#sassafras lowrey

[yourdailyqueer]

Sassafras Lowrey

Gender: Non binary (Ze/hir)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: Born 1983  

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Writer, dog trainer

#Sassafras Lowrey #queerness #enby #lgbt+ #lgbtq #non binary #genderqueer #neopronouns #queer #1983 #white #writer #dog trainer

[haveyoureadthistransbook]

Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey

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In Sassafras Lowrey's gorgeous queer punk reimagining of the classic Peter Pan story, prepare to be swept overboard into a world of orphaned, abandoned, and runaway bois who have sworn allegiance and service to Pan, the fearless leader of the Lost Bois brigade and the newly corrupted Mommy Wendi who, along with the tomboy John Michael, Pan convinces to join him at Neverland. Told from the point of view of Tootles, Pan's best boi, the lost bois call the Neverland squat home, creating their own idea of family, and united in their allegiance to Pan, the boi who cannot be broken, and their refusal to join ranks with Hook and the leather pirates. Like a fever-pitched dream, Lost Boi situates a children's fantasy within a subversive alternative reality, chronicling the lost bois' search for belonging, purpose, and their struggle against the biggest battle of all: growing up.

Mod opinion: I've heard of this book, but I haven't read it yet. I really want to though! A genderqueer & kinky punk Peter Pan retelling? Sounds fun.

#lost boi #sassafras lowrey #polls #trans books #trans lit #trans literature #lgbt books #lgbt lit #lgbt literature #retelling #fantasy #nonbinary #trans man #to read

[a-poets-life-for-me]

what is it with queer people and being obsessed with peter pan? like…i fall under that but…what’s up with it?

#peter pan #lgbtqia+ #queer pride #this is a recurring theme #lost boi by sassafras lowrey tho

[crowclubkaz]

March 20th - 27th is the Trans Rights Read-A-Thon!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ Here are some of my fav trans reads, as well as some highly anticipated releases for later this year!

• Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White (YA Horror) • The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (YA Horror, releases September 5, 2023) • Peter Darling by S.A. Chant (Adult Peter Pan retelling) • Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey (Adult Peter Pan retelling) • Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore (YA Great Gatsby retelling) • Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (Adult Fiction) • Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (Adult Horror) • Pageboy by Elliot Page (Biography, releases June 6, 2023)

For more book recommendations, follow my Bookstagram @hauntedstacks 📚📖

#trans #transgender #lgbtq #book recommendations #trans books #trans authors #trans rights #trans rights readathon #books #bookstagram

[gaypiratepropaganda]

ok here are the most important ones (to me)

The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Anne Yolen

this is a children's book in verse about Anne Bonny and Mary Read. responsible for my pirate obsession

Bloody Jack by LA Meyer

a young adult series about a girl who disguises herself as a boy, goes to sea, and becomes a pirate. these were the best thing ever invented to kid me but I haven't read them in a while so I don't know if they're actually like, good. I liked the atmosphere and the slightly antiquated way it was written. there are gay bits.

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates: From Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence to the present Time, with the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny

or A General History of the Pyrates by "Captain Charles Johnson"

A good starting point. a lot of our pirate stories come from this book. it claims to be a true historical record, but I have my doubts. still fun though. I think this guy just wrote down every story he heard about pirates. it has illustrations.

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition by B.R. Burg

not super historical but it doesn't really claim to be. basically it's just this guy going. "so... pirates fucked, right? like, there's no way they didn't." and then he's correct. I mainly wanted this book as a teenager because I loved the cover and the title but now it's in my brain forever. look at Blackbeard. look at his gay little pose

Pirate Enlightenment or The Real Libertalia by David Graeber

this is the one I'm reading right now and I love it so far. it's about pirates in Madagascar and the real-life version of the pirate utopia from general history of pyrates (it isn't real but it kind of is but not.) I like the writer, he's written other good things. he's obsessed with the enlightenment for some reason but you can easily ignore that.

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, which is kind of like a magical realism type thing. I think it's kind of what pirates of the Caribbean is based on. this is where I knew Stede Bonnet from

Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb, three books that are part of a fantasy series. these pirates are dicks to each other a lot but they are gay and their ships are alive.

Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey is a queer sort of modern version of Peter Pan. captain hook is in there and he's like a leather guy. not literally pirates, but still.

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach is science fiction with queer pirates, a monkey god, and mushroom houses.

#iumblr #our flag means death #queer #pirate #if you have a library #you can go on their website and look up all the books with the subject “pirates” and read those. #Project Gutenberg is good for old books #and then another weird thing I do is #go to theanarchistarchive.org and search for pirates there #sometimes there are interesting things #ancient texts old articles fun ramblings #if you run out of books the queen anne's revenge archeology website is cool #and the pirate surgeon website #reference

[contracat25]

I'm excited to be participating in the #transrightsreadathon which is being put on to promote and show support for trans authors and trans books, and to raise funds for trans support groups!

Thanks to @sim_bookstagrams_badly for creating this readathon! If you want to know more about it head on over to their page.

As for what books I might be reading see above. I'm excited to get at least a few of these read this week.

I'll be donating some of my money to The TGI Network of RI and Thundermist for every book I read.

Are you participating? And if so what are you reading and where will you be donating?!

I can't wait to see what everyone else is reading :)

Image 1: a stack of books on teal fabric. Books in the image include: - Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey - Dead Collections by Issac Fellman - Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo - When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sascha Lamb -Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White -The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang - The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders

Image 2: 4 book covers on a colorful background. Books in the image include: -Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom - Once Stolen by D.N. Bryn -Depart Depart by Sim Kern Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore

#trans rights readathon #transrightsreadathon #trans books #queer books #lgbtq books #booklr

[bookclub4m]

Episode 155 - Literary Fan Fiction

This episode we’re talking about Literary Fan Fiction! We discuss ancient myths, fairy tales, Sherlock Holmes, copyright, Sherlock Holmes, authorized sequels, Sherlock Holmes, and sequels vs reinterpretations! Plus: Sherlock Holmes! (Okay, he didn't get mentioned that much.)

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

The Girl in Red by Christina Henry

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne was reprinted in Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)

Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie (Wikipedia)

Copyright status

Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Other Media We Mentioned

The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

And Another Thing… by Eoin Colfer

Shadow Master Series Volume 3 by Andy Helfer, Kyle Baker, and Joe Orlando

Includes the comic in which The Shadow’s head is placed on a robot body

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

Jack the Ripper in fiction (Wikipedia) (Yes, there’s an entire article and it mentions at least five additional stories that feature Sherlock Holmes.)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill

Fables (comics) by Bill Willingham (Wikipedia)

The Argonauts and the Quest for the Golden Fleece (Wikipedia)

Beowulf (Wikipedia)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith and  Jane Austen

Grendel by John Gardner

Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray

The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow

A Study in Emerald by Neil Gaiman (Wikipedia)

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro

The Great Mouse Detective (Wikipedia)

Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (Wikipedia)

Elementary, Dear Data (Wikipedia) - Star Trek: The Next Generation episode

House (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Elementary (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Sherlock (TV series) (Wikipedia)

Dorian Gray (2009 film) (Wikipedia)

Victor Frankenstein (film) (Wikipedia)

The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (Wikipedia)

Enola Holmes (film) (Wikipedia)

Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith (Actually just about cowboys who really like Sherlock Holmes)

Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the American West by John S. Fitzpatrick

Links, Articles, and Things

Fan fiction (Wikipedia)

Matthew was probably combining Robert Ludlum (died in 2001 and since then thirty books have been published under the “Ludlum brand”) and Tom Clancy (died in 2013 and since then 18 books have been published under the “Clancy brand”)

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries A 2022 collection of new stories by various authors about Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple character

Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture (Wikipedia)

Robin McKinley (Wikipedia)

Frankenstein's monster (Wikipedia)

How Rocket Raccoon Rescued My Brother, Famed Marvel Writer Bill Mantlo by Mike Mantlo

Doujinshi (Wikipedia)

Doraemon Doujinshi Accused of Infringing Copyright

Hark Podcast

Sherlock Holmes  (Wikipedia)

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Copyrightable Character by Nicholas Perrotti

Sargasso Sea (Wikipedia)

22 “Literary Fan Fiction” (retellings, adaptations, sequels, parallel novels, etc.) books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

For this booklist, the original story being retold/referenced appears (in parentheses).

Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi (Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer)

The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (El Gaucho Martín Fierro by José Hernández)

The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang (The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Windward Heights by Maryse Condé (Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë)

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (The Stranger by Albert Camus)

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan (A Room With a View by E.M. Forster)

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle (The Horror of Red Hook by H.P. Lovecraft)

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells)

The Holder of the World by Bharati Mukherjee (The Scarlet Letter by Nataniel Hawthorne and the Ramayana by Valmiki)

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor (The Tempest by William Shakespeare)

Even in Paradise by Elizabeth Nunez (King Lear by William Shakespeare)

The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh (The Tale of Shim Ch'ŏng)

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel (The Ramayana by Valmiki)

The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall (Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)

My Jim by Nancy Rawles (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain)

Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson (Wee'git stories)

Unforgivable Love by Sophfronia Scott (Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos)

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nghi Vo (The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Prince of Cats by Ron Wimberly (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)

Sansei and Sensibility by Karen Tei Yamashita (Various works by Jane Austen)

Pride by Ibi Zoboi (Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen)

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Join us again on Tuesday, August 16th we’ll be discussing an update on what media we’ve been enjoying outside of the podcast. (Oh no that’s next week.)

Then on Tuesday, September 6th we’ll be discussing the format of Audio Book Fiction!

#episodes #genres #fiction #literary fanficiton

[statecryptids]

Book Review time!

Roving Pack by Sassafras Lowrey

An epistolary novel told through the journal entries of Click, a homeless trans kid navigating the Portland, Oregon queer teen community. Estranged from hir family (Click uses the neopronouns hir and ze), and with a restraining order against hir mother, ze bounces from temporary apartments to friends’ homes, to hir various partners’ dwellings. Though ze feels most at home at the Queer Youth Recreation Center (QYRC) where the majority of the community is focused.

Click and zir community don’t fit the “traditional” ideas of the trans community, though they’ll probably be more recognizable to many nonbinary folks. Genderfluidness and Genderqueerness are major themes of this book Several of the other queer characters use neopronouns as well and will switch chosen names as it suits them or as their gender expression changes.

Relationships play a big role in Roving Pack. Dom/sub, BDSM and leather communities are especially important. Though Click often lusts after hir friends, this is mainly out of loneliness, and the book focuses primarily on the emotional dynamics of relationships and the fulfillment of being taken care of by another rather than just sex.

Roving Pack also explores the negative sides of relationships, such as the devastation when the deep emotional connection of Click’s Dom/sub relationship is suddenly ripped away. Or the dread Click feels when ze realizes the restraining order against hir abusive, manipulative mother is about to expire.

Housing instability is another big theme as Click and hir friends never have stable places to live and regularly couch surf or bounce from cheap apartments to basement rooms to spare bedrooms.

Readers should be aware that Click and the other characters regularly and casually use slurs for gay and queer people, though they are always used in-group and said with familiarity, not animosity.

#book review #lgbtq books #homeless

[leeharrington]

"I am the street-worn boot tread walked away by travels, by running away from my fears and then later striding steadily towards them. Each intentional step brings me closer to something I still cannot yet define. In his hands I glow with the same shine I bring to his boots. I am not dress boot or titleholder finest; I am lived-in boots that have walked through the elements. I am layers in scuffs, gouges marring the surface in need of being worked out." Sassafras Lowrey, Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink Get your copy of Spirt of Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink today: https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Desire-Personal-Explorations-Sacred/dp/0557992419/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=pass-20 [Descriptions: Image is split in two halves. The left side has a solid brown background with white text that reads: "Each intentional step brings me closer to something I still cannot yet define. In his hands I glow with the same shine I bring to his boots. I am not dress boot or titleholder finest; I am lived-in boots that have walked through the elements. I am layers in scuffs, gouges marring the surface in need of being worked out.". On the right is the cover of "Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink" Edited by Lee Harrington]

[domwho11]

