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Welcome, wizards and mages! If you loved Harry Potter as a child, here are 10 read-a-likes with queer, transgender, and characters of color. The vibes are: teens and tweens discovering they’re the Chosen One of a prophecy, going to a secret magical academy, and fantastical worlds hidden just beneath our own 🏰🔮🪄
yall have got to be more normal about Southern people and I'm not kidding. enough of the Sweet Home Alabama incest jokes, enough of the idea that all Southerners are bigots and rednecks, and enough of the idea that the South has bad food. shut up about "trailer trash" and our accents and our hobbies!
do yall know how fucking nauseating it is to hear people only bring up my state to make jokes about people in poverty and incestuous relationships? how much shame I feel that I wasn't born up north like the Good Queers and Good Leftists with all the Civilised Folk with actual houses instead of small cramped trailers that have paper thin walls that I know won't protect me in a bad enough storm?
do yall know how frustrating it is to be trans in a place that wants to kill you and whenever you bring it up to people they say "well just move out" instead of sympathizing with you or offering help?
do yall understand how alienating it is to see huge masterposts of queer and mental health resources but none of them are in your state because theyre all up north? and nobody seems to want to fix this glaring issue because "they're all hicks anyways"
Southern people deserve better. we deserve to be taken seriously and given a voice in the queer community and the mental health space and leftist talks in general.
@qbdatabase runs an Oklahoma Queer-Friendly Businesses database (in addition to their main queer books database, which lists 5k books) that has resources for big stuff like healthcare, therapists, churches and synagogues, but also just for regular stuff like “where can I eat and hold hands with my partner” or “I need a mechanic / home repair, who can I trust?”
the main site is qbdatabase.com, then go to More Resources > Community Resouces. (I’ll edit this and link directly when I’m on my laptop)
So if you live in Oklahoma (or nearby) and you need to know where you’ll be safe—or if you just want to scroll through for proof that there ARE safe places in Oklahoma—please check this out!
Welcome to the hunted and the haunted! To celebrate asexual awareness week this October, we've got 10 spooky titles featuring ace characters facing down ghosts, curses, and monsters of all kinds, so grab your candy and set up your strongest wards before you check out these books 🖤🐀💀🔮
Check out these five titles to try next, featuring black teens who learn how to break the universe, save the universe, and do a little--or a whole lot!--of magic along the way 🪄🔮👋🏾
Hi, could you please recommend me bisexual memoirs? I have already read Boyslut btw. Thank you!
Memoirs by Bisexual Female Authors
Memoirs by Bisexual Male Authors
Memoirs by Bisexual Nonbinary Authors
Do you guys have any more intersex rep books? There's only like 5 on here and it's hard to find anything ;w;
Main Characters:
Side Characters / World Building:
Book bans are on the rise across the US, but even if you want to go read and buy as many books with LGBT+ representation as you can get your greedy little hands on--it's hard to know what you don't know :/
The Queer Books Database lists over 3,500+ fiction and non-fiction titles in a google docs spreadsheet that lets you search by representation, or just by age, genre, year published, and more. It doesn't just track LGBT+ rep but also tags for people of color, disability, mental health, neurodivergence, fat rep, older characters, and religion!
You can use the database to search for:
Using the database, supporting my patreon, or buying me a ko-fi also really helps out the autistic transgender librarian who put this all together during the pandemic! Please share and reblog if you can~
need more queer books in your life? mad at all the book bans? wish you could read books about people actually like you?
the Queer Books Database is a free, online searchable database that lists queer rep in over 2,500 fiction and 500 non-fiction books! you can filter by age, genre, year, and specific identity–including race, disability, mental illness, and neurodivergence
here’s some ideas of what you can search for:
check with your local library to find these titles or ask about Inter-Library Loans to grab one from a library nearby! this really helps support libraries, authors, and me, an autistic transgender librarian :)
need more queer books in your life? mad at all the book bans? wish you could read books about people actually like you?
