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gealach-in-a-misty-world · 30 days

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Beneath the waters by the islands of Gelle-Geu, a star sleeps restlessly. The celebrated new starkeeper Ranra Kekeri, who is preoccupied by the increasing tremors, confronts the problems left behind by her predecessor. Meanwhile, the poet Erígra Lilún, who merely wants to be left alone, is repeatedly asked by their ancestor Semberí to take over the starkeeping helm. Semberí insists upon telling Lilún mysterious tales of the deliverance of the stars by the goddess Bird. When Ranra and Lilún meet, sparks begin to fly. An unforeseen configuration of their magical deepnames illuminates the trouble under the tides. For Ranra and Lilún, their story is just beginning; for the people of Gelle-Geu, it may well be too late to save their home.

"To heal, you must first become trusted".

R.B. Lemberg's The Unbalancing is a quiet story of salvation, an Atlantis-like story set in a world governed by a Bird goddess, where stars are kept by starkeepers and people do magic with their names. The main characters, a nonbinary demisexual poet and a loud starkeeper with much hurt in her past, come together to save their island from destruction, and they find love with each other.

The poet is a quiet character, unwilling to take on the role that others are sure should be hers; the contrast with the starkeeper, who took what she could to emancipate herself, makes for an interesting dynamic. The starkeeper is an extrovert, taking on many lovers, but behind the exuberant veneer is someone who is deeply hurt. The poet is still questioning, attempting to find their place and the precise iteration of their nonbinary identity, for this is a world where nonbinary people can be of five different types, and they signal it through hair tokens and complex hairstyles. This is a story of acceptance, too, and finding one's worth, and overcoming one's past.

The worldbuilding is immaculate, painting with deft strokes a world that is complex and different and deeply accepting, where consent matters to acts of magic and the stars come from afar. It is a slow unraveling, when the mystery of the stars' origin is revealed, and it is deeply touching. The ending feels just right in its inexorability, with pages of exquisite prose.

The Unbalancing is a quiet treasure of a novel.

✨ 4 stars

📚📚📚 IF YOU LOVE THIS, YOU MIGHT LIKE:

* Keeper of the Dawn, by Dianna Gunn

for: community, consent

[You can find more of my reviews about queer speculative fiction on my blog MISTY WORLD]

#rb lemberg #the unbalancing #lgbtq books #queer lit #queer books #queer #sff #queer sff #sff books #books #book reviews #reading #gealach reads #gealach writes

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ryttu3k · 1 month

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"Our gardens, our learning, our magics - all that is good and fine," said Dorod with a firmness. "But above it all, we must remember who we are. We are fierce and free in our loves and our choices, and nobody rules us, not even the Keeper. We come together in councils and we choose our leaders, but none of them would even imagine taking our deepnames away, or indeed our ichidi tokens. We gift all to each other. Unless we perish, every single one of us, nobody and nothing can destroy this."

- The Unbalancing, by RB Lemberg

#trans rights readathon #transrightsreadathon #books #book quotes #the unbalancing #rb lemberg

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transnovelsbracket · 8 months

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This is the randomly-generated bracket for adult (i.e. non-YA) novels by trans authors! The books are as follows (in order of when I thought of them). Please boost this post! The first round will begin tomorrow, or as soon as I get at least a couple of reblogs on this.

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars, Kai Cheng Thom

Little Fish, Casey Plett

Small Beauty, jia qing wilson-yang

She Who Became The Sun, Shelley Parker-Chan

An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

Future Feeling, Joss Lake

Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg

Light From Uncommon Stars, Ryka Aoki

In The Watchful City, S. Qiouyi Lu

Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters

Nevada, Imogen Binnie

Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi

Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor

Yemaya's Daughters, Dane Figueroa Edidi

Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin

The Thirty Names of Night, Zeyn Joukhadar

Machineries of Empire series, Yoon Ha Lee

The Tensorate series, Neon Yang

Sea Witch, Never Angeline Nørth

The Subtweet, Vivek Shraya

The Story of Silence, Alex Myers

Wrath Goddess Sing, Maya Deane

Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel, Julian K. Jarboe

Upright Women Wanted, Sarah Gailey

Darryl, Jackie Ess

The Four Profound Weaves RB Lemberg

Little Blue Encyclopedia, Hazel Jane Plante

Otros Valles, Jamie Berrout

the earthquake room, Davey Davis

The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders

Running Down, Al Hess

#tumblr bracket #tumblr poll #transgender #queer books #queer fiction

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haveyoureadthistransbook · 3 months

