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ooh if you don't already have them, i suggest Cam Girl and Black Iris by Elliot Wake (FKA Leah Raeder)

we’ve already got Black Iris in our wishlists! hopefully we’ll be able to buy it one day

but it looks like Cam Girl isn’t available on overdrive/libby :/

(fyi the best/easiest way for us to keep track of what folks are interested in is by placing ‘notify me’ tags on books you’re interested in - we do see those on our end!)

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My friends just published a Trans History graphic novel and I thought I'd share here in case anyone would like to preorder a copy from their favorite local bookseller!

https://www.candlewick.com/9781536244175/trans-history-a-graphic-novel-from-ancient-times-to-the-present-day/

fun! we’ve put it in our wishlists

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Hello. First of all, thanks for your service as a platform to promote these kind of material.

My question is a bit tricky. On second year of college, a teacher recommended us if we wanted to go deeper into gender studies, she recommended a Spanish (although I'm not sure if he is from Spain at this point) writter. The problem is that I don't really remember his last name to read his works now that I have time, was something like "Manzanero" or "Manzano", but then again I've been looking for almost a year with no satisfactory results.

If you have no leads on this, can you please recommend some gender studies over pansexual and aro/ace people? Thank you so much for reading and for your work!

any chance it’s Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz?

for your second question, here are a few!

Ace: what asexuality reveals about desire, society, and the meaning of sex by Angela Chen

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: a black asexual lens on our sex-obsessed culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Ace and Aro Journeys from the Ace and Aro Advocacy Project

Bisexual and Pansexual Identities by Nikki Hayfield

if you’re interested in more queer theory in general, or more academically-leaning non-fiction check out our non-fiction guide & lists like ‘let’s get studious’!

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I’m not going to link them all because there are so many, but a BUNCH of these are available through us at the Queer Liberation Library! <3

December is Disability Awareness Month, and so here are some great books with disabled leads. There's contemporary, fantasy, graphic novels, and two pages for historicals because we all know I can't restrain myself when it comes to them.

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HAPPENING TODAY! JSYK

UPDATES IN PROGRESS

The Library will be down for approximately two hours tomorrow (12/16), beginning at 12 pm EST. If you’re a member, check the email you use for QLL for more information & next steps

[queerliblib]

UPDATES IN PROGRESS

The Library will be down for approximately two hours tomorrow (12/16), beginning at 12 pm EST. If you’re a member, check the email you use for QLL for more information & next steps

[queerliblib]

Do you have any recommendations for queer horror? I love Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M Danforth, but trying to hunt down others has been hard. Thank you!

oh I literally *just* finished reading that!

we sure do. we’ve got a whole guide for genre fiction, & within it you’ll find lists for queer horror, thrillers, monsters, & more!

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Do you know of any other free online libraries like yours? I love QLL So Much and I would love to be able to expand my book possibilities even more :) They don’t have to be queer focused - anything is good! (Of course i’m also signed up w my local library which is great and has a good-size selection, but sometimes holds are very long)

one of the reasons we exist is because there isn’t anyone else doing exactly what we do!

there are quite a few other brick & mortar queer libraries scattered across the continent but most don’t have that digital presence (unless you’re in Minnesota! if so, check out Quatrefoil). there are also a LOT of regular libraries with digital collections on Libby or Hoopla - some public libraries have really specific residency requirements to be a member, others have some flexibility (reddit is actually a font of knowledge if you’re exploring this - r/audiobooks or r/libby to start). If you already have a public library card, there are also a lot of resource-sharing initiatives out there between libraries that you may be eligible for - for example MeL in michigan, or the Brooklyn Public Library’s Books UnBanned initiative if you meet their age window, or if you have any connections to an academic library InterLibraryLoan (ILL) - even if you’re not a student/faculty/staff some colleges/universities have ‘community user’ policies you could explore. you can always walk into your library and ask a library worker if your local system is connected to anything like this (they will be THRILLED to answer that question, let me tell you).

I’d also strongly encourage you to go absolutely hog wild on Open Access resources like Project Gutenberg, which has a ton of amazing things in the public domain. also the directory of open access books or world digital library for the more academically inclined.

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<3 <3 <3

yes we’re in the business of QUEER BOOKS, FOR FREE

(and by god, do the people have tremendous literary appetites)

I have had this on hold for 9 MONTHS and let me tell you I screamed a SCREAM when I got the notification that it was available --

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we have seen it! Big fans.

libraries 🤝 park services

So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service. 