the Queer Books Database is a free, online searchable database that lists queer rep in over 2,500 fiction and 500 non-fiction books! you can filter by age, genre, year, and specific identity--including race, disability, mental illness, and neurodivergence
here’s some ideas of what you can search for:
check with your local library to find these titles or ask about Inter-Library Loans to grab one from a library nearby! this really helps support libraries, authors, and me, an autistic transgender librarian :)
I had a bad day at work so I made a reading list called Be Gay Do Crime to cheer myself up
here’s the link to the list I made with my library website that has 73 books and counting. I’ll update it with more books and descriptions for each book of what LGBT+ characters they have over the next few days
I had a bad day at work so I made a reading list called Be Gay Do Crime to cheer myself up
here’s the link to the list I made with my library website that has 73 books and counting. I’ll update it with more books and descriptions for each book of what LGBT+ characters they have over the next few days
links to Asexual / Aromantic, Bisexual / Pansexual, Gay (mlm), and Lesbian sheets
TCCL stands for Tulsa City-County Library, in Oklahoma. These reference sheets list the books physically available (not including ebooks only) at the 24 library locations in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For folks outside of this range, I suggest double-checking your local libraries, as well as the apps OverDrive, Hoopla, and YourCloudLibrary!
An online version of this list can be found at https://bit.ly/2lujZLR. This goodreads shelf includes ebooks, new releases, and books not available at the library! It also features a notes section that specifies which character is trans / non-binary / genderfluid / intersex / etc, their exact identity if stated in the text, and whether they are a main or side character.
In the shelf list along the left side of the page, you can also find shelves for other LGBT+ identities, as well as books featuring characters that are disabled, fat, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and people of color. All the books are cross-tagged, so a book featuring a black disabled trans woman would appear in the shelves named disabled, POC, and transgender.
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links to Asexual / Aromantic, Bisexual / Pansexual, Gay (mlm), Transgender / Non-Binary sheets
TCCL stands for Tulsa City-County Library, in Oklahoma. These reference sheets list the books physically available (not including ebooks only) at the 24 library locations in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For folks outside of this range, I suggest double-checking your local libraries, as well as the apps OverDrive, Hoopla, and YourCloudLibrary!
An online version of this list can be found at https://bit.ly/2ktoGFt. This goodreads shelf includes ebooks, new releases, and books not available at the library! It also features a notes section that specifies which character is a lesbian, their exact identity if stated in the text, and whether they are a main or side character.
In the shelf list along the left side of the page, you can also find shelves for other LGBT+ identities, as well as books featuring characters that are disabled, fat, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and people of color. All the books are cross-tagged, so a book featuring a black disabled trans woman would appear in the shelves named disabled, POC, and transgender.
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links to Asexual / Aromantic, Bisexual / Pansexual, Lesbian, Transgender / Non-Binary sheets
TCCL stands for Tulsa City-County Library, in Oklahoma. These reference sheets list the books physically available (not including ebooks only) at the 24 library locations in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For folks outside of this range, I suggest double-checking your local libraries, as well as the apps OverDrive, Hoopla, and YourCloudLibrary!
An online version of this list can be found at https://bit.ly/2kq4tjP. This goodreads shelf includes ebooks, new releases, and books not available at the library! It also features a notes section that specifies which character is gay, their exact identity if stated in the text, and whether they are a main or side character.
In the shelf list along the left side of the page, you can also find shelves for other LGBT+ identities, as well as books featuring characters that are disabled, fat, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and people of color. All the books are cross-tagged, so a book featuring a black disabled trans woman would appear in the shelves named disabled, POC, and transgender.
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links to Asexual / Aromantic, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender / Non-Binary sheets
TCCL stands for Tulsa City-County Library, in Oklahoma. These reference sheets list the books physically available (not including ebooks only) at the 24 library locations in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For folks outside of this range, I suggest double-checking your local libraries, as well as the apps OverDrive, Hoopla, and YourCloudLibrary!
An online version of this list can be found at https://bit.ly/2kqkA0E. This goodreads shelf includes ebooks, new releases, and books not available at the library! It also features a notes section that specifies which character is bisexual or pansexual, their exact identity if stated in the text, and whether they are a main or side character.
In the shelf list along the left side of the page, you can also find shelves for other LGBT+ identities, as well as books featuring characters that are disabled, fat, mentally ill, neurodivergent, and people of color. All the books are cross-tagged, so a book featuring a black disabled trans woman would appear in the shelves named disabled, POC, and transgender.
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links to Bisexual / Pansexual, Gay (mlm), Lesbian, Transgender / Non-Binary sheets
TCCL stands for Tulsa City-County Library, in Oklahoma. These reference sheets list the books physically available (not including ebooks only) at the 24 library locations in Tulsa, Oklahoma. For folks outside of this range, I suggest double-checking your local libraries, as well as the apps OverDrive, Hoopla, and YourCloudLibrary!
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