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Hi there, I have some books for you! The Trans Space Octopus Congregation by Bogi Takács; Pantomime by L.R. Lam; The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang; Stake Sauce Act One: The Secret Ingredient is Love. No, Really! by RoAnna Sylver; The Unbalancing by RB Lemberg; To Stand in the Light by Kayla Bashe; Nine of Swords Reversed by Xan West; Under My Skin by AE Dooland; Green Toes by Avery Flinders; and a German one: Ich bin Linus: Wie ich der Mann wurde, der ich schon immer war by Linus Giese

Thank you for these submissions, I've added them to the list :)

#not a poll #ask #rainwindandstars

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mischievousblade · 8 months

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Short Story: Naomi Kanakia “Everquest”

If you are a trans gamer, it’s practically a guarantee that some of your first experiments with gender were digital. I absolutely created more than a few female Night Elves on my friend’s World of Warcraft account when I was a deep-in-the-closet preteen. Naomi Kanakia’s “Everquest” dives deep into this relationship between avatar and self. By literalizing the fantasy of this transformation, Kanakia captures a uniquely trans feeling of escape that gaming allows and ends in a space that is both melancholy but also undeniably hopeful and at peace.

The short story is available for free in the Lightspeed Magazine.

This short story is also available in the book:

We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 by C.L. Clark

Book Genre: Fantasy, LGBT, Short Stories ISBN # 9781952086274 Edition Language: English Date of Publication: 2021-8-

We’re Here 2020 includes the following stories from 2020: “If You Take My Meaning” by Charlie Jane Anders (Tordotcom, February 26, 2020) “A Voyage to Queensthroat” by Anya Johanna DeNiro (Strange Horizons, August 2020) “Rat and Finch are Friends” by Innocent Chizaram Ilo (Strange Horizons, March 2020) “Salt and Iron” by Gem Isherwood (Podcastle, May 2020) “The Currant Dumas” by L.D. Lewis (Glitter + Ashes, edited by dave ring) “Everquest” by Naomi Kanakia (Lightspeed, October 2020) “Portrait of Three Women with an Owl” by Gwen C. Katz (The Future Fire, February 2020) “The Ashes of Vivian Firestrike” by Kristen Koopman (Glittership, May 2020) “To Balance the Weight of Khalem” by RB Lemberg (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, March 2020) “Thin Red Jellies” by Lina Rather (Gigonotosaurus, February 2020) “Body, Remember” by Nicasio Andres Reed (Fireside, November 2020) “Escaping Dr. Markoff” by Gabriela Santiago (The Dark, March 2020) “The Last Good Time to Be Alive” by Waverly SM (Reckoning 4, edited by Danika Dinsmore and Arkady Martine) “Monsters Never Leave You” by Carlie St. George (Strange Horizons, June 2020) “The Wedding After The Bomb” by Brendan Williams-Childs (Catapult, April 2020) “8-Bit Free Will” by John Wiswell (Podcastle, November 2020) Our incredible cover is by Sajan Rai.

#everquest #short story #lgtbqia+

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lgbtqreads · 2 years

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psssttt got any recommendations for queer books i could get on my birthday? It can be anything fiction or nonfiction, but if it's majorly trans that would be pog.

Well I don't know when your birthday is, but I can definitely make some recs of great trans books that are already out! Check out Man O' War by Cory McCarthy, Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters, Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons, The (Un)popular Vote by Jasper Sanchez, The Heartbreak Bakery by AR Capetta, Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton, Fake It by Lily Seabrooke, For the Love of April French by Penny Aimes, The Calyx Charm by May Peterson, Lakelore by Anna-Marie McLemore, Light Beyond Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, and The Four Profound Weaves by RB Lemberg - little bit of everything in there!

#LGBTQReads #Trans Lit

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nbpsiioniic · 2 years

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I want to talk a bit about a criticism that happens on here a lot, both about fanworks and genre fiction: the matter of characters using contemporary terms for their queerness/neurodivergence/etc in a way that may feel jarring for the setting.

In particular, I wish that people would acknowledge that phrasing these things in a way that fits tonally into the story while also being clear and unambiguous to readers can be a really difficult needle to thread. Instead of, yknow, mocking people for using these modern terms like they're just silly tumblrinas who don't know any better.

There are options here, with benefits and drawbacks to each of them.

Show, don't tell. The characters' identities aren't directly named at all, but become clear through their experiences or actions. Example: A character is shown using an implant that regulates their hormones, or having a meltdown, or displaying a clear pattern to their attraction. The Locked Tomb series doesn't use the words "lesbian" or "trauma" but the relevance of those concepts to the story is clear. A lot of people enjoy the seamlessness of this, but the less well known the identity in question, the bigger the chance there will be an information gap for the reader.