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okay so I know hockey pulled ahead here to claim the title but I do have to pour one out for our beautiful 3rd place finisher curling and these incredible tags

get your gay little sports books at QLL: winter edition ⛷️⛸️ 🏒 🥌 🏂 🎿

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get your gay little sports books at QLL: winter edition ⛷️⛸️ 🏒 🥌 🏂 🎿

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Holiday Shopping that fights period poverty for college students? Yep! Read on. :)

After the success of our June/Pride 2024 sales goal, where we managed to eliminate a lot of the debt we accumulated while I was unable to work earlier this year & stock up cash so we didn't have to borrow for payroll during the fall lull and also donate to @queerliblib, we were considering where to focus on this year when a conversation I had with my mom pointed me in the direction of our charity for Holidays 2024: the East Stroudsburg University Warrior Food Pantry, and specifically, stocking menstrual products at the pantry.

Without getting too much into the weeds about the details - which I'll talk about under the cut for those of you who are interested - here's the pitch: we need to hit a gross sales goal of $45K in December in order to pay our bills and payroll basically until Pride starts up. Businesses like ours are very much feast or famine, and we've got to eat and we've got people whose paychecks depend on us having the cash to pay them.

If we hit that goal, we'll donate the equivalent of 1% of our net profit from the month of December in period products -- tampons and pads, specifically, by request of the food pantry, and possibly reusable pads and menstrual cups, if the pantry wants that from us. (At the end of the day, this is about taking care of people the way they need, and we'll listen to the pantry staff about what people are requesting.)

We've currently got our Bottoms & Tops sale going, too, so you can buy 2 tops or bottoms from the linked collection & get 69% off the 3rd item from that collection.

Okay, so for the long version whys and wherefores:

My mom taught math at ESU for 35 years, and she and Dad now volunteer running the food pantry along with a couple of other people. ESU is a state school, and as such is one of the few remaining vaguely affordable schools in Pennsylvania. A lot of its students are self-supporting for one reason or another -- many are "non-traditional"/adult students, have kids, or don't have families that can support them while they go to school. Mom & Dad have pushed to expand what the food pantry offers to personal care items, which has been difficult due to a bunch of boring stuff about money and state entities and also people thinking 'that's not food,' but Mom is stubborn about it, because -- to paraphrase her -- how can you focus on class when you feel gross? This struggle has been especially difficult for menstrual products, and way more so for tampons, because it's a rather conservative area and... yeah. People get weird about it.

I've been really broke, with a young kid, and reliant on food pantries, which rarely, if ever, have any menstrual products, let alone tampons. Period poverty is very real, and it sucks.

Plus, I gotta tell you, if we can send a bunch of boxes of tampons and pads to the food pantry, well... Rumor has it this will help my mom win an argument over whether those items should be carried at all, because what are they gonna do, throw them out? They're here! They've been donated! Wasting them would be terrible. :)

So that's the pitch, guys. Help me make a direct, measurable difference in the lives of people at the school where I went to winter swim team, the school that fed me growing up... and help my mom win an argument about making people's lives better... and get your holiday shopping done while you do. ;) We start counting sales from the minute I hit post. :P

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we’re also a 501(c)3 non-profit if you’re in a giving mood this giving tuesday

hey, while you’re out shopping on the internet today, swing by our shop with Worx Printing and nab some of our sweet new merch! we have a lovely new READ QUEER BOOKS mug and a long-sleeved shirt with the QLL logo on it — perfect for keeping cozy in the colder weather. and, get this, they’re union made! ☕️📚🌈 

each purchase supports the library, so we can keep bringing you new queer books each month <3

[queerliblib]

we’ve got pulp christmas lesbians, a jewish love, actually, a matchmaking holiday cat, historical gay christmas romance, kiss me at kwanzaa, kids winter solstice adventure & more 🎁

did someone say holiGAYS ?!! ❄️ ⛄️ ✨

[queerliblib]

hey, while you’re out shopping on the internet today, swing by our shop with Worx Printing and nab some of our sweet new merch! we have a lovely new READ QUEER BOOKS mug and a long-sleeved shirt with the QLL logo on it — perfect for keeping cozy in the colder weather. and, get this, they’re union made! ☕️📚🌈 

each purchase supports the library, so we can keep bringing you new queer books each month <3

[queerliblib]

did someone say holiGAYS ?!! ❄️ ⛄️ ✨