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First read for this years Trans Rights Readathon! Open Throat is this beautiful, fucked-up little book by genderfluid writer Henry Hoke, from the POV of an L.A. mountain cat figuring out gender, survival, and the knotty problems of tasty people. It's a funny, heartbreaking, poignant book written in an amazing prose-poem style and I really hope everyone gives it a read!

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the trans rights read-a-thon continues!! today highlighting two trans Canadian authors: Vivek Shraya with She of the Mountains and Hazel Jane Plante’s Any Other City

Trans Rights Read-a-thon 2025 !! 📚🏳️‍⚧️

March 21st-31st is the trans rights read-a-thon, and we’re highlighting a few trans books that are ALWAYS AVAILABLE to checkout from the Queer Liberation Library! that’s right, an unlimited number of people can read these at the same time - no wait, no holds!

first up: we’ve got My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott,

"Part trans woman's coming-out story and part heartfelt romance, My Body Is Distant follows Paige from a childhood obsession with the 1980s game Zork, through a health crisis and divorce, to, ultimately, an affirmation of authenticity and self-love."

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The Trans Rights Readathon is here!

I'll be posting at least one free trans book by a trans author each day of the readathon. In the meantime, here's a list of free books with trans characters to start your readathon! I'll update this pinned post throughout the readathon to show active offers.

Since these books are free, the best way to support the authors is to leave a review if you like the book. Happy reading, and please rec and review!

Free ebooks with trans umbrella characters written by trans umbrella authors:

Blood Samples by Xine Fury - trans woman character and trans man character, trans author

Friend of the Damned by Vincent Lore - trans man character, trans man author

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom: A Transfeminine Anthology - transfeminine characters, transfeminine authors

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy by Transgender Authors - trans authors

Noun of Noun and Adjective by Caledonia Fife - trans woman character, trans woman author

Self-Made by M. Darusha Wehm - trans woman character, agender author

A Strip of Velvet by Rien Gray - nonbinary character, nonbinary author

And other free books for Trans Rights Readathon:

Freebies by Talli L. Morgan on itch.io

Free books available at the Queer Liberation Library posted by @queerliblib

Free and on-sale books compled by @haveyoureadthistransbook

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next up: The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye

an “incisive overview of systemic transphobia” arguing that, “the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice"

Trans Rights Read-a-thon 2025 !! 📚🏳️‍⚧️

March 21st-31st is the trans rights read-a-thon, and we’re highlighting a few trans books that are ALWAYS AVAILABLE to checkout from the Queer Liberation Library! that’s right, an unlimited number of people can read these at the same time - no wait, no holds!

first up: we’ve got My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott,

"Part trans woman's coming-out story and part heartfelt romance, My Body Is Distant follows Paige from a childhood obsession with the 1980s game Zork, through a health crisis and divorce, to, ultimately, an affirmation of authenticity and self-love."

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Trans Rights Read-a-thon starts today!!! 🎉

and we’ve got multiple titles by award-winning Canadian author Casey Plett for you

*important to note that only the audiobooks have unlimited checkouts, we do have ebooks of some of these, but those may have holds.

Trans Rights Read-a-thon 2025 !! 📚🏳️‍⚧️

March 21st-31st is the trans rights read-a-thon, and we’re highlighting a few trans books that are ALWAYS AVAILABLE to checkout from the Queer Liberation Library! that’s right, an unlimited number of people can read these at the same time - no wait, no holds!

first up: we’ve got My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott,

"Part trans woman's coming-out story and part heartfelt romance, My Body Is Distant follows Paige from a childhood obsession with the 1980s game Zork, through a health crisis and divorce, to, ultimately, an affirmation of authenticity and self-love."

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Do you or your followers have recommendations for fantasy romance? Especially written by POC

ooo definitely!

Consecrated Ground by Virginia Black (this one leans more paranormal romance than fantasy romance but I’ve seen it categorized both ways)

Multiple titles by Kalynn Bayron for fairytale inspired YA fantasy romance

Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon (indigenous trans rep w/ reincarnated gods!)

