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[queerliblib]

Hi there! I was wondering: on the Libby app, there's the option on books you don't have yet to get notified if that book is ever added to the catalogue. When we hit that button, do you all get to see that as a way for us to "request" a book? Or should we still send in a formal request for the books through the form on your website?

This sounds so confusing, hopefully you understand what I'm trying to ask, but if not just say so and I'll try to explain more!

Thanks so much for all you do 🩷💞

We see those notify me tags! it definitely functions pretty similarly to the request form in the way of ‘someone wants us to have this in the library’ so we should put consider adding it to our wishlists.

one of the reasons we have the request form to start with is that we were asking people what they were interested in before we really launched - so before we we on Libby. now that we are, the notify me tags are pretty convenient in that they show us all at once how many people are interested in certain titles.

the only reason you’d really need/want to fill out the request form as well is if you have something you really want to say to add context to that request. for example, we’ve had authors say ’this is my book!’ but otherwise you really don’t have to do both.

#hope that answers your question! #thanks for asking #queer liberation library #qll #asks #libby

[queerliblib]

our web designer @uxmaxburns out in their community spreading the word about QLL!

printable pdf flyers available at 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/QLL-flyers

have you dropped QLL flyers at your local haunts? snap a pic and tag us! <3

#queer liberation library #qll #let’s get grassroots baby!!

[queerliblib]

absolutely adore that movie, thank you for calling it out. as said before, we’re dedicating each new reblog of this post to more lesbians, so this one, this one is FOR THE HIGH FEMMES

YOU GO GIRLS!!

💖

It’s Lesbian visibility week !!!

❤️🧡🤍💗🩷 (we also have some reading recs over on insta)

[queerliblib]

Hello! 👋 I’m a cardholding member and a huge fan of your mission! Would you happen to have a newsletter I could sign up for, or a way to sign up for alerts when new books are added to the catalogue? Thanks for all you do!

Hello!! hell yeah we do. in the bottom left corner of each page of our website there’s a ‘stay in the loop’ box you can fill in your email to get our newsletters.

they come out once a month (wild circumstances aside, occasionally there might be a bonus newsletter) and usually give a breakdown of highlights from the past month + some key things coming down the pipe for next month. (our April one just came out yesterday! you can read it & find previous months newsletters here)

for more granular notifications of when a specific item may get added to our catalogue we recommend putting a ‘notify me’ tag on it! we see those on our end, and it is one of the factors that helps inform purchasing. if you put a notify me tag on a specific item, you’ll get a direct notification if/when we purchase it, and will have the chance to be one of the first in line to check it out!

#but thanks for asking! #queer liberation library #qll #asks #<3 #queer books #libby #newsletter

[queerliblib]

Your collection on Libby is amazing 😭 I wanted to read a few books for Lesbian Visibility Week but I'm in Delhi, India and I can't access anything

thank you!!! <3

It’s been so delightful to see all the love & support from folks internationally. we wish we could do QLL world-wide, but unfortunately we simply don’t have that kind of capacity at this time. hopefully you can at least use our recommendations as inspiration to track down some that you may have access to through your local systems!

outside of that, if we’re talking Lesbian Visibility Week, there’s always open access materials like Stone Butch Blues - available for free always to anyone anywhere with an internet connection to download from Leslie Feinberg’s website.

Some other great materials that are freely available include;

72 LGBTQ+ Studies books in the DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books)

16 Gender & Sexuality Studies books in the Open Textbook Library

Project Gutenberg: has many books that are in the public domain - you can find some older queer classics here like The Well of Loneliness

#queer liberation library #qll #asks #queer books #open access

[queerliblib]

this one goes out to all the butch lesbians!!!!!!!! we fucking love you!

It’s Lesbian visibility week !!!

❤️🧡🤍💗🩷 (we also have some reading recs over on insta)

[queerliblib]

shoutout to all the perfect trans lesbians out there (that’s all of you)

It’s Lesbian visibility week !!!

❤️🧡🤍💗🩷 (we also have some reading recs over on insta)

[queerliblib]

are we going to reblog each and every beautiful gif addition to this post??? terribly sorry but we must. for the lesbians. <3333

It’s Lesbian visibility week !!!

❤️🧡🤍💗🩷 (we also have some reading recs over on insta)

[queerliblib]

It’s Lesbian visibility week !!!

❤️🧡🤍💗🩷 (we also have some reading recs over on insta)

#we love you #and you #and you! #LET’S GO LESBIANS

[queerliblib]

⚠️PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️

The Queer Liberation Library is, as the name suggests, a digital library centered around queer literature. They offer library cards to anyone in any place, all you need in order to sign up is an email address. Then you can access their catalog online or through apps like Libby.

