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bookaddict24-7 · 2 months

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒James Baldwin﹒

Ten Books Written By this Author:

Giovanni's Room

The Fire Next Time

Go Tell It On the Mountain

If Beale Street Could Talk

Another Country

Notes of A Native Son

Sonny's Blues

Going to Meet the Man

Nobody Knows My Name

Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone

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Happy reading!

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bewaretheidiotsofmarch · 27 days

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Heyo! Btw, if you ever want to see MORE of my art, these are my two mains on instagram, one of which is new and for ONLY Republic content, including a lot of forgotten sketches!

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wildwoodgoddess · 4 months

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So I've finally launched my TikTok account--I'm posting videos about the research I've been doing for my books, as well as book recommendations, and even videos where I'm making book-related art and reading from my book, A Study In Garnet. If you like my femlock and female, sapphic, Sherlock Holmes content here, you'll probably like my videos there. Here's one of my art videos--I'm making mixed media art related to A Study In Garnet and reading an excerpt from it. It's from where Holmes and Watson (both in male guise) meet. Hope you enjoy! If you watch it, please let it play all the way through--I think it will make TikTok like me better--and also, if you could be so kind, do the like, share, bookmark, comment things, basically any love you can spare would mean so much to me! Thank you so much!

#lgbtqia #lgbtq+ authors #support indie authors #sherlock holmes #john watson #acd canon #acd sherlock holmes #acd holmes #lgbt #lgbtq #support indie creators #femlock #sapphic books #sapphic fiction #female dr watson #female sherlock holmes #signal boost please #please follow me

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whilereadingandwalking · 2 years

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In Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta, a young Igbo girl named Ijeoma discovers she has feelings for a Muslim Hausa girl named Amina. Once they're discovered, they're quickly weighed down by the immense pressure and homophobia their families heap onto them to become heterosexual and fit in.

In modern-day Nigeria, same-sex relationships are criminalized. As I wrote in Book Riot, Okparanta has received criticism from Western readers who claim that such strong homophobia is an issue of the past in the U.S. (which itself is arguable), or who take it as an opportunity to see Africa as “behind” or “backwards” compared to the US. Okparanta’s book features the truth of queerness in Nigeria and the horrific repression, persecution, and violence that queer people in Nigeria must face.

The novel is an honest story of what it's like to be pressed through a ringer of religious dogma and enforced heterosexuality. Ijeoma wants to be loved by her mother. She is torn in two by religion, alternately certain that her love cannot be wrong and certain that she is being punished or going to be punished for being an 'abomination.' Being queer means living in fear of discovery and brutal violence. Can she survive it? Can she really hide in a veil of heterosexuality forever?

Okparanta's prose is simple, and the chapters are short, so the story rushes by. For all its emotional weight, the book is a fast read.

Content warnings for homophobia, conversion therapy, violence, suicidal thoughts/suicide, ethnic prejudice, parental death, ableism, domestic abuse.

#under the udala trees #chinelo okparanta #queer books #sapphic books #lgbtq+ authors #my book reviews

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imanalbertross · 5 months

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Updates! Updates everywhere!!

Hi, guys. So things have been difficult the last few months in my household- Millennial Financial Syndrome, general stress about the upcoming holidays, and the slow and long-coming death of my church (which I have been a part of since my birth and is a member of the UCC which is a very liberal denomination). Uncle Albert is kind of having some mental health difficulties because of it, but I also want to keep going with sharing my works and art with you guys. I appreciate all of you so much.

And now, with the Al update out of the way, here's the other ones:

Chemistry: Law and Chaos: Varian and Kazlin are rescued and Varian fills the group in on some things.

Discomfiture: Hugo meets the Doc and the boys try to learn how to interact again.

The Last Flight: The group enters the city of Brintchel, where they get new clothes and make lots of plans.

Scientia Aeterna: Olric steals the diary and is cast away by Arvin, descending into the bad (worse?) part of town to get drunk as Pi'loc kick's Arvin's butt and the boy goes hunting for the man he loves.

#hugo vat7k #varigo #vat7k #varian vat7k #varian and the seven kingdoms #tangled varian #varian #varian the alchemist #varian tangled #lgbtq+ authors #lgbtq+ fiction #fantasy fiction #gay ass librarians #lesbian dragon moms

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franticvampirereads · 2 years

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You know when you read a book at just the right time and everything just clicks? That was this book for me. I’m at a loss for words right now and I want to just sit in all the feelings that this book brought with it.

I loved that this book was messy and didn’t shy away from all the scary and hard things that life has to offer. It was also filled with so much love and the space to find yourself. And Grace was just the character that I needed in this story. I loved that she was allowed to have an existential crisis (I felt that all the way to my bones). I loved that Grace was able to let herself sink as far as she needed to before finding the help she needed. And while I might not have agreed with her cutting all communications with her support system, I think she did what she needed to.

One of my other favorite things about this book was the friends/roommate! All of them were amazing and I loved that they just created their own little queer family. Also, Yuki is so cool! I would give anything to listen to a podcast like hers.