The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson (demigods & necromancy)

Both A Wolf Steps in Blood and The Fall That Saved Us by Tamara Jerée

Fragments of a Fallen Star by Viano Oniomoh (magic & quests across the sea)

The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang (a stonewall honor book 2025)

this is far, far from an exhaustive list! happy reading <3

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Trans Rights Read-a-thon 2025 !! 📚🏳️‍⚧️

March 21st-31st is the trans rights read-a-thon, and we’re highlighting a few trans books that are ALWAYS AVAILABLE to checkout from the Queer Liberation Library! that’s right, an unlimited number of people can read these at the same time - no wait, no holds!

first up: we’ve got My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott,

"Part trans woman's coming-out story and part heartfelt romance, My Body Is Distant follows Paige from a childhood obsession with the 1980s game Zork, through a health crisis and divorce, to, ultimately, an affirmation of authenticity and self-love."

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Hi, what's the best way to ask for a book from the QLL?

Hi! we have an ‘acquisitions request form’ available on our website that we recommend using for requests. While we are delighted to hear about the books you love and will consider adding them to our collection we cannot guarantee that every request will result in the purchase of a specific item*.

We also encourage our patrons to use the ’notify me’ tag feature on libby. We are able to see those tags from the back end, and we do use them to inform purchasing decisions as well!

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Started using phone time to read library ebooks instead of scrolling and it’s made me back into the crazy voracious reader I was at age 12. i’ve been averaging a book a day this week. everyone delete your social media and get your ass on libby

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Can you recommend any good polyamorous family books for kids? The only one I've been able to find anywhere is A Color Named Love, which is excellent but I'd like more

hello! we’d definitely recommend And That’s Their Family! by Kailee Coleman and Jamie Malone (illustrator). Unfortunately it’s not available via OverDrive/Libby so it’s not a book we’ll be able to add to our collection.

Else-Marie and Her Seven Little Daddies by Gabrielle Charbonnet and Pija Lindenbaum could also be an option. There’s also Raf and the Robots by Sarah J. Corner & Kia Maddock (Illustrator) - story focuses on the Raf but there are three adults in the family!

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Irish? Queer? we’ve got books for you

Irish authors, settings (or both!), with a St. Patricks’ Day romance thrown in - all available at the Queer Liberation Library!

Books pictured are listed below, and there are more in the list in our collection if you click through!

Some Integrity by Padraig Regan (multi-award winning irish poetry, queerness as a way of looking)

In the Name of Love: the movement for Marriage Equality in Ireland by Una Mullally (what it says on the tin)

Moments of Glad Grace by Alison Wearing (ultimately a family story, exploring ancestral connections to Ireland and a daughter’s relationship with her aging father)

All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue (teens, tarot, and catholic school)

Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary (young friendship in 1980’s Dublin)

Lucky to Be Yours by Shannon O’Connor (fun F/F rom-com!)

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book that feature assassinations (and/or) stabbing

for no particular reason, today, march 15th ...

Assassin’s Kiss by Emery Rachelle

A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair

Mask of Shadows by Linsey Miller

The Kill Club by Wendy Heard

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are y’all getting ready for the trans rights readathon 2025?!?!?! as it gets closer we’ll be posting some of the trans books we have in our collection that unlimited! simultaneous! library users can check out from QLL <3 🏳️‍⚧️

link to the carrd with more info and a sign up link (graphics are by @transrightsreadathon on instagram)

Trans Rights Readathon 2025 - March 21st-31st

I learned about this last year and I'm happy it's happening again this year! let's read some books by trans & genderqueer authors together!

apart from reading you can participate by

donating to an organisation who push fot trans rights (especially small local groups!) or individual fundraisers to support a local trans/genderqueer person

amplifying trans & genderqueer voices by posting about which books by trans & genderqueer authors you read and leaving reviews (and positive comments on publisher's posts about releases)

buying your books by trans & genderqueer authors from queer indie bookshops or directly from the authors

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we don’t quite have all of them (yet) but we’ve got lots of the winners and honor titles available here!

queer (award winning) books! for free!

Stonewall Book Awards Nonfiction Winners 2025-1971

Some years had multiple nonfiction winners. How many have you read?

Sex With a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery by Annie Liontas (Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster LLC)

Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H (The Dial Press)

The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan (Bold Type Books)

Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili (Little Puss Press)

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi (Riverhead Books)

Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games by Bonnie Ruberg (they/them) (Duke University Press)

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones (Simon & Schuster)

Go the Way Your Blood Beats by Michael Amherst (London: Repeater Press)

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community by John Chaich and Todd Oldham (Los Angeles: Ammo Books)

How to Survive a Plague: The inside story of how citizens and science tamed AIDS, by David France (New York: Alfred A. Knopf)

Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial, by Kenji Yoshino (New York: Crown Publishers)

Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle (New York: New York University Press)

American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men, by David McConnell (New York : Akashic Books)

Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son, by Lori Duron (New York: Broadway Books, an imprint of Crown Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc.)