When I signed up I received an email that said there’s sometimes a waitlist, but I should have my card within a week or else someone would get back to me within that timeframe to explain if I had to wait longer. I ended up getting my card after only a couple of days.

Their website is very accessible and easy to use. My favorite features are the button at the bottom of the screen which lets you switch between light and dark mode, and the Quick Exit banner along the top of the page that doesn’t go away regardless of where you navigate on the site.

This is such an incredible resource and I can’t believe I didn’t know about it until very recently. I want every queer person to know about it! They have accounts on most of the major social media sites (such as tiktok, Instagram, even here on tumblr at @queerliblib). There’s also a place on their website where you can suggest books they should add to their catalog.

After you get your card, I’d suggest the first book you read to be Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon. It is a short but powerful little book that I think is an incredibly concise analysis of societal gender-based discrimination, and a great place to start a lot of really important discussions. I listened to the audiobook this morning (it was only an hour long, which is a win for my trash attention span) and I couldn’t believe how good it was for so little page time.

I will absolutely be reading the rest of the Pocket Change Collective (the series which Beyond the Gender Binary is part of) and I can’t wait to see what I’ll learn from them.

#tysm for the shout out! #love that you’re able to find books like this through us #<3 #queer liberation library #qll

[queerliblib]

just gonna reblog this with some fresh upDATES check ‘em out

Print these out (at work! don’t use your own ink) and drop them in coffee shops, paste them on telephone poles, share with your friends and go nuts at festivals

Do you guys have any fliers or materials handy that people can print off to hand out to spread the word that way? I was thinking of making one for some queer friendly and queer owned businesses in my area if not, but I thought I'd check (and make sure it was also cool with you guys to spread the word that way). Just explaining what the project is and how to sign up.

Hello! indeed we do.

go nuts! paste these up/hand out any/everywhere you’d like

#queer liberation library #qll #<3

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[queerliblib]

The American Library Association released their list of most challenged and banned books of 2023 and, no surprise, it’s pretty queer!! It’s really infuriating. There are some ways you can help — you can find suggestions on the ALA website. And you can always donate & spread the word about QLL & other orgs working to get folks access to these materials.

#queer liberation library #qll #queer books #banned books

[queerliblib]

It has multiple POVs (including some of younger queer characters), but one of the main POV characters in A Day of Fallen Night is a 50 year old lesbian who's been with her love interest for the past 30 years before the story starts.

The Samantha Shannon one? it’s in our wishlist along with The Priory of the Orange Tree, but we haven’t been able to buy it yet!

#asks #queer liberation library #qll

[queerliblib]

Hi! Are you looking for any additional help? I'd love to volunteer

Hi! So, we do have a volunteer form here, which you’re welcome to fill out with what sorts of skills you could bring.

however. (and this is a pretty big however) we honestly don’t know yet when we’d realistically be able to call on more volunteers. we want to do a volunteer program right. one that’s well organized & structured so that everyone has a good experience, and so that it’s useful & sustainable for our needs as well.

turns out that’s a lot of work to put together! and as our steering committee is also 100% volunteer with outside day-jobs, we haven’t had the capacity to put together a volunteer program yet. At the point in the future when we do have a volunteer program set up we absolutely will be reaching out to people who have filled out that form!

#asks #queer liberation library #qll

[queerliblib]

Did we just do a surprise mid-month purchase of more simultaneous user ebooks & audiobooks??? hell yeah we did

check them out from our ‘available now’ list!

#queer liberation library #qll #queer books #new books!!!

[queerliblib]

Hello again lovely folks on this post! not only have we added several in the Moonlighters series (in both ebook & audiobook format), but we’ve also developed a whole curated list of queer books with middle aged & older protagonists!!

Hello! I don't usually have trouble finding queer romances wherein the characters are in their 20s or 30s. But, I'm in my 50s. Do you have any recommendations for queer romances which revolve around middle-aged characters?

Hello! yes, absolutely - there are so so many that we’re hoping to buy over the next few months, but for those that are in our collection right now we’ve got:

Mimosa - a graphic novel about a group of queers finding community in their 30’s & 40’s

The Four Profound Weaves - centers two older trans protagonists

Bingo Love - separated in their youth, two grandmothers find each-other again in their mid-60’s

No Strings Attached - a mother & recent divorcée takes steps to change her life

happy reading <3

#happy reading ~ #queer liberation library #qll