#Emily Austin

[lgbtqreads]

Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Adult Fiction: January-June 2025

Due to the delightfully large volume of titles, Romances will be getting their own post later this week! Mothers and Sons by Adam Haslett (January 7th) At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give.…

[ireton]

Emily Austin - a message for kamala harris supporters

[lisareadsthings]

It’s easy for me to accept that I am bacteria, or a parasite, or cancer. It’s easy for me to accept that my life is trivial, and that I am a speck of dust. It is hard for me to accept that for the people around me, however. It’s hard for me to accept that my brother’s life doesn’t matter, or that old women who die don’t matter, or even that rabbits or cats don’t matter. I feel simultaneously intensely insignificant and hyperaware of how important everyone is.

-Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Dion J. Pierre

“The Chabad Rabbi of UCLA was just physically assaulted live on camera,” said Harvard University student Shabbos Kestenbaum. “The students subsequently began calling him a ‘Zionist pedophile Rabbi,’ telling him to ‘go back to Poland.’ We are in such a dark, dangerous time in our country, with almost no leadership fighting back.”

Others, commenting on the swarming of vice chancellor Beck, suggested that UCLA’s admissions committee potentially selected the students to reward their allegiance to the politics of the far left.

“You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh at this UCLA administrator,” said Noah Pollack, a contributor to the Washington Free Beacon. “These are the people he wanted on campus. These are the people his admissions committee selects for. And now he gets to live with them while they threaten and humiliate him.”

Emily Austin, a pro-Israel activist and sports broadcaster, told The Algemeiner in a statement: “These students feel comfortable engaging in what increasingly looks like domestic terrorism because the authorities allow it. They do and say the most abhorrent things knowing there will be no consequences. This is a result of weak leadership, especially in California, where leaders’ failures stretch far beyond the campus.”

The riot at UCLA continues an unprecedented year in higher education in which students emerged in the hundreds and thousands to declare solidarity with Hamas, terrorism, and efforts to destroy Israel, the world’s only Jewish state. Their demonstrations followed Hamas’ atrocities on Oct. 7, when the terrorist organization murdered over 1,200 people, kidnapped more than 250 others, and perpetrated systematic sexual violence during the terrorist group’s invasion of southern Israel.

At UCLA, anti-Zionist protesters have installed their third encampment, the first of which saw them block off entire sections of campus through which they blocked Jewish students from passing. Violence, destruction of property, and open calls for murdering Jews have defined all three demonstrations, revealing what experts have described to The Algemeiner as the complete radicalization of higher education.

[belamercado]

I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they've morphed into. I remember being sixteen and feeling eleven. I remember thinking, how could I be a teenager? I remember finishing high school and thinking, am I grown now? Is this what it feels like? I feel the same as I did before.

–Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead- Emily Austin

[smittyreads]

Narrowed it down to my top 7 reads out of 64 from 2023 📚🎉

[dig-with-it]

Heaven is two women who take their phones to their shared bedroom, scroll and laugh sporadically as they flash each other pictures of toads, and say, "Honey, this reminds me of you." MATTHEW 25:6

— from Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austin

[always-an-angel]

book playlists: queer lit edition 🌈

hi here are some spotify playlists i made to match the vibe/story of books i love :) enjoy!!

bunny by mona awad

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily austin

the house in the cerulean sea by tj klune

the lesbiana’s guide to catholic school by sonora reyes

patricia wants to cuddle by samantha allen

ophelia after all by racquel marie

stay and fight by madeline ffitch

vagabonds! by eloghosa osunde

white is for witching by helen oyeyemi

y.a. playlists | literary fiction playlists | dark academia playlists

[ifwewere-stories]

[messy-di-voce]

Ok can people talk about Emily Austin more please???

I read Interesting Facts About Space after reading Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and oh my god!!

I’ve never read a book more brutally honest about existing before. Also I really just understood the flow of thoughts from both Gilda and Enid. They both felt very real to me. I *highly* recommend these books if they look even remotely interesting to you!!

Austin is very rapidly becoming one of my favorite authors!

[wallofhearts]

— everyone in this room will someday be dead

[wonkyreads]

[moonwoods]

i love this book so much I want to eat it

[pretentious-basterd]

"My mother had a baby, and her mother had a baby, and her mother had a baby. Every woman in my family before me lived to have a baby—just so that baby could grow up to have another baby. If I don't have a baby, then all of those women reproduced just so that I could exist. I am the final baby."

-Emily Austin

So nice to be the chosen one!

[mothumn]

Of course I'm a fraud. The fact that I'm able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I'm a con artist. Aren't we all con artists?

Emily Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

[usedgingertwinkhole]

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead Summary:

A lesbian with severe anxiety accidentally gets a job as a secretary for a church. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever read

The Sun and the Star Summary:

A Nico di Angelo solo book

Nico di Angelo is pretty familiar with the realms of death, being the son of Hades and all. So when a desperate voice starts plaguing his dreams, Nico is convinced it's coming from the Underworld and belongs to an old friend - a reformed Titan called Bob. Then an ominous prophecy leaves Nico in no doubt - Bob needs his help and Nico must rescue him. Of course Nico's boyfriend, Will Solace, the son of Apollo (the god of light) insists on joining the quest too. But can will even survive in the darkest part of the world? And what does the prophecy mean when it says that Nico will have to leave something of equal value behind? As Nico faces demons both internal and external, his relationship with Will is tested to its very core. Can love find its way, even through the depths of hell?