#books are political

[cinnibelle]

[asherquazar]

Are you looking for a book packed with trans rage and gay kissing? 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Looking for something moody, spooky, and unapologetically political? 🥀🦇

I've pledged 100% of Bleeding Mars's sales this month to the Trevor Project, and I'm looking for more indie authors to make charity pledges too!

You can learn more about my project to create a searchable list of authors pledging a % of sales at my website: https://asherquazar.com/bap

If you know any indies who might like to participate, please share this with them!

[ataurusinabookshop]

So in light of recent events in the US, does anyone have any quotes from fantasy books with female leads that are tattoo-able?

Like as powerful as “To whatever end, you do not yield” is, I’d rather pick a phrase that’s by an author that isn’t so problematic/controversial.

Maybe “IGNITE” (Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi) would work but I’d like more options

[rufousnmacska]

BOOKS ARE POLITICAL

ART IS POLITICAL

Fuck trump and everyone who supports him.

Unfollow me I don’t care

[queerism1969]

[nyx5133106]

All the "I would have also dated Dorian Gray knowing how morally bankrupted he is. Have you seen him?" posts annoyed me a little but I thought they were just jokes and didn’t think much of them...But were they really? With the amount of people on the internet arguing how "books are not political" and debating how characters like Batman would be republican I am not so sure anymore.

[rkivees]

Every time someone has the need to say books are not political a little part of me dies. If there's something that's political, it's books. There's a reason they get banned when a far right-wing government takes place. Please, use your brain.

[appleskywalker]

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[mysharona1987]

That’s a concentration camp, tho.

[typhlonectes]

Independent bookstores around the country have a particularly clever lifeline, one perfectly suited to the unprecedented moment we find ourselves in. The strange part? It came into being just weeks before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, and before the bookstores started closing up shop wondering if they’d reopen at all.

The lifeline in question is called Bookshop. 

In simple terms, it’s a super clean, user-friendly online bookstore whose raison d’être is supporting independent bookstores — not simply with exposure or resources (though that’s certainly a factor), but with cold hard cash...

[incognitopolls]

This is specifically asking about how your enjoyment of the work has changed based on your knowledge of the author's politics. Vote based on that, not based on whether you think the quality of the work itself has gone down.

TERF = trans exclusionary radical feminist. JK Rowling has been very openly anti-transgender in recent years and has poured unfathomable amounts of money into funding anti-trans legislation in the UK.

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[smashing-yng-man]

[carebeardean]

Charles whose dad smashed his cassette tape with a hammer learns to navigate the backpack cause, like, he needs to be useful, yeah?

and this way Charles has everything Edwin needs, and if Edwin gets sick of him he’ll just.. he doesn’t know what he’ll do.

but then Edwin gets the record player.

he suggests, tentatively, that Charles might play some of his “queen” if he liked. after all, if they are to haunt potential realtors away from their new office, they may as well entertain themselves.

so they take turns, switching out; edwin likes opera. he shows Charles how to waltz, chiding Charles to stop looking at his feet til they’re gliding, whirling around like they’re in the movies. Edwin’s smile is small and pleased and lovely. (Charles attempt to get Edwin to headbang along to queen results in a sort of awkward rhythmic nodding. Charles loves him so much he could die again.)

And, like. Edwin doesn’t like clutter. he doesn’t bother with the random tidbits ghosts give them for solving cases.

until now, apparently.

now he comes back from trading at the goblin market with little useless things—a cursed rubix cube, records from bands Charles mentioned years ago.

Charles is so busy trying to subtly read his book on Edwardian courting rituals (disguised by Nikos discreet manga covers) that he doesn’t realize what Edwin’s set down in front of him. he stares at Edwin’s spiky handwriting, the tidy numbered list.

“I thought, perhaps, that we might—start a new tradition.”

Charles blinks, eyes stinging. “Mate, did you.. make me a mixtape?”

“Crystal assisted me, and while she was absolutely insuffer—“ Edwin staggers, catching him with a surprised little noise.

“I love you so much,” Charles says, muffled into his throat. “You’re my favorite person. I love you so much it hurts, sometimes.”

“Yes,” Edwin says softly, hands curling around his waist. He takes Charles weight like it’s nothing. “I believe I know the feeling.”

this is a longer fic on ao3 now!

[animentality]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Toronto's oldest queer bookshop was on the brink of closing its doors last month after facing eviction but it is now back on its feet after an outpouring of community support — and just in time for Pride Month. On Monday, Glad Day Bookshop, located in the heart of Toronto's Gay Village, launched an online fundraiser to appeal to the community to save its business. The store said it needed $100,000 to avoid eviction in July. Just a few days later, the business was able to collect more than $112,000 after community members rallied together to support the long-running shop. Michael Erickson, co-owner of Glad Day Bookshop, said it feels like a "Pride miracle.  "The fact that 2,000 people supported us within three [to] four days is pretty incredible," Erickson told CBC Toronto.

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[thetransfemininereview]

THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION. Censorship affects all of us, and if Project 2025 gets its way, the entire trans publishing industry is at a significant risk of criminalization. In this article, I lay out the problem and the stakes, and suggest a broad action plan with dozens of potential response ✊