Verbalize identities without explicitly naming them. Example: A character describes being taken for a different gender than their true one as a child, or explain that certain sensations can overwhelm them, causing them to become unresponsive. In Shira Glassman's Mangoverse series, an aroace character explains that she is not interested in courtship of any kind, be it emotional or physical. Slightly more explicit than the above while still couched in terms the characters would use, but the possibility of misunderstandings remains.

In-universe terminology. You invent/define a term yourself. Compounds, conlangs or using a familiar word in a new way are all possibilities here. Example: Aqun-Athlok is a term frm Dragon Age Inquisition that approximates a (culturally inflected) transgender experience. In RB Lembergs's Birdverse series, transgender people are referred to as "changers". It's important here to define the literal meaning of the word and make the in-universe connotations clear. Also, check that the compound or Latin or whatever you're using doesn't have any real-life offensive connotations (unless that's the point, see below).

Translation Convention. Treat terms like "genderqueer" or "meltdown" the same way you do "champagne" or "boycott". They're translations of the concepts the characters are actually referring to and which they would have their own words for. Example: a character or the narrative explicitly name depression or nonbinary identity or etc. This is the closest to the often-criticized approach, and a lot of people report finding it jarring, but I also don't see it that much in situ. For a lot of other people, explicit naming makes them feel seen and can resist the stigma that exists around naming many marginalized identities. The other problem here is that terminology is specific to time and place, means different things to different people.

See also: - Think about the background: What is the general cultural attitude to these lived experiences? If there's oppression, what does the resistance look like? Are some terms derogatory? Are they reclaimed? Substitute canon/headcanon/your own imagination here depending on what you're writing. - If you want to take a less explicit approach in-text while still being totally unambiguous, consider clarifying outside of the text. If it's in a foreword, footnote or glossary attached to the work, I would consider it canon. If it's in a separate article/post/etc somewhere, it's Word of God. - Mix and match: you don't have to stick to one single approach in your works. Characters can use different words to describe their experience, and some concepts can be more or less well-established than others. TL;DR: Instead of mocking people who use contemporary terminology in their SFF/fanfic/whatever, consider spreading resources about different ways to make identities clear in fiction, and have a respectful discussion about your preferences.

#fandom culture #fandom meta #writing meta #long post

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sparrowsfallingfromthesky · 5 months

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What are their titles please

Hi! So there are a lot of lists of books about ace-spectrum people floating around on tumblr and on the wider internet, but here's a list I compiled for my library recently:

Adult Fiction:

The Romantic Agenda by Claire Kann

The Circus Infinite by Khan Wong

The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun

Never Been Kissed by Timothy Janovsky

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (sort of)

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune

The Unbalancing by RB Lemberg

Nonfiction:

Ace by Angela Chen

I Am Ace by Cody Daigle-Orians (shelved in adult nonfic at my library but great for teens)

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe (graphic memoir)

A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality by Molly Muldoon and Will Hernandez (teen graphic)

Ace Voices by Eris Young

Youth/Teen Fiction:

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann

All Out edited by Saundra Mitchell

Love Letters for Joy by Melissa See

Aces Wild by Amanda DeWitt

The Grimrose Girls by Laura Pohl

Rick by Alex Gino

You Don’t Have a Shot by Racquel Marie

Loveless by Alice Oseman

Background rep:

A Conspiracy of Truths and A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland

The Witch King by H.E. Edgemon

There are definitely more out there (I made this list for a library social media post so I was only using books we had in our collection, plus I was mostly including things I've read) but hopefully this is a good start!

#martianian #💜#books #asexuality

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ethereallad · 2 years

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Upcoming EVENT: 1455 SummerFest on July 14!

I will be taking part in the 1455 Literary Arts Summer Festival, on The Imagination of Resistance: Community and Solidarity in Speculative Fiction panel, along with dave ring, Izzy Wasserstein, RB Lemberg and Victor Manibo. When: July 14, 2022, 8pm EST Where: Register online here

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#1455 Literary Arts #Summerfest

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wearethekat · 1 year

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December Book Reviews Overview

The Belle of Belgrave Square (Mimi Matthews)

Provenance (Ann Leckie)

Ship Wrecked (Olivia Dade)

The Unbalancing (RB Lemberg)

The Romance Recipe (Ruby Barrett)

The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul (Victoria Goddard)

The Red Scholar's Wake (Aliette de Bodard)

A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting (Sophie Irwin)

Children of Ragnarok (Cinda Williams Chima)

The Serpent's Egg (Caroline Stevermer)

Wicked Gentlemen (Ginn Hale)

Daughter of Redwinter (Ed McDonald)

Band Sinister (KJ Charles)

#my book reviews #december book reviews #monthly book overview #editing to add harper collins reviews that were previously withheld

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rainwindandstars · 3 years

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Queer Book Recommendations part 2!

