Recs if you like Tomboy Survival Guide...

❌ online discourse, ✔️ holistic knowledge fiction & non-fiction that will deepen your understanding of sapphism, its language/label evolution, and its intersections with bipoc, gender diversity and bisexuality. (please note “lesbian” terminology was originally an expansive umbrella openly inclusive of fluid sapphics when many books were published, and not all identify as specifically/exclusively wlw!)

memoirs, anthologies, graphic novels etc. - anything goes as long as it's nonfiction about the trans & queer experience

stone butch blues is not the only book about butches!!!!

I don't resonate with most sapphic reading lists, so here is one for dykes instead

both nonfiction and fiction about being genderqueer, nonbinary, genderfluid, bigender etc

I thought it would be nice to have all of them in one long list.

Queer Canadian archive and activism

I wish we could make communal lists, because this would be a helpful one to be able to ask others to contribute to

here are some books that hooked me easily when i was getting into reading nonfiction. Many memoirs but also less academic/more personal/humorous feminist lit and queer theory :3