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I didn't read every country in the Western Hemisphere, but did pretty well this year! Lots of new knowledge and insights! Thank you @BarbaraBB and @LibraryBelle for this year's #ReadingtheAmericas2023!

This was excellent: a narrative of an emerging trans woman who becomes a sex trade worker and finds a community of others, led by a unbelievably older woman and adopting a baby boy. It really brings to life, the strength of the community, including both the love, and the pain That exist there as well as the phobias that tried to crush sex work and trans people.
#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Argentina

We called them [cis gay men] “The Crows” because they liked to scavenge alongside us. But we knew that we‘d never really know why they came. What could possibly be the attraction of a motley troubled pack like ours made up of street girls, runaways.We mistrusted them even more for their double male lives. Their ease highlighted our discomfort: we‘d never had the chance to hide in the closet in the first place. We were born out of the closet.

I made this quiz for Autostraddle and it was really fun to write and research! The eight books/authors are from Japan, Argentina, Iran, Korea, Brazil, Iceland, Canada, and the Dominican Republic, writing in lots of different genres/forms, like manga, science fiction, thrillers, coming of age, and magical realism. Let me know which book you got if you take the quiz! https://www.autostraddle.com/quiz-what-queer-book-in-translation-should-you-read...