All in all, this was an amazing book. And it fully deserves every ounce of praise its gotten and so much more. Honey Girl is getting a five out of five stars from me.

Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:

#bookedging: new to you author

#bookedging: romance by a black author

PopSugar 2022: a sapphic book

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relevy · 2 years

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I'm gonna be real folks! It's been a rough year, I've not grown nearly as much as I needed to pay my bills. This means I have to take time away from writing and producing to do freelance work which is draining and inconsistent.

Please please please consider joining my patreon, I have a $1 tier which means if miraculously 500 people signed up to support me for $12/year I'd be breaking even on my finances every month.

Here's a link to my linktree which connects not only to my patreon, but to my beta/sensitivity reading services, my merch, and where to buy my novella.

Thanks for reading, I love you.

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[Image Description: Four images on a rainbow spectrum background with large blocky retro colorful graphics, the text reads on picture one "On this the last day of pride 2022 how about helping a queer creator find financial stability in their art". On picture two there is a selfie of a nonbinary person flashing the peace sign and the words "bisexual nonbinary hot mess". On picture three the text reads "I need $500 more/month to pay my bills. Click the linktree in my bio and head to my patreon where I create my space western podcast: Tales From The Ridge. I have a $1/month tier, that's $12 for a whole year of content". Image Four reads "Thanks, I love you!". End Image Description]

#lgbtq #queer #lgbtq books #lgbtq+ authors #queer pride #lgbtq+#lgbtq+ writers #podcast #fiction podcast #science fiction #author #writeblr #writers on tumblr #podcasting #podcastlife #space western #tales from the ridge #patreon #relevy writes

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adarmistead · 2 years

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Sent our first novel to our betas last night! So excited to share more on Somewhere Safe to Land soon! 🥰

#sstl #indie authors #lgbtq+ novels #lgbtq+ authors

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bdapublishing · 2 months

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Our Mission: To create an empowering platform that celebrates and amplifies the voices of BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and women authors, encouraging them to share their unique stories and perspectives with the world and inspiring change.

Through our SpotFund campaign, you can join us in changing the narrative, one page at a time. Your contribution has the power to do more than just print books; it’s about giving a voice to those who have long been silenced. With a goal to support at least TEN new authors this year and print over 2,000 copies, we’re not just counting numbers; we’re fostering representation and diversity in every word.

This isn’t merely a campaign; it’s a movement. 🌎❤️ If you’d like to donate to our SpotFund, click here.

#bookblr #book blog #books and literature #indie publishing #booklover #indie author #books #books and reading #bookworm #reading #bipoc authors #lgbtq+ authors #lgbtq authors #women authors

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bookaddict24-7 · 10 months

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AUTHOR FEATURE:

﹒Brandon Taylor﹒

Four Books Written By this Author:

Real Life

Filthy Animals

The Late Americans

They Belong Only to Themselves

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Happy reading!

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thedisabilitybookarchive · 1 month

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'We Shall Be Monsters'- Newman-Stille, Derek

Disability Rep: Multiple- TBD, Unidentified

Genre: Short Story Anthology, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Age: Adult

Setting: Multiple Settings

Additional Rep: Queer Identities, Trans Identities, Discussions of Race

For more information on summaries, content warnings and additional tropes, see here:

#books #disability books #disability representation #disability #disabled characters #fiction #lgbtq books #lgbtq+#lgbtq characters #lgbtq representation #lgbtq+ authors #horror #fantasy #science fiction #short story anthology #short stories #frankenstein #link

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brandyschillace · 1 month

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The Forgotten History of the World’s First Transgender Clinic

I finished the first round of edits on my nonfiction history of trans rights today. It will publish with Norton in 2025, but I decided, because I feel so much of my community is here, to provide a bit of the introduction.

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The Institute for Sexual Sciences had offered safe haven to homosexuals and those we today consider transgender for nearly two decades. It had been built on scientific and humanitarian principles established at the end of the 19th century and which blossomed into the sexology of the early 20th. Founded by Magnus Hirschfeld, a Jewish homosexual, the Institute supported tolerance, feminism, diversity, and science. As a result, it became a chief target for Nazi destruction: “It is our pride,” they declared, to strike a blow against the Institute. As for Magnus Hirschfeld, Hitler would label him the “most dangerous Jew in Germany.”6 It was his face Hitler put on his antisemitic propaganda; his likeness that became a target; his bust committed to the flames on the Opernplatz. You have seen the images. You have watched the towering inferno that roared into the night. The burning of Hirschfeld’s library has been immortalized on film reels and in photographs, representative of the Nazi imperative, symbolic of all they would destroy. Yet few remember what they were burning—or why.

Magnus Hirschfeld had built his Institute on powerful ideas, yet in their infancy: that sex and gender characteristics existed upon a vast spectrum, that people could be born this way, and that, as with any other diversity of nature, these identities should be accepted. He would call them Intermediaries.

