pickVery colourful, very fast read. Perfect for people who don't read that much. So if you want to educate your friends or family about non-binary identities, this is the book to go to. Aloks takes the most famous arguments against non-binary people and breaks them down. Not a lot of new stuff for me, but definitely an important book 🏳️🌈
I got to meet this amazing soul last night at the opening event for my local book festival!!
pickMore satire and less horror than I expected, this was painfully real in its portrayal of immature tech bro masculinity and so-called allies who can't be bothered to get something as simple as someone's pronouns right. It had me cringing. I loved Sammie as a character and the art style was fun! #TransBooks #QueerBooks #HorrorBooks
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I think this is an important book, the messy emotions and queer family structure highlighted are all true, but I struggled with it a bit. Accepting the decisions the three of them had come to was … I didn‘t really believe it.
I saw myself a lot in Ames, their trauma, struggles with dissociation. It was hard to sit with and see on the page. I‘m not trans, but as a queer person I struggled a lot.
#readyoukindle
#lgbtqbookbingo2024
pickI'd be surprised if the first words that come to mind have not been used many times before to descirbe this work: Powerful, heartbreaking, infuriating, a nuanced and needed perspective, a must read.
It is enervating that the battle for transgender people to be seen, respected, understood, fully embraced, needs to continue in the face of much prejudice and hate, but I'm glad to experience such a vital voice as Vivek's pushing the conversation 1/?
#WhereAreYouMonday takes me to my current home city of NYC! I love reading about where I live or where I‘m going to travel.
The familiarity of the place and feeling you get when you have a deeper understanding of a place is something I love.
Back on the train for an hour on the way to New Haven!
This has been on my kindle for a while so started it this morning!
pickKai Cheng Thom's collection of essays displays her trademark combination of searing intellect and critical thinking with deep empathy and compassion. I admire her work so much! She discusses and unpacks a lot of issues inside leftist and queer social justice communities, from #MeToo, suicide, activists' tendency to demand perfection and correct rhetoric over learning and inclusion, white queers asking for her "trans ethnic story," and more. ?
Halloween season TBR! 🎃👻🏚
I'm thinking of starting Boys Weekend first, since it's a graphic novel and from the library
The middle book is Withered, by A.G.A. Wilmot, a queer psychological horror about a haunted house and small town.
On the lighter side, If I Stopped Haunting You by Colby Wilkens is an enemies to lovers story set in a spooky Scottish castle with bi+ Indigenous characters!
#Horror #QueerHorror #Romantsy
