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Trans Rights Readathon Suggestions (masterlist)
Reading suggestions for the Trans Rights Readathon! (Any year of course). Books with trans characters of any label (or any non-cis gender identity) by trans/non-cis authors. I have not read all the books in this list. Feel free to name your fave books by trans authors in the comments!
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Trans Masc fiction
Fiction reads with trans masc characters and/or by trans masc authors
See my trans Rights readathon suggestions masterlist for more trans reads! ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
(Under construction ๐ ๐ง many more books to be added! Suggestions welcome!)
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๐ณ๏ธโ๐Queer Graphic Novels+๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
LGBT*+ graphic novels / comics / manga +
Fluff to smut, including 18+ etc aka not exclusive to anything specific other than being queer content (queer & queer-rep inclusive stories). I have read a good handful of the ones now at the bottom of the list. Includes intended middle-grade-ish-level youth content to adult audience content.
In progress / updated over time
(recs highly welcome) Attempting a highly exhaustive list.
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Graphic Medicine
Graphic Medicine isโฆ (an actual term) graphic novels, manga, comics, and visual representation engaging with health and healthcare - from health diagrams visual pamphlets to a graphic novel including health story or rep.
Note: I have NOT read all of these. Itโs more a collection of a genre than intended as a recommendation. Do your research! :)
Mostly adult, YA, MG, and some other youth/ all ages titles
In-progress / updated over time Reccomendations welcome
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So you watched I Saw the TV Glow
& now you're having some complicated feelings about gender. Books full of characters who come to terms with themselves. Recs welcome, per usual.
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transmasc (graphic novels)
any age group and genre, including nonfiction; main and (important) side characters who are trans For novels I have separate lists sorted by age group: transmasc (middle grade), transmasc (YA) and transmasc (adult).
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Sexuality, Perversion, Beauty - An Exploration
Exploration on /Challenging whats considered: natural, normal, beautiful, perverse, disgusting, sexual, taboo More ideally (but not limited to) authors relating the topics to themselves/their experiences Hoping to include plenty of intersectionalities (disability, race, etc)/
RECOMMENDATIONS WELCOME / ENCOURAGED ๐๐ป โจ Currently Hoping to stick to Adult-Audience Titles (Fiction, Nonfiction (auto)biographical, poetry, maybe graphic novels [on that i haven't decided]) :)
๐ซฃ๐๐๐ณ๐๐๐๐ฅต๐๐๐ซฆ๐คซ๐ซข๐ โผ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ ๏ธโ๏ธโฟ๏ธโงโฒโฌโ๏ธโ๏ธโพ๏ธฯ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโง๏ธโฟ๏ธโจ๐ท๐พ๐ชขโ๏ธ๐ ๐ค TRYING TO PICK THE BEST EMOJIS IS HARD - HELP.
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Trans Horror in Graphic Novels
General warning for gender dysphoria ๐ซก
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Weird Queer Graphics
Weird, unusual or trippy queer graphic novels. Most of these also have unique illustrations
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queer fantasy graphic novels
queer graphic novels set in a non-contemporary world that i'd recommend to everyone and their pets โจ
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Trans graphic novels
Graphic novels & comics featuring trans (including non-binary) characters!
Recommendations welcome!
โฆ I have not read all of these books - if you notice anything that seems to be mis-labeled/mis-placed on this list, please let me know! โฆ
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Queerness Is A Body Of Water
Queerness + Water
Queer stories that have scenes with water, water as a theme, etc.
The intimacy of nude swimming, water encasing the body, the way a river flows and connects to other bodies of water, the life that lives in its depths, the fact we have not descovered much of the ocean which holds secrets we cannot reachโฆwater is a queer thing, and a theme found continually in queer stories both minutely and wholly encompassing
Adult-audience fiction mostly, some mature YA
Recs welcome!
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queer graphicomanga !
lgbt+ graphic novels, comics & manga
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Queer Weird (Nature/Horror/Fantasyโฆ)
Weird queer titles including (but not limited to one or all): nature components, body horror, horror and/or fantasy. General / adult fiction mostly
I have read most of these titles
In progress/ updated over time Recommendations welcome!!
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Trans Fantasy Books
Fantasy books that feature a main character who is trans. I have not read all books on list so feel free to inform me if I've miscategorized or suggest books I should add.
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acid books
books that make you feel like youโre on drugs, while also feeling like you should be taking drugs to properaly appreciate the book or the โwtf is going onโ books
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Take Me Back to the Wasteland
Books with similar themes to the Fallout series: critiquing rampant American consumerism and greed; deconstructing 1950s-era conservatism; post-apocalyptic road trip; man vs. God; long-term effects of authoritarianism; morally gray choices or โmorally grayโ choices; being locked inside underground (or in space) indefinitely; retro-futuristic technology; nuclear weapons and fallout; cosmic horror; or, ultimately, being the baddest motherfucker with a baseball bat.
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