Here’s the promised second part of my book recommendations! This time we have mostly fantasy books! I’ve included a short summary for each book, along with what I liked most and who I think would enjoy a book the most, and of course which kind of representation there is, though I’ve probably forgotten some. And this time there are even covers, because they are gorgeous :) The books are in no particular order. Some of the authors have tumblrs, I’ve added those I know of as well in case you want to follow them. That said, have fun reading!

(Link to part 1)

Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault (Fantasy)

This is a cute fantasy heist/detective book about a thief, Claire, (who is also the baker Claude by day) and a detective, Adèle having to work together to find and save the city’s magical people who are used as a power source by a scrupulous company. Friendship and found family are important themes in this book, and it has a French-inspired setting which I found refreshing! Read this if you like baking puns and want to read a queerplatonic spin on the enemies-to-lovers trope!

Rep: Claire is allo aro and genderfluid, Adèle biromantic demisexual. Claire is also fat, and it’s treated respectfully and positively. Other rep includes non-English neopronouns, disabled characters and a queerplatonic relationship!

Not Your Sidekick (Sidekick Squad) by C.B. Lee ( @authorcblee) (YA fantasy)

This is the first book in a YA series about a group of teens living in a (somewhat dystopian) town where superheroes are a part of daily life. This one is mainly about Jess, the daughter of two superheroes, who accidentally starts an internship at her parents’ nemesis company- though she also gets to work with her crush, Abby, there. And she soon discovers that there is more to the superhero and supervillain system than she thought. The following books are also really good! Read this if you like teenage superheros having adventures!

Rep: Jess is bi, Vietnamese and Chinese, and her friends include a Black trans boy and a latina a-spec girl. They are the main characters of the following books.

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver ( @thesylverlining) (Fantasy)

This book takes place in the city of Parole, whose inhabitants have a wide variety of superpowers. It is cut off from the outside world, burning and falling apart, and also under constant surveillance. I don’t usually like books with dystopian/grim settings, so I put off reading this for a long time, even though I heard a lot of praise for it. But despite the setting it’s actually really hopeful and uplifting. The plot centers around how the characters are resisting, not giving up and most importantly sticking together. They are all super interesting, diverse and often very relatable. Read this if you want to read a really well written, character focused book!

There’s a second book set around a group of characters outside Parole (but with connections to the characters in book one) where we learn more about what’s going on in the rest of the world. There’s also a bunch of short stories!

Also: All books by RoAnna Sylver are currently (June 2021) free on their itch.io!

Rep: Lots! Polyamory and QPRs, ace, aro, sapphic, gay, bi, transfem, transmasc and nonbinary characters, and also several disabled characters. Notably, one of the MCs has anxiety and panic attacks and it’s incredibly realistically written.

Stake Sauce Arc 1: The Secret Ingredient Is Love. No, Really by RoAnna Sylver (Urban fantasy)

This is a paranormal fantasy- we follow a group of former firefighters who try to live their life five years after a traumatic work accident killed one of their friends/one character’s fiancé and nearly killed and left one of them, Jude, disabled. But Jude is convinced that it wasn’t just an unlucky accident, he knows he saw a vampire attack and kill their friend. And he is determined to never let anything like that happen again, and tries to be a vampire hunter. Tries, because he still hasn’t found any vampires. But things get complicated when he meets Pixie- a young, cute vampire who doesn’t want to bite anyone and is nothing like the monsters Jude is hunting. I love this book, and the second one a lot! The way the characters deal with grief and trauma, how they can strain relationships even with people who are very close is written very sensitive and realistic while still being optimistically written. Read this if you want friendship and found family as major themes!

There’s also a second book and a short story collection which is usually patreon-exclusive but is currently free on itch.io!

Rep: Jude is an autistic, grey aroace trans man, has PTSD and is an amputee. various flavours of queer (nonbinary, wlw, mlm, some polyamory, a-spec) and neurodivergent.

