Queer Page-a-Day
I work at a Queer Resource Center with a sizable collection of queer books.
Unfortunately, most are out of print, unavailable, unknown, or had very short print runs. I doubt many will ever be digitized.
Since I can't post entire books, I will be posting one random page a day from a random book on a shelf.
Non-fiction, fiction, YA, Children's - any genre is welcome, as long as the theme is (or relates) to queer.
Please submit a page or excerpt of a book you think should be posted. :)
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If you’re in NYC on May 13, come celebrate Sarah Schulman’s novel Empathy, our April book club pick, with the author and Barbara Browning, who’s also the author of two Emily Books picks. We’re also thrilled to be cohosting the event with literary event crowdfunding resource Togather, which is buying everyone’s first drink (Thanks, Togather!)
By posing a big, unanswerable question we hope to spark a conversation that will leave everyone with more questions. We’re also excited to host a conversation between two novelists who, in very different ways, dazzle and tantalize readers and provoke lingering thoughts about identity.
We hope to see you there, and if you can’t make it, we’ll catch you up afterwards right here!Super-excited about this, mark it on your calendar in PEN.
Hahaha oh, the beautiful irony. This book is great.
The Kickstarter for Anything That Loves is now live! What!
A comics anthology examining the world outside of “gay” and “straight,” between a 0 and 6 on the Kinsey scale. It needs your help to get printed! Comics about sexual confusion? Come on, tumblr: this is your raison d’être.
Also: My art is in it! A whole bunch of my comics on bisexuality (which I am redrawing especially for this collection) and sexual orientation will be peppered throughout. Also features art by personal heroes Erika Moen and Ellen Forney.
Check it out! I’m very excited to be part of this project.
HOLY SHIT-LOVING JESUS
COMICS EXPLORING SEXUALITY ETC
WHY AM I SO BROKE
EVERYONE FUND THIS KICKSTARTER
The brand new What I LOVE about being QUEER BOOK is officially available online here. Check out the new book teaser (featuring the book designer / cutie Karen Campos!)
The book features over 100 answers, including from Tegan Quin (Tegan and Sara) & Sook-Yin Lee (CBC Radio One), and essays by Lambda-award winning author Farzana Doctor & Elisha Lim. And so much more, including SOME OF YOU.
All proceeds will go to the George Brown College Positive Space Award for LGBTQ students demonstrating leadership in the classroom and community.
SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OF YOU. For submitting your beautiful words and photos, and for reblogging/hearting. This book wouldn’t be possible without you.
You are what I love about being queer <3
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Even if it’s just a reblog, it will really help guys!!!!! Trying to get as much spotlight on this as possible.
Black queer women trying to get their thing funded? CLEARLY I need to reblog this for my followers!!!!
This is the first I’ve ever heard of Elixher, sounds cool. Looks hip.
LGBTQ* Comic Artists You May Be Interested In
Erika Moen - artist/writer
Some of Erika’s illustrations/dialogue is NSFW. Please be advised. Also, some of Tumblr has been really harsh about Erika’s marriage to a cisman and her views of queer politics. If you would like to hear some responses to Erika’s work within the comic industry and her feelings about sexuality as it evolves, I highly recommend watching her visit to Yale video below.
Some of Erika’s Work:Five bright bold beautiful queer books coming this spring! Marco Impossible by Hannah Maskowitz, Freak of Nurture by Kelli Dunham, What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution by Shiri Eisner, and Nevada by Imogen Binnie.
Apparently today is Tell a Fairy Tale Day. Might I suggest a few queer fairy tales?
Ash by Malinda Lo
Tithe by Holly Black
Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue
So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction edited by Steve Berman
Blood and Iron by Elizabeth BearLast year, a kid at work asked me to buy Världens viktigaste bok (“The World’s Most Important Book”). I looked it up and promptly bought it. Since then, it has been constantly lended out or in reservations, and only now have I had the opportunity to take it home and share a few pictures.
Sex ed books always get a dual reaction from the kids: “Ew, that’s gross!” and “Can I borrow it?” - quite often both from the same kid. :-) This has proven more popular than any of the others, which gladdens me, because it’s so good. It’s not just “Let’s tell the kids the basics about reproduction so they don’t get a shock when they enter puberty.” It’s “Let’s tell the kids everything we wish that we had been told in middle school.”
As you can tell from the pictures, it takes care to include a variety of bodies and sexual orientations. It also questions gender roles, portraying both the “factory” where boy things and girl things are packed into neat boxes, and the kids outside the factory trading with each other. The text is much the same. Take this excerpt, for instance:
“Many people who have a vagina feel like girls, and many who have a penis feel like boys. But it’s not always true. Sometimes the body doesn’t fit with how you feel. You can have a boy body but feel like a girl. Or have a girl body but feel like a boy. Your body doesn’t decide who you are, you decide it for yourself. You’re the one who knows if you’re a girl or a boy. Some people don’t feel like they’re boys or girls at all. Maybe you feel like both, or something else entirely. Or you don’t want to choose. There aren’t always words to fit with what you’re feeling, but that doesn’t make the feeling less true.”
The kids at work are conservative, as kids often are. (They have questioned both the fact that I’m still single, and the somewhat androgynous way I dress.) But they’re reading this stuff, in the library, in the classroom, at home. The school nurse, too, has recommended it as reading. I have every hope that for at least some of them, the message will be received.can make a french title if you can ? please ? :3asked by millinerxiii
answer:
- Certainement! J’ai besoin d’aller à la bibliothèque, mais je peux le mercredi. Desolé je ne met pas à jour, j’ai besoin de travailler souvent. (Je ne parle pas le français bien, j’espère ce message est lisible. Et j’espere j’ai compris ton message?)
- Certainly! I need to go to the library, but I can on Wednesday. Sorry I don’t update, I work often. (I don’t speak French well, I hope this message is readable. And I hope I understood your message?)
Pamhinta X: Mga Nagbabagang Sanaysay - Louie Cano
Le Gay Pouvoir: Enquete Sur La Republique bleu blanc rose - Yves Derai
SQ21: Singapore Queers in the 21st Century - Ng Yi-Sheng, edited by Jason Wee
Norsk Homoforskning - Marianne Brantsaeter, Turid Eikvam, Reijer Kjaer, Knut Olav Amas
Chasing Adonis: Gay Men and the Pursuit of Perfection, by Tim Bergling
