Recs if you like My Body Unspooling...

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!

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.

Graphic Medicine is… (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. It’s 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

I have spent years curating a list of graphic novels for myself on goodreads and I thought this place would be great to share it and share my love for graphic novels. I’m not picky about the plot or topics of the graphic novels I read so the list is pretty much any graphic novel I have heard of regardless of topic. Many are middle grade or young adult as is the general trend of the format but recommendations for more (especially adult) would be greatly appreciated.

Also manga is not included.

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 🙏🏻 ✨ Currently Hoping to stick to Adult-Audience Titles (Fiction, Nonfiction (auto)biographical, poetry, maybe graphic novels [on that i haven't decided]) :)

🫣👀🔞😳😏😈😜🥵🖕💋🫦🤫🫢💅‼️🏳️‍🌈⚠️⁉️♿︎⚧⚲⚬♀︎♂︎♾️π🏳️‍⚧️⚧️♿️⚨🐷🐾🪢⛓️👠🤐 TRYING TO PICK THE BEST EMOJIS IS HARD - HELP.

Queer (and / or Trans*) poets

In-progress/Updated over time Recommendations highly welcomed! Seeking intersectional works esp.

Single work per author listed (unless an anthology of multiple authors works)

General warning for gender dysphoria 🫡

lgbt+ graphic novels, comics & manga

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!!

books that make you feel like you’re on drugs, while also feeling like you should be taking drugs to properaly appreciate the book or the “wtf is going on” books

Mostly literary and speculative fiction (there may be an exception or 2) that left me thinking about it until it took up permanent residence in my mind. Please leave any recommendations based on this list in the comments!