Recs if you like Ugly: A Letter to My Daughter...

Fiction and nonfiction talking about the intricacies of queer parenting, children's novels with queer parents, memoirs, and adult fiction. Recs always welcome

A list of nonfiction with LGBTQ+ authors and/or themes, published in 2025-2026, once again shamelessly yoinked from that other reading app that shan't be named.

For many (if not most) people, the term 'mother' feels deeply gendered and carries with it the weight of expectations. However, the queer community has long played with the meaning of 'mother,' from the mothers of ballroom culture to queer family-making to the intersection of mothering and trans parenthood. Mother is, after all, an identity like any other and as such it can be stretched, played with, inverted, and examined.

A bit of history, non-fiction, and possibly fiction if i think it belongs in this list.