and a few new never-before-seen things too, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Washington Park on the Knox Street Mall in Albany. The forecast is looking gorgeous – high of 73, partial sun, chance of showers in the afternoon and evening. Definitely a day to wear sunscreen!

Even better? 10% of our net profits will be donated to Camp Unirondack!

So, if you’re anywhere near the Capital District of New York and are looking for an awesome opportunity to do some shopping, get some fabulous stuff, and support a great cause, make sure to come say hi (and claim your very own free tiny duck…)!

#self reblog