Trans Librarian

Rainbow Snippets October 4-5 ​​​​​​​​​​ ​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes...

A snippet from A Dance of Water and Air for this week’s Rainbow Snippet in honor of its October 1st anniversary.

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Burn the Binary!, Vol. 2 - The Trans Literature Database In this searing and accessible collection of essays, pioneering activist and writer Riki Wilchins dismantles the rigid gender norms that have shaped our lives.

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A collection of essays in which Riki Wilchins "urges us to imagine a future beyond “male” and “female,” where gender is self-determined, expansive, and free." #transbooks

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Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank

My novella of trans self-discovery is now up for pre-order! You can get Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina (short name Opus) for preorder now. Release date December 12,2025. Ebook $3. Paperback $8.

Thread time.
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb

Power to Yield and Other Stories Blowing minds, one book at a time. Broken Eye Books publishes the weird side of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We love all speculative fiction, and the blurrier the boundaries, the better.

Just got notified by my publisher that Power to Yield earned out! I also got a royalties payment of about $20 😀

Thank you everyone for supporting this weird trans book!! Spreading the word about it helps:

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Cleavage – Jennifer Finney Boylan - Trans Lit Database Cleavage provides hope for a future in which we all have the freedom to live joyfully as men, as women, and in the space between us.

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): More than a dive into gender identity; it’s also a look at the difference between coming out as trans in 2000 when many people reacted to her transition with love and the present era of blowback and fear." #transbooks

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A World Worth Saving – Kyle Lukoff - Trans Lit Database When his friend disappears after a conversion therapy group meeting with their unaccepting parents, a trans teen sets out to save them.

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "how is one trans kid who hasn’t even chosen a name supposed to save his friend, let alone the world?" #transbooks

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Image has a red background with the gold Lambda Literary Awards seal. On the left is the winning title’s book cover and on the right is the text: The 2025 Lambda Literary Awards Winner, with the category below it.

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Fiction: Firebugs by Nino Bulling! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards

🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Studies: When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader by Susan Stryker, edited by McKenzie Wark! @susanstryker.bsky.social @mckenziewark.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction: The Other Olympians by Michael Waters! 🎉🎉🎉
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Perverts by Kay Gabriel

A collective dream of queer desire and resistance, Perverts explores how private longing becomes shared consciousness amid rising anti-trans panic. Desire as politics, poetry as organizing.

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Love in Exile – Shon Faye - The Trans Literature Database Love in Exile by Shon Faye is a dive into universal, deeply felt questions about love, reframed through a radical, revolutionary perspective.

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "eight voice-driven essays unpack the norms governing love in our time with the insight of a shrewd outsider." #transbooks

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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): An anthology of stories, poems and art. "To be trans and disabled means experiencing ableism within our trans communities and transphobia within our disabled communities." #transbooks

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As someone self-publishing... um... I have a neocities? It's *mostly* finished. Bookmark that if you're going off social media.
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I’ve said this many times, and I hope you’re not sick of hearing it because you’ll prolly hear it many times again:

Art is the Journey, not the Destination, and AIGuys fundamentally do not understand this.

Art is the Means, not the End, the sum of it’s parts, which is why AI images feel so empty.

San Francisco’s Transgender District - The Trans Literature Database A history of the transgender district of San Francisco in photographs by Rev. Dr. Megan Rohrer. Part of the Images of America series.

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A history of San Francisco’s Transgender District told through historic photos. #transbooks

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Book cover for Shy Trans Banshee by Tony Santorella Blurb: Brian, Nik and Darby - three friends practiced in ennui, binge-drinking, hooking up with strangers and fighting supernatural crime (when Brian's not committing it as a werewolf once a month) - have been sent by Abe Van Helsing (yes, one of those Van Helsings) to try to track down a colleague who has gone missing in London. As they putz around the city, following any leads that might help them find their British counterpart, they uncover a clairvoyancy smuggling ring, located right in the heart of the financial district. Who's kidnapping all the fortune tellers in Soho and why? And is it coincidence, fate or something more sinister altogether that Maeve, a timid trans woman taking time out of her job to track down her birth mother, turns up on the gang's doorstep... and has the uncanny ability to know just what's going to happen next?

SHY TRANS BANSHEE by Tony Santorella is out today! It’s the super queer and darkly funny follow-up to Bored Gay Werewolf, filled with werewolves, crime, supernatural mystery, millennial ennui and queer found family.

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#booksky #transbooks

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): James moves into a haunted house where he befriends the ghost of an 18th century trans boy. Can the 2 of them survive what hides in the basement? #transbooks

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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): James moves into a haunted house where he befriends the ghost of an 18th century trans boy. Can the 2 of them survive what hides in the basement? #transbooks

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Top 10 and Frequently Challenged Books Archive Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books, using its database and media reports.

Thanks for the fact check. I was on my phone, and missed the obvious fakeness of it. Couldn't find a graphic that matched this, but some of the titles are on ALA's most challenged lists. Still, this and the most challenged lists are good for finding things to read. www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...

New reading list just dropped.

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): After moving to rural Vermont, Azar befriends an aging sci-fi writer and his nonbinary teen, Tristan, in this YA graphic novel. #transbooks

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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "Alien meets Midsommar" in this alien invasion story set in rural West Virginia. #transbooks

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Review by mandameow - Compound Fracture Emotionally devastating, in a good way. That is one very good dog. 💜

Outstanding.

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#queerbooks #transbooks #diversebooks #booksky

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): " A mind-bending quantum thriller about simulated realities, brainscanners, a digital apocalypse, estrogen, and tabletop gaming at a cozy queer café." #transbooks

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Cover of the novella haunted mediation by D.C. Emerson, tropes, representation, full alt text at end of thread

"A fall harvest. That’s what he tasted like. A delicious combination of spice and oranges, and the turning of seasons. His hair felt like a cashmere sweater, and the warmth of his body under James’ was like drinking hot cocoa after playing in piles of leaves.”

"’But whatever has made you feel like this, and think like this…we’re gonna fucking fix it, okay?’"

Things I want to learn while reading cozy books: "‘What’s a faefriend?‘ Leon asked quietly, keeping an eye on the teens in case they tried to make a break for it. ‘It’s like girlfriend or boyfriend but for nonbinary folk,’ James said.”

A cute achillean, inclusive novella 🍂🍁
“Haunted Mediation“ by D.C. Emerson

Coming October 1st

Arc-review and full alt text in 🧵.

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#RomanceReads #QueerBooks #TransBooks #AchilleanBooks #PanBooks ]

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "the most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date" #transbooks

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Listen, on the one hand, we're not going to Reading List our way out of this mess, but on the other hand, it is vital that we keep circulating the stories from the communities under attack and the easiest way to do that is read & talk about their books. So let's talk about some trans books!...