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This Pride Month, the stakes are clear | Xtra Magazine OPINION: An encampment eviction has exposed a divide in Toronto's queer community. The problem is deeper than it seems

The incident at Barbara Hall Park prompts the question propelling our current social moment: Who needs to get out of the way so the rest of us can enjoy the luxury of pretending that everything is all right?

And a few more!

A few pics from last weekend’s overwhelmingly beautiful anniversary cabaret. Thanks, all ❤️

Book cover for Nights Too Short to Dance by "icon of queer literature" Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Katia Grubisic (Second Story Press‬), with a person in a collared shirt looking pensive, under a strong pink filter. The newest winner of the Governor General’s Award for Translation. René suddenly feels like an old man. Recovering at home after an illness, his mind will not leave the past. He is both comforted and annoyed by the officious care provided by his Russian nurse, who keeps referring to him as a woman. https://secondstorypress.ca/products/nights-too-short-to-dance

Book cover for El Ghourabaa: A queer and trans collection of oddities edited by Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (Metonymy Press‬, with mountains and grazing horses, birds, sheafs of wheat, and other line drawings against a coral-red background. Multi-genre, multi-generational, and global Arab and Arabophone queer writing. Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature. In addition to Marshy and El Bechelany-Lynch, contributors include: Etel Adnan, Rabih Alameddine‬, Joe Kadi, Marlin M. Jenkins, Leila Marshy ‬, Trish Salah, Olivia Tapiero‬, Nour Symon‬, Yehia Anas Sabaa, Nofel, Hoda Adra, Ralph Haddad, Seif Siddiq, Karim Kattan, Andrea Abi-Karam, Bazeed, George Abraham‬, Sarah O’Neal, Micaela Kaibni Raen, Nour Kamel, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Naja Kassir, and Barrak Alzaid. Plus a foreword by Sherine Elbanhawy‬. https://metonymypress.com/shop/books/el-ghourabaa-queer-trans-oddities/‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

7/ #Pride #SmallPress #books: El Ghourabaa, ed. by Samia Marshy and @elitareq.bsky.social (@metonymypress.bsky.social) & Nights Too Short to Dance by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by @kgrubisic.bsky.social (@secondstory.bsky.social). See alt-text!

#DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky 🌈📚 #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈📚

Pride Month reads: 9 LGBTQ-themed books by Asian authors to add to your reading list These LGBTQ books, all by authors who come from Asian backgrounds, explore identity, desire and belonging beyond Western narratives.

Love to see #SmallBeauty by jiaqing wilson-yang on this list 🪿

Writes of Passage - Read Quebec Metonymy Press, Montreal’s beloved queer and feminist indie publisher, is still going strong, with April 26th, 2025 marking the ten-year anniversary of its debut publication.

Thanks to Brooke Lee and @aelaq.bsky.social for this generous profile of Metonymy Press in honour of our 10th anniversary! readquebec.ca/writes-of-pa...

Authors are auctioning signed books to raise money for Crips for eSIMs for Gaza. Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, and Sarah Bernstein are among the dozens of prominent authors who are auctioning off signed editions of their books to benefit Crips for eSims for Gaza,…

Sheila Heti, Omar El Akkad, Madeleine Thien, Sarah Bernstein and other prominent authors are auctioning signed editions of their books to benefit Crips for eSims for Gaza, a crowdfunding organization made up of disabled people from around the world.

Over excited white person with a silver quiff outside Paperxclips bookstore in Belfast, admiring their new rainbow sign & holding up some deliciously queer books.

Ooooh baby do you know what that's worth?
Ooooh Heaven is a place on Earth

Finally made it to Paperxclips & yeah it's everything.

Books in hand: El Ghourabaa: A Queer & Trans Collection of Oddities @metonymypress.bsky.social & Grand Slam Romance 1 @abramscomicarts.bsky.social

I’m participating in the Authors for eSims for Gaza auction fundraiser. Bid on autographed books and prize bundles from your favourite authors! Funds go to Crips for eSims for Gaza’s mutual aid efforts 4 Palestinians in Gaza to connect w/each other and the rest of the world tinyurl.com/authors4esims

Been at this a decade now and it seems like a good moment to celebrate. Much gratitude to Suoni for hosting us. Come thru if you’re in MTL in June. #gaybooklovers4eva #smallpress #QTpublishing #10years

21 books bringing transgender visibility to book lovers Independent booksellers, libraries and Trans Rights Readathon organizers share their favorite books written by and about trans people.

And still more love for Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

#transrightsreadathon

A Small Press Book We Love: Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—wh…

“The kind of book that, to me, defines small presses: daring, joyous, somehow outside what you expect from books ‘these days’ while also immediately and emphatically making you wonder why the fuck the big publishers of the world aren’t leaping at beautiful gems like this one”

Congrats to the editors and all the contributors of El Ghourabaa!

2025 Publishing Triangle Awards Finalists Announced | The Publishing Triangle The Publishing Triangle, the association of LGBTQ+ people in publishing, today announced forty-one finalists for the 37th annual Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring the best LGBTQ+ books published in...

