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New Memoir ‘A Body Made Home’ Embraces Black Trans Love, Healing, and Transformation

Kai Marshall Green resists cliche disability recovery narratives and normative tropes of trans storytelling.

Lauren Herold

Mar 5, 2026

The following books: The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson, Making Love with the Land by Joshua Whitehead, Màgòdiz by Gabe Calderón, and Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

book lists

Eight New Queer Indigenous Books

Poetry, contemporary YA, science fiction, short stories, essay collections, graphic novels, and more!

Casey

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Jan 7, 2023

Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art by Nicole Morse

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Nicole Morse Wants You To See Trans Feminist Futures in Selfies

Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art is a book about selfies and our relationships to them.

Lauren Herold

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Jan 4, 2023

A woman holds a coffee cup and a book in her hands

literature

Rainbow Reading: Hey Siri, What’s the Opposite of Listless?

Instead of discourse, you know what we’ve got during this last mellow week? Lists. SO MANY LISTS.

Yashwina

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Dec 29, 2022

God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu

lgbt book reviews

Queer Naija Lit: Hausa Is a Language of Love in Arinze Ifeakandu’s “God’s Children Are Little Broken Things”

To be human is to be, or not. To love, or not.

Chinelo Anyadiegwu

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Dec 28, 2022

The books We Deserve Monuments, How Far the Light Reaches, In Sensorium, Body Work, It Came From the Closet, Brown Neon, Faltas, and When We Were Sisters

book lists

92 of the Best Queer Books of 2022

Almost every category in this 2022 best of list was very competitive.

Casey

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Dec 22, 2022

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

lgbt book reviews

I’ll Never Look at the Ocean the Same Way After Reading Sabrina Imbler’s “How Far the Light Reaches”

Sea creatures become iridescent queer metaphors in this wonderfully queer memoir.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Dec 16, 2022

literature

Rainbow Reading: Call That an Elliot Page-turner

This week’s Rainbow Reading features a very special small press spotlight! Dig in!

Yashwina

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Dec 15, 2022

Two protesters with Act Up march in 1988

lgbt history

Marika Cifor Wants You To Activate Your Nostalgia for ACT UP

Marika Cifor’s new book Viral Cultures: Activist Archiving in the Age of AIDS explores how LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS archives shape our understanding of history.

Lauren Herold

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Dec 6, 2022

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The Seep, Land of Milk and Honey, and The Unworthy

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17 Sapphic Holiday Romances To Devour This Winter

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10 New Middle Grade Books Featuring LGBTQ+ Main Characters

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10 Trans Horror Books You Should Read Right Now

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memoirs by brandi carlile, brittney griner and kristen kish

48 Lesbian, Queer and Trans Celebrity Memoirs

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Riese

15 Great Queer Novels About Sisters

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

16 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With

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What Hot Queer Book Published This Summer Should You Read?

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Author Interviews

New Memoir ‘A Body Made Home’ Embraces Black Trans Love, Healing, and Transformation

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Lauren Herold

Ashley Herring Blake and Get Over it, April Evans

Ashley Herring Blake Loves Writing Messy Queer Characters

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Sa'iyda Shabazz

How Amy Spalding Built a Four-Book Sapphic Romance Universe

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What Does ‘Queer Food’ Mean?

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Stef Rubino

Best Woman by Rose Dommu and The Pairing by Casey McQuiston

Rose Dommu and Casey McQuiston on Writing Queer Romance That Fucks With the Formula

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Adam Eli

Queer History Meets UFO Lore in Ilana Masad’s Stunning New Novel ‘Beings’

Pick An Actual Category, You Strange Genius

Gabrielle Korn

Benedict Nguyễn interview: a photo of Benedict next to the cover for Hot Girls with Balls

Benedict Nguyễn Finds Performance On the Page

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Drew Burnett Gregory

Rachel and Harrison Browne and their book Let Us Play

The Right Isn’t the Only Side We Need To Fight When It Comes to Trans Sports Inclusion

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Stef Rubino

A close up of Alison Bechdel next to the cover her for new novel Spent

Alison Bechdel Never Thought She’d Be This Successful

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Drew Burnett Gregory

photos from behind the scenes of The L Word, taken by Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals Is Letting You Into Her Massive ‘The L Word’ Archive

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