queer book club

Hello! Perhaps unsurprisingly if you’ve been following for a while, this blog is defunct. I had already been slowing down posts due to other stuff going on in my life and then stopped using tumblr entirely when they started censoring sexual content.

If you have sent a message that went unanswered, sorry. Tumblr does not label them with the date sent (wild), so I have NO idea how long they’ve been there and which ones are still relevant. I’ll be closing the askbox today.

Thanks for reading!

Anonymous asked: Hi! My niece’s birthday is coming up and I’m trying to find some books/comics/graphic novels for a 13/14 year old baby queer. Do you have any suggestions?

Hiya! Apologies to everyone with unanswered questions in my inbox - I have my fingers in a lot of pies these days and this blog is on semi-hiatus. But I have a few minutes today, it is an awesome time for all-ages queer-positive comics and graphic novels (and I’m actually well-read in them), so I’m going to shout out a few of my favorites!

• The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag (with forthcoming sequel in October!)
  
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang
• The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill (by the same creator: Princess Princess Ever After, and the forthcoming Aquicorn Cove)
• Moonstruck, Volume 1: Magic to Brew by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
• Lumberjanes, Volume 1: Beware the Kitten Holy by Noelle Stevenson, Shannon Waters, and Brooklyn Allen (there are a lot more volumes of Lumberjanes already out, and they’re all fabulous - plus a chapter book by Mariko Tamaki and a forthcoming standalone graphic novel by Lilah Sturges and polterink!)

If your niece is a Steven Universe fan, there’s also some good comics and graphic novels based on the show. I have not read the Backstagers comics, but I hear great things about them. In young teen/pre-teen friendly prose novels, I can recommend George by Alex Gino.

Feel free to reblog with more suggestions, and happy reading y’all!

Hey all! I’m popping in for a quick spell of self-promotion. A short story by me (“What Cheer”) is featured in Topside Press’s new spec-fic anthology, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers!


I’m very proud of my part in this book (which would not have been possible without the assistance of two truly amazing editors, Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick) and I’m so excited to see it find its readers. It’s got some glowing reviews and features fantastic writers who may be familiar to you, such as Ryka Aoki, Imogen Binnie, Jeanne Thornton, Dane Figueroa Edidi, Trish Salah - plus lots of new voices to discover.

You can order it in print now at Topside Press’s website!

It’s also the Progressive Pick of the Week at Truthout, which means you can make a donation and buy a copy of Meanwhile Elsewhere at the same time!

*blows dust off of queerbookclub*

uh, hey guys. rough year amIright

Anyway, I thought I should pop in and let you all know finalists for the 2017 Lambda Literary Awards were announced today. See the full list here.

I think the only one I have read is even this page is white by Vivek Shraya, which was phenomenal and I highly recommend. But it looks like a great list of work overall - congrats to all the finalists!

As for this blog, I’ll try to get back to posting the monthly publishing roundups, at the very least. Thanks for hanging around and, as always, happy reading.