My interview with Sassafras Lowrey

#sassafras lowrey #a little queermas carol #lost boi #roving pack #trans author #genderqueer #trans #lgbt art

[biandlesbianliterature]

[image description: two Facebook screencaps. The first is "We Removed Something You Posted. We removed the post below because it doesn't follow the Facebook Community Standards: Sassafras Lowrey posted "at least 2017 has brought us the return of Dykes To Watch Out For (which I didn't used to read, because I was firmly on the Hothead side of the lesbian comic binary... but now I do?)"” The second screencap is “You’re Temporarily Blocked From Posting: This temporary block will last 24 hours, and you won’t be able to post on Facebook until it’s finished. / Please keep in mind that people who repeatedly post things that aren’t allowed on Facebook may have their accounts permanently disabled.”]

Author Sassafras Lowrey was blocked from posting on Facebook for mentioning Dykes To Watch Out For--or more specifically, for using the word “dyke” at all.

It’s no secret I love social media – and defying all logic, my favorite of the social media platforms has always been facebook.  I had been seeing friends post about new policies where Facebook was blocking people or pulling content that used the word “dyke” as reclaimed and empowering identity language. I continued posting on my facebook like normal, and woke up this morning to discover that not only had a post I’d made yesterday sharing the newest Dykes To Watch Out For classic lesbian comic had been pulled for “violating community standards” but my profile had also been put on a 24 hour hold, and I’ve been reminded/threatened that repeat “offenses” could get my profile deleted.

Because there has been doubt that this is happening, I took screenshots

BLOCKED on Facebook because I’m a #Dyke

#sassafras lowrey #facebook #dykes to watch out for #lesbian #lesbian books

[loveisofthebody-blog]

lbmisscharlie

Is this semi-fantasy? I'm having a hard time imagining a book set in the past 20-30 years that doesn't give contextual clues about when approximately it takes place (technology, cultural references) unless it's on purpose. Regardless, I think for me attention to the ways any person's set of beliefs or behaviors are always going have some contradictions is important - some writers handle that with more skill than others, and some with better attention to prevailing norms w/i the community being discussed. Agreed with hbbo about the line btwn nostalgia and glorification -- it's an "I know it when I see it" thing for me, wrt authors handling well the contractions and difficulties of period attitudes while also building fully-fledged characters.

So, no! It really isn’t! I am scouring my brain (the book has since been returned to the library) for definite references to technology or current events or cultural touchstones, but am drawing a blank. It’s set in a punk squat, and the lack of devices or whatever would indicate a historical setting, but it also works for contemporary broke homeless anarchist kids.

littlemsfox

I missed the scene (I don't know if it was just barely age wise or, more likely, oblivious) but I couldn't finish this novel. There was something about it (perhaps some of the things referenced in the post) that i found really unsettling

I still can’t decide if I liked it as a novel. Like many retellings I worry it relied too heavily on the source material and spent too much time reveling in the cleverness of its adaptation. I definitely found it most compelling as a queer time capsule, and not at all as an actual story with actual characters.

#lbmisscharlie #littlemsfox #replies #lost boi #sassafras lowrey

[sometimesalwaysandnever]

Our identities are too complex to be understood in passing glances.

Sassafras Lowery Made Real

#sassafras lowrey #identity

[queerbetweenthelines-blog]

“There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it.”

Sassafras Lowrey, Lost Boi

#LGBT literature #gender #gender norms #boi #lost boi #lost boy #Peter Pan retelling #Sassafras Lowrey #trans #queer #Queer Literature

[deathwearshighheels]

8 Things You'll Want to Prepare For If You’re Moving with a Dog https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/moving-with-a-dog-37065458?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Category%2FChannel%3A+main

#Sassafras Lowrey by Apartment Therapy| Saving the world #one room at a time <img src="https://cdn.ap

[outsidetheknow]

The Dog Park Is Bad, Actually Dog parks may seem like great additions to the community, but they’re rife with problems — for you, and for your dog. Here’s what to know before you go.. via NYT Smarter Living

#Actually The New York Times #https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/smarter-living/the-dog-park-is-bad-actually.html?partner=IFTTT SASSAFRAS LOWREY The Dog Park Is Bad