#a pulp novel parody of modern lesbians

[antimonyantigone]

🦚 and 🌈?

🦚 - Are there any queer books/shows/etc. that you would suggest?

Let me dig up my goodreads! The one I most recently finished is Women's Barracks by Torres, which came out in 1950 and has a reputation for being the first lesbian pulp novel. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for that because it's not going to hold up to modern queer literature, and the author was not queer, but if you want it for context, it's an easy read. The two "fun reads" I read that were food are House of Hunger (adult, sapphic vampire horror) by Alexis Henderson and The Girls are Never Gone (YA, sapphic, horror) by Sarah Glenn Marsh. I read a lot of horror, and I also recently finished Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin which is a good horror read, but it's not a "fun" horror read by any means. I really, really loved Mira Grant's Into The Drowning Deep, which is a nautical horror with sapphic characters. Killer use of "found footage" writing, as well. And, I have to shout out "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Spy: An Original Jane Bond Parody" which is exactly what it says on the tin. Jame's Bond twin lesbian sister, Jane Bond.

🌈 - What's a Queer Identity, Experience or a piece of History you feel deserves more recognition?

I'm not a historian, but one thing I gravitate towards is wanting more memory for queer scientists (because I am one, probably) and there are some famous scientists we rememeber were queer very well, like Turing, but like extra shoutout to Sally Ride and Sara Josephine Baker (who tracked Typhoid Mary and was especially interested in infant health). For our queer scientist clubs, I usually gathered profiles like this for trivia night or profile highlights.

#thank you!! #i apparently read more books than I thought i did