The Black Tides of Heaven (Tensorate) by J.Y. Yang (Fantasy)

This is a Asian-inspired Fantasy revolving around Akeha and Mokoya, the twin children of the Protector, the ruler of their country and their struggle to find and keep their agency while their mother wants to use them in her political schemes- especially Mokoya, who has prophetic powers. The worldbuilding here is fantastic, though most things are only hinted at and not described extensively (it’s a fairly short book). Gender identity is one important topic- children in this world don’t have a gender assigned at birth but get to choose their gender when they grow up, something Akeha struggles with a lot. Other important themes are familial relationships, especially between siblings and different ways of rebellion against an absolutist ruler. Read this if you like magical siblings!

Book one of the Tensorate series follows mostly Akeha, while book two follows Mokoya. Books three and four follow other characters and have an unusual writing style, being written as a journal and an extended monologue respectively.

Rep: All children are presumed nonbinary, and choosing a gender that doesn’t fit your birth sex and transitioning are treated as completely normal, so while there are characters that would be trans in our world, it’s qiite different in this world. There are all kinds of queer relationships, including some polyamory!

The Queen of Cups by Ren Basel ( @renniequeer) (Fantasy)

This is a short fantasy novellette about Theo, a young captain who goes to the mysterious Oracle, an ageless woman living on the beach, to have their fortune told and to get a blessing for their ship before their first voyage and the adventure of this first voyage. The story is short enough that writing more about the plot would spoil too much, so I’ll leave it at that. Even though it’s really short, this story has interesting worldbuilding and is beautifully written. Read this if you want a heartwarming and exciting little story!

Rep: Theo is nonbinary and autistic (with synesthesia!) and is in a QPR with a trans woman. There are lots of queer minor characters.

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie ( @annleckie) (Fantasy)

This book follows two storylines- the first one is about a troubled kingdom whose patron god is weakening as the throne has been taken by an usurper. Eolo, a young trans man is trying to help the true ruler reclaim his kingdom and discovers an important secret. This storyline has lots of political intrigue, drama and suspense. The second storyline begins in the far past, and recounts the life of an ancient rock deity who is also the narrator. This storyline deals more with concepts, like religion and mythology, language and imagination, with some very interesting ideas. I liked how the gods aren’t just superpowered humans, but powerful, truly inhuman beings (there’s a god who is a swarm of mosquitos!). Read this if you like nonhuman narrators and lots of flashbacks!

Rep: Eolo is a trans man, and I think most characters are POC.

The Four Profound Weaves by R.B. Lemberg (Fantasy)

This fantasy novella is set in the Birdverse and centers around two trans elders- Uiziya, a trans woman who transitioned years ago and has always been accepted by her people, and a nameless trans man who only transitioned very recently and struggles a lot with the rigid gender roles of his people. Together they go on a journey to seek out Uiziya’s aunt, so she can teach Uiziya how to weave from death, something Uiziya has waited for for decades. The language here is very lyrical and evocative, and the story is mystical and deep. And while it is quite dark at times, overall it’s still a hopeful book. The desert setting is also really cool! I especially loved the perspective of the nameless man, who could finally transition and now struggles both with the people who still see him as a woman, and the people who accept him but expect him to now fit in with the other men- which he doesn’t. I think this perspective is something that’s sorely lacking in most other books with trans narratives. Read this if you want interesting magic with older trans people!

There are also a bunch of short stories in the Birdverse, so check them out if you want to read something shorter by the same author!

Rep: Uiziya is also fat and dark skinned, there’s also some polyamory, sapphic characters and a nonbinary autistic child.

Lifelode by Jo Walton (Fantasy)

Lifelode is a pastoral fantasy, set in a small village where polyamory is the norm (families are usually two women and two men and all their children). The central story is mostly about the daily life of one family, while the larger plot is only in the background. This book also has really interesting worldbuilding- time passes differently in different places, and one character can see people’s past and future. The beginning of the book can be a bit difficult to understand because of this but it’s really worth it to stick with it! Read this if you like cottage core and polyamory!

Rep: Polyamory, and one minor f/f relationship.

The Trans Space Octopus Congregation by Bogi Takács (Fantasy/Sci-Fi)

This is a short story collection, and the title accurately shows how weird and queer these stories are. They have widely varying topics, both fantasy and science fiction- sentient octopuses, resistance against alien invasion, a failing memory archive… Frequent themes are nonsexual kink, Jewish faith, community, disability and, well, all forms of queerness. Read this if you want unconventional queer short stories!

If you enjoy weird queer poetry, Bogi has also published a collection of eir poems, called Algorithmic Shapshifting

Rep: too much to list, but nonbinary and Jewish people the most.

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ryttu3k · 1 month

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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.

#trans rights readathon #transrightsreadathon #books

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