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"The Blackness between the stars is the melanin in your skin. I read it in a book. I take it to mean that as Black folks we are limitless. That, maybe, our blackness holds our dreams, not just churches and Bibles?"

Wow, this book hit me unexpectedly hard. It‘s a beautiful story of friendship and love between two girls from different parts of the world. The level of support and caring in these girls lives is remarkable. Not to say they don‘t face challenges, and big ones.

I‘m so glad I picked this up and that I pulled it off the shelf this week. Perfect book at the perfect time.

Hi #LMPBC #GroupPforPride

Here are some of the LGBTQIA+ books I have on my shelves and haven‘t read yet. The tagged would be my first choice, but please let me know if you have preferences or which ones you might have already read. The top 3 are YA, I‘m not sure about the bottom 3, but I think they are adult. I‘m excited to mark up some books with you all!

I noticed that Amazon and Google have this book on sale today, so I thought I‘d share about it!

5: Gabby Rivera‘s blurb for this book is perfect: “The most gorgeous, profound, spiritually uplifting, queer Black Afro-futuristic-magical, ancestral love oracle/book I‘ve ever read in my whole life.”

#12booksof2020 @Andrew65

**TW: a few descriptions of homophobic violence

✨ gorgeous, lyrical prose
✨ beautifully captures themes around spirituality & ancestral connection
✨ the father/daughter relationships were especially wonderful ♥️

— the love story was sweet but felt a wee bit rushed
— the plot was difficult to grasp at times, but I almost didn‘t mind bc the writing was SO good 🤩.

A poetic exploration of the spirit of Black women & girls. ★★★★☆.

Guh 😍✨

#currentlyreading | excited for some #blackgirlmagic ✨😍

July wrap up! I finished 15 books this month: 9 cozies and these 6 books. Knocking on Labor‘s Door was my July #bookspin book. Looking forward to reading women in translation in August!

For #pridemonth2020, I'm highlighting 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors. Junauda Petrus is a poet, performance artist, filmmaker, and writer. She's also a co-founder of the group Free Black Dirt. #lgbtqauthors #lgbtqvoices #blackauthors #blackvoices #pocvoices

Loved this magical and lyrical love story! Black women, LGBTQ, Magic! Full of love , strength, magic and sadness ! There are 12 different poems each with an astrological sign as the name. So I say this checks off at least the name Libra for #readyoursign

Will always be here for books about queer girls of color, & the blossoming love b/t Audre & Mabel was magical & beautiful. Also liked how the storyline around Mabel‘s health was handled. But the astrology stuff put me off—I‘ve had too many negative experiences w/ppl because of it. Plus...it‘s bunk. I had no problem w/the dialect being used, but I know some Trinidadian readers took issue with the rep. And the ending was weird & very abrupt. 3/5 ⭐️

And this is why I've always got a paper book and a kindle book going... rather than risk dropping a book on this clingy cutie, I'm starting the tagged book on my kindle 🤣🤣🤣
Btw it is entirely too warm in my house to have a child sleeping on me 🤦‍♀️

I remember how me mother was upset when Queenie first started taking yoga with Sarya, because she say Christ ain‘t “believe” in yoga.

[I don‘t know, I kinda feel like Jesus would‘ve totally been into yoga. He was a long-haired peace-loving hippie dude! 🧘🏽‍♂️]

This cover is too beautiful for words. I‘m a little hesitant b/c I know this book involves a lot of astrology stuff & I don‘t go in for that at all. (And no, I don‘t want to hear about why you think I‘m wrong. You will not change my mind on issues of science& fact.) And I‘ve heard from Trinidadian readers that the rep on that front is questionable. But otherwise it sounds amazing, it‘s about queer girls of color, it‘s gorgeous...gonna give it a go

#qpoc #blacklove #youngadultfiction #heartbreaking This is the type of book I wish was written when I was a teen. The relationship between Mable and Audre was so real. The relationships and family dynamics were real. This story is about friendship, lost, love and family. I highly recommend this book 📚 📖.

Just finished this book and I must say the prose was beautiful from start to finish. 😍

This book was on my TBR for a little while and I expected to enjoy it when I finally read it, but I didn‘t expect how much it would wreck me in terms of connecting to a character trying to figure out their life and identity - in this case a queer identity.

Much like Riot Baby, I‘m still processing my feelings before I let words hit the page, but this is definitely the most connected I‘ve felt to a story so far this year.

My February TBR so far...

I‘m feeling extremely ambitious at the moment, so hopefully everything will align itself in a way that I can actually get through these this month 🤞🏾

(Side note: I didn‘t even recognize the color coordination until I went to arrange them to take this 🙈)

The culture, the love and the strong power of connection written on the pages of this book were so surreal.
Gives such a great understanding of black history and lesbian love you couldn‘t understand unless you were either.
I caught myself crying of joy and sadness from the power this book brought.
I highly recommend ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

New book and puppy snuggles! 🥰

I haven't written anything for Book Riot for so long but I'm back with this list of #QueerBooks! #LGBTQBooks #GayYA https://bookriot.com/2019/09/27/fall-2019-bisexual-and-lesbian-ya/

First up for a late start to #24b4Monday. I have a feeling this is going to ruin me, but I kind of need that right now. I was unceremoniously fired from my job teaching Sunday school because the pastor “wants to go a different direction”.

Sure. Whatever.

After he essentially recruited me, and then never gave me any of the help I asked for.

Tonight‘s read!