Intermediaries carried no stigma and no shame; these sexual and Gender nonconformists had a right to live, a right to thrive. They also had a right to joy. Science would lead the way, but this history unfolds as an interwar thriller—patients and physicians risking their lives to be seen and heard even as Hitler began his rise to power. Many weren’t famous; their lives haven’t been celebrated in fiction or film. Born into a late-nineteenth-century world steeped in the “deep anxieties of men about the shifting work, social roles, and power of men over women,” they came into her own just as sexual science entered the crosshairs of prejudice and hate. The Institute’s own community faced abuse, blackmail, and political machinations; they responded with secret publishing campaigns, leaflet drops, pro-homosexual propaganda, and alignments with rebel factions of Berlin’s literati. They also developed groundbreaking gender affirmation surgeries and the first hormone cocktail for supportive gender therapy.

Nothing like the Institute for Sexual Sciences had ever existed before it opened its doors—and despite a hundred years of progress, there has been nothing like it since. Retrieving this tale has been an exercise in pursuing history at its edges and fringes, in ephemera and letters, in medal texts, in translations. Understanding why it became such a target for hatred tells us everything about our present moment, about a world that has not made peace with difference, that still refuses the light of scientific evidence most especially as it concerns sexual and reproductive rights.

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I wanted to add a note here: so many people have come together to make this possible. Like Ralf Dose of the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft (Magnus Hirschfeld Archive), Berlin, and Erin Reed, American journalist and transgender rights activist—Katie Sutton, Heike Bauer. I am also deeply indebted to historian, filmmaker and formative theorist Susan Stryker for her feedback, scholarship, and encouragement all along the way. And Laura Helmuth, editor of Scientific American, whose enthusiasm for a short article helped bring the book into being. So many LGBTQ+ historians, archivists, librarians, and activists made the work possible, that its publication testifies to the power of the queer community and its dedication to preserving and celebrating history. But I ALSO want to mention you, folks here on tumblr who have watched and encouraged and supported over the 18 months it took to write it (among other books and projects). @neil-gaiman has been especially wonderful, and @always-coffee too: thank you.

The support of this community has been important as I’ve faced backlash in other quarters. Thank you, all.

NOTE: they are attempting to rebuild the lost library, and you can help: https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/archivzentrum/archive-center/

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theluckyfishy · 1 year

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February Reads

I’m not sure what happened in February. I did not read nearly as much as I expected to.Several reading challenged this year had both “Read a book published the year you were born” AND “Read a book that has it’s 50th anniversary this year”. How nice that these are both the same thing for me! Many of the books published in 1973 make me go “Oof, what was happening in the world I was born into?”I do…

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#books #cats in books #classic children&039;s literature #female protaganist #Ithaca #Ithaca NY #LGBTQ+ Authors #LGBTQIA #librarylove #neurodivergent characters #reading #transgender main character

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mysweetsinfulobsessions · 4 months

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HIJAB BUTCH BLUES by LAMYA H.

Alright, changing it up a bit with my book stuff but this one hit home with me. The author draws very interesting parallels between stories in the Quran and her experiences as a gay muslim woman that are very interesting. And if you think you can’t be muslim and gay, or wear a hijab and be gay, or even tackle muslim culture and queerness in one, then you’re bound to be pleasantly proved wrong with this one.

#and you know what? the way the author handles the concept of coming out and anonymity is so fucking relatable #the author remains anonymous per her own choice and thats fucking something #lgbtq books #lgbt books #book recommendations #lgbt book recs #queer book recommendations #queer books #gay muslim #lesbian muslim #queer muslim #muslim representation #muslim books #lgbt muslim #lgbtq muslim #lgbt+ books #hijab butch blues #lamya h #hijab butch blues lamya

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shinobicyrus · 1 year

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Was minding my own business today when my brain suddenly recalled a history text I read years ago back in college describing homosexuality in medieval monasteries. Being an isolated population of entirely men comprised of the cast-off and spare sons of local lords and nobles, it was not uncommon for the monks to rampantly bugger the hell out of each other.

Then, in a display of rules-lawyering that medieval monks were infamous for, the monks would Confess their recent “sins” to their lover so they could Absolve each other. That way, they could walk around with a spiritually clean slate until the next time they got together with the hot monk in the next cell over and “sinned” again. Genius. Outstanding. Gaming the system. No notes.

#History #LGBTQ History #Medieval History #Medieval Monk #Queer History #Shower Thoughts #yes this is real #and if memory serves the book's author also found it as funny as I did

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franticvampirereads · 2 years

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Have I mentioned lately how much I love the Heartstopper comic? Because I really do love it. And especially this volume. It deals with mental illness, eating disorders, and mental health in a way that doesn’t feel like it’s just glossed over. There were some scenes that were harder to read then others, but they were so, so important and I’m glad they were there. Nick and Charlie are some of my favorite characters in literature. I love that they go through these ups and downs and that they grow, both together and separately, into the people they’re meant to be. And I can’t wait to see where they end up.

These books always leave me with warm fuzzy feelings. And this one was no exception. I’m so excited to see where the rest of Nick and Charlie’s story takes us. Volume 4 is getting a solid five stars.

Reading Challenge Prompt Fills:

#bookedging: lgbtqia+ romance

#bookedging: friends to lovers

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