Congratulations to the @publishingtriangle.bsky.social awards finalists. An especial shout-out to books from Canadian publishers: @coachhousebooks.bsky.social @ecwpress.bsky.social @arsenalpulp.bsky.social @metonymypress.bsky.social, Annick Press, and their excellent authors! bit.ly/3DNXbza

Vente de livres de gauche - Left-wing book sale. Free entry. LeftWingBooks - Sheer Spite Press - Science for the People - Metonymy

Montreal friends - Tabling with some of my faves this weekend (@kersplebedeb.bsky.social, @metonymypress.bsky.social, Science for the People), at my favourite bookstore, come say hi.
💌 Saturday, Feb 22, 12 - 5
💌 Co-op Agenda (6692 St-Denis)

Joining with several other cultural orgs in Quebec to reassert our firm commitment to @pacbi.bsky.social #bdsmovement #freepalestine #pacbi

The Giller Prize has (finally) cut ties with Scotiabank. After fifteen months of protests, boycotts, and pressure campaigns (from Can Lit Responds, No Arms in the Arts, and other activist groups within the Canadian literary community), the Giller Prize&#…

After fifteen months of outcry from the literary community, the Giller Prize has cut ties with Scotiabank.

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Markus Harwood-Jones signing their book THE HAUNTING OF ADRIAN YATES (@metonymypress.bsky.social) at our booth!

Poet Grace Kwan appears on CBC Radio’s North by Northwest to discuss their debut collection #TheSacredHeartMotel: from world-building via Pinterest mood boards to the life-saving power of poetry in a mental health crisis to migrants’ feelings of impermanence and more

www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Trans representation isn’t trans liberation | Xtra Magazine OPINION: Even at its zenith, the trendiness of “diversity” appears to have done little to improve the day-to-day lives of trans people as a vulnerable and exploited class

“What would genuine political defiance for trans liberation look like? The question is more urgent than ever.”

The latest from @razorfemme.bsky.social in @xtramagazine.com

xtramagazine.com/power/identi...

Trans Fem Literary Springtime - Notes - e-flux McKenzie Wark provides a roundup of forthcoming fiction and literary nonfiction by and about trans women.

I wrote about new books from @jeannethornton.bsky.social @torreypeters.bsky.social @harronwawker.bsky.social @veryhotmomm.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social @thedennemichele.bsky.social @cuteflesh.bsky.social @vivianblaxell.bsky.social and more!

Graphic with a white background with text that reads, Receive a signed copy of Disability Intimacy, Donate $100 @MaskBlocLA Venmo, Email receipt to DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com. In the center is a book cover for Disability Intimacy, a graphic with a purple background with a floral print. In the center with a light beige background with a red flower on top, green leaves on both sides, underneath that flower is a purple one and right next to the purple is an orange flower. Under the purple and orange flowers are stems. Overlaid on top of the flowers in black bold letters: Disability Intimacy Essays on Love, Care, and Desire Edited by Alice Wong, Editor of Disability Visibility. Book cover by Madeline Partner.

🔥 Sending solidarity to all the seniors & disabled folks trying to survive #LAFires #LAFirestorm2025

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SAVE THE DATE(S): ottawa small press fair 2025 dates now available, more info to come in January: for now, if needed: rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com

save the date(s) : the 2025 ottawa small press book fairs, June and November (catch the fair as it turns thirty-one years old! smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2024/11/save...

ZOM-FAM Striking, vivid, tender, intimate, and political, ZOM-FAM is a beautifully wrought journey that articulates a contemporary decolonial poetics and offers a roadmap for colonized and displaced queer and...

ZOM-FAM by Kama La Mackerel
from @metonymypress.bsky.social

FEELS LIKE A MODERN EPIC TALE OF TRANS BECOMING TOLD IN POETRY. From acknowledging goddesses and ancestors, to the tale of their birth on an ill-omened day in Mauritius, their father's trip to the temple to try to amend their fates...

Transfeminine liberation in defiant times: a reading list Celebrating the resilience of transfeminine joy

“The way that the novel, through Mathilda, revives decadence as an artistic expression of excess aligns well with the fight to protect marginalized lives; our bodies, just like our joy, have always exceeded state and societal attempts to restrain them.”

briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/vie...

The Best Queer Books of 2024 There are so many damn good queer books being published these days.

Thanks to @canlesbrarian.bsky.social and @autostraddle.bsky.social for including our 2024 releases on this great year-end queer book list. #elghourabaa #thesacredheartmotel

www.autostraddle.com/the-best-que...

For anyone local (Montreal) we’re having a last-minute drop-in book sale at our office this Thursday. There will be snacks! And deals! And, c/o you know who, we won’t charge you GST. Gay books make for gay holidays. Also, solidarity 4ever w CUPW / eff you Canada Post and anti-union governments!

Last event at Massy Arts happening tomorrow! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-sky-wa...

Reciting poetry on the Co-Op Agenda's stage, to help launch Grace Kwan's The Sacred Heart Motel ❤️‍🔥

Congrats, @metonymypress.bsky.social, for the gorgeous book, & thank you for letting me celebrate with you!

👉 photos by the amazing @cairenegirl.bsky.social & Benjamin Bush Anderson.