Queer New Releases
Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati
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New Releases Tagged "Queer"
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I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging.
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― The Argonauts
― The Argonauts
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Gay kids aren’t a “plot point� that you can play with. Gay kids are real, actual kids, teenagers, growing up into awesome adults, and they don’t have the books they need to reflect that. Growing up, my nose was constantly stuck in a book. Growing up as a lesbian, I was told over and over and over by the lack of gayness in said books that I did not exist. That I wasn’t important enough to tell stories about. That I was invisible. Why are we telling our kids this? Why are we telling them that they
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Let's recommend to each other and talk about Queer Jewish books! Nonfiction and fiction welcome.…more
8 members,
last active 9 months ago
A book group for reading sapphic books and connecting over our often-obscure favorites! At least…more
6,370 members,
last active 4 days ago
Join the Eerie Inklings in our venture to read books in the horror genre with queer representati…more
150 members,
last active 4 months ago
yes, i love reading books, no i'm not reading any
(a fun, no pressure, low-key space for reader…more
3 members,
last active 9 months ago
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