For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough: Coming of Age, Coming Out, and Coming Home, edited by Keith Boykin (New York : Magnus Books)

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, by Jonathan D. Katz and David C. Ward (Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books)

A Queer History of the United States (Revisioning American History), by Michael Bronski (Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press)

Inseparable: Desire between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue, (Knopf)

Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America by Nathaniel Frank, (St. Martin's Press)

Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr., (Viking)

Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty, (HarperCollins)

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, (Houghton Mifflin)

The fabulous Sylvester: the legend, the music, the seventies in San Francisco by Joshua Gamson, (H. Holt)

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and in People by Joan Roughgarden, (University of California Press)

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D'Emilio, (Free Press)

How Sex Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States by Joanne Meyerowitz, ( Harvard University Press)

The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin, a Literary Life Shattered by Scandal by Barry Werth, (Nan A. Talese)

Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet by William N. Eskridge, (Harvard University Press)

My Lesbian Husband: Landscape of a Marriage by Barrie Jean Borich, (Greywolf Press)

Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America by Sarah Schulman, (Duke University Press)

The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People by Adam Mastoon, (William Morrow and Co./Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books)

Geography of the Heart: A Memoir by Fenton Johnson, (Scribner)

Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation by Urvashi Vaid, (Anchor Books)

Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature Dorothy Allison, (Firebrand Books)

Uncommon Heroes: A Celebration of Heroes and Role Models for Gay and Lesbian Americans by Phillip Sherman and Samuel Bernstein, (Fletcher Press)

Family Values: Two Moms and Their Son by Phyllis Burke, (Random House)

Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 by Eric Marcus, (HarperCollins)

Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America by Lillian Faderman, (Columbia University Press)

Encyclopedia of Homosexuality edited by Wayne Dynes, (Garland)

In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Change by Neil Miller, (Atlantic Monthly Press)

A Restricted Country by Joan Nestle, (Firebrand Books)

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts, (St. Martin's Press)

The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture by Walter Williams, (Beacon Press)

Sex and Germs: The Politics of AIDS by Cindy Patton, (South End Press)

Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds by Judy Grahn, (Beacon Press)

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 by John D'Emilio, (University of Chicago Press)

Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present by Lillian Faderman, (Morrow)

Black Lesbians: An Annotated Bibliography by J.R. Roberts, (Naiad Press)

The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo, (Harper & Row)

The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, (Spinsters, Ink)

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell, (University of Chicago Press)

Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality by Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)

Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book edited by Ginny Vida, (Prentice-Hall)

Familiar Faces, Hidden Lives: The Story of Homosexual Men in America Today by Howard Brown, (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich)

Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History, and Literature edited by Jonathan Katz, (Arno Press) [Series of historically significant reprints]

Sex Variant Women in Literature: A Historical and Quantitative Survey by Jeannette Foster, (Vantage Press)

The Gay Mystique: The Myth and Reality of Male Homosexuality by Peter Fisher, (Stein & Day)

Lesbian/Woman by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (Glide Publications)

A Place for Us by Isabel Miller, (published in October, 1971 by McGraw Hill as Patience and Sarah )

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March is Women’s History Month

and we’ve got booklists for that!

Women’s History Month (feat. titles like Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline Davis, We Walk Alone by Ann Aldrich, To Believe Women by Lillian Faderman, To my Trans Sisters by Charlie Craggs, Drastic Dykes & Accidental Activists by La Shonda Mims, & many more)

Women’s Memoirs (feat. Jeanna Kadlec’s Heratic, Roxanne Gay’s Hunger, Jeanette Winterson’s Why be Happy When You Could be Normal, Lamya H’s Hijab Butch Blues, Carmen Maria Machado’s In The Dream House, Cherrie Morgana’s Native Country of the Heart, & lots more <3)

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In your response to the Notify My If ask, you said you see "all the tags". Is that just the Notify Me If tags, or all of them? Because if it's all of them, this feels like when I found out artists see the names of every Spotify playlist their songs are added to.

by ‘all the tags’ I just meant ‘all the notify me tags’!