This list of queer and/or trans focused books about autism are mostly nonfiction, but I’ve also included a few novels by queer autistic authors featuring queer autistic characters, including science fiction, fantasy, and romance.
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If you find yourself needing a bit of sweetness and charm in these early, dreary months of the year, Sorry, Bro is a perfect pick me up.
I held these words close as I walked through my neighborhood in a town named after perhaps the most famous colonizer in the Americas.
This is a deeply feminist work, but it’s not sanitized, commodified feminism. The feminism here is raw, living, harsh and at times, violent.
The Girl That Can’t Get A Girlfriend is an autobiographic manga by Mieri Hiranishi that follows her first crush, her first relationship, her first breakup, and trying to move on afterwards.
The scene where Mahalia — the Black queer teen at the center of Camryn Garrett’s new novel — comes out to her mom is painful but honest.
If everyone was defined by the worst things they’d ever done, then we’d never get a happy ending. And we deserve that, don’t we?
Set against the authoritarian backdrops of the McCarthy era and George W. Bush’s post 9/11 America, “Endpapers” asks: What happens when we stop trying to force ourselves to be something we’re not?
We live in a society so oppressive to those of us who dare to imagine better that we have very little incentive to keep imagining.
This is not an exhaustive list of butch memoirs, and I would love to hear about more.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what it takes to write a responsible dystopia.
My internal identity journey as a black genderfluid person involves engaging with my relationship to masculinity.
Mairead Sullivan’s new book, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer explores and aims to disrupt our contemporary anxieties around the disappearance of the term “lesbian” as an identity, political standpoint, and theoretical concept.
Also, the HarperCollins Union’s strike IS SOMEHOW STILL GOING ON. Rainbow Reading wholeheartedly supports the union as they pursue a fair contract for their workers.
Michelin-star chef Iliana Regan takes you back to her family’s farmhouse.
Once I started Judas Goat, it was nearly impossible to put down.
As someone who grew up in a rural place, I really appreciated how authentically rural this novel felt.
Lee Winter is back with an age gap, ice queen romance that leaves you hanging.
In a time when so many popular examples of queer art have their edges sanded down, Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is all edge.