J Jezzick

Writer, reader, watcher, reviewer

[desifashion]

Faiza Saqlain - Rua Collection

[queerliblib]

hi! LOVE what you guys do here. that you exist makes me feel so much better about the world. do you guys happen to have/know where i could find a list of queer books that are banned in the us? i've looked all over (including lambda & rwb) and can't find one. i can find lists of queer books and lists of banned books but not a list that is ONLY queer AND banned books. thanks for any help, and i hope you have a queer year!! <3

hi! thank you!

hmm well, the American Library Association and PEN America are two good sources for this. However, they generally track banned/challenged books in general and while they will often indicate which titles are queer, they don’t necessarily have separate lists for those.

that being said, i’d say take a look at:

Pride Month: A Banned Book Reading List

In the last two years, 26% of banned books have featured LGBTQ+ characters and themes. For Pride month, PEN America recommends books that ce

ALA compiles data on book challenges from reports filed by library professionals in the field and from news stories published throughout the

as well as reporting from queer news orgs:

25 LGBTQ+ Books That Are Banned In Schools in 2022

LGBTQ+ titles top list of most-banned books in 2024

The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual report into banned books, and LGBTQ+-themed titles topped the list again.

and you may also want to take a look at the national coalition against censorship:

LGBTQ Book Bans and Challenges - National Coalition Against Censorship

The following is a list of some of the many books that have been banned and challenged because of their LGBTQ content and themes. To rea

and we’ve also got a list up of books that have been banned or challenged somewhere in the US, but these are only the ones we’ve got in our collection (but they are all queer).

[desifashion]

Devi by Sheetal Zaveri

[queerliblib]

What's the oldest book in your collection?

huh good question. okay not sure if I’m going to be able to get this exactly chronologically accurate, but! can still give you a list of several titles that were originally published at least 100 years ago

Autobiography of an Androgyne by Earl Lind (originally published in 1918)

The Convent of Pleasure by Margaret Cavendish (1868!)

Imre: a memorandum by Edward Irenaeus Prime-Stevenson (1909)

we’ve got Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890)

Precious and Adored: the love letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple 1890-1918 (this book was published much more recently, but the letters themselves are over 100 years old)

there may be a few others (it’s impossible to search the collection just by publication date to answer this, as the publication dates all reflect when the particular digital edition we have came out and are therefore not helpful at all!) but hopefully you enjoy exploring these titles!

[kiki-eng]

If you're counting from the original date rather than a translation it might be The Complete Poems of Sappho (c. 630 - c. 570 BC)?

[queerliblib]

oh my god you’re so right we do indeed have this in the collection

[ocies-sideblog]

I have my pride month reading tradition that I do every year in which I read

one queer nonfiction

2 queer rereads (currently One Last Stop and Summer Sons)

1 new queer fiction

I would like recommendations for the last one, 1 new queer fiction. hit me with your best reccs

[queerliblib]

sounds fun! we’ll offer up our in-translation list for possibly some queer titles you may not have heard of before

[jjezzick]

Oooohhhhh either The Last Sun by K D Edwards (heed the warnings) or Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell. I can never rec either of those enough.

[desifashion]

Sonakshi Sinha for Itrh Official Campaign

[gifseafins]

[jezebelgoldstone]

@tarak-manspread

[tarak-manspread]

RATING NANDAMURI TARAKA RAMA RAO JR’S MANSPREADS ON A SCALE OF 1 - 10

My GOD! The hedonism I am witnessing today with mine own two eyes!! The INDULGENCE! The sheer, unencumbered SWAG! Sunglasses while playing with a laptop? Why not? A violin? Sure, throw it right on his abdomen, he won’t mind! Grenades? Of course! A dozen of them!! All on a bed of straw! Literally nothing here makes any goddam sense and I LOVE IT.

I’m gonna forgive the weak spread simply because I’m so tickled by this set dressing. And the spread itself isn’t bad, it’s just not wide enough for my taste. The foot-on-knee variation is fun, not something we see very often, so points added for novelty! And I love that he’s laying back, a recumbent king basking in the absurdity of his prop-laden straw bed. Too funny.

FINAL VERDICT: 6/10

[desifashion]

Original source for the photo is unknown. (found on Pinterest)

Model: Shobana Karthikeyan

[queerliblib]

We love queer love 💖💗💕

browse these lists on our libby home page to find your next favorite queer romance! you can use the ‘available now’ filter to find titles you can check out today - no wait!

Valentines Day 💖

Love & Libraries

Later-in-Life Romance

[upstairsdownstairsandinbetween]

Villa Nouvelle Vague, Oostduinkerke, Belgium,

Magalie Munters Architect

[queerliblib]

I heard that although copyright is an issue for media sometimes, what is even a bigger issue for libraries are the stipulations publishers (or vendors) can put on media that overwrites lenient copyright and fair use rules (though some organizations are trying to fight this). Is this an issue for your library too, especially when it comes to the amount of copies you can share with your users and how many times an ebook or audiobook can be borrowed before its license needs a renewal?

ebook & audiobook licensing is definitely complex

there are a few different kinds of licenses, here are some (non-exhaustive) examples:

one copy that one person can read at a time, but the library gets to keep it forever

metered access: one copy that one person can read at a time, but it expires after a set amount of time (often 24months) or a set number of checkouts (usually 26 or 52 checkouts)

metered access: 100 copies that up to 100 people can read simultaneously, but after those 100 checkouts are up the library no longer has the book unless we purchase it again

publishers set the licenses. sometimes books are available in one of the above options, or more than one. sometimes there’s a different license depending on if it’s an ebook or audiobook. libraries have no control over any of that, we just try to purchase the best possible options out of what is available

[folkfashion]

Magar woman's dress, Nepal, by Tekbahadur BK

[hag-lad]

RATING NANDAMURI TARAKA RAMA RAO JR’S MANSPREADS ON A SCALE OF 1 - 10

Ah, the moment that won my heart and soul! The pinnacle of campy masculine performance art! The homoeroticism of it all!!!!!!! I love Bheem, but he’s probably the least likely of all Tarak’s characters to manspread in earnest. This is a spread, but it is not technically a manspread. He’s just doing squats!

Now. The way he’s doing squats is worthy of investigation, because it is so absurdly masc4masc, and there is ENORMOUS big dick energy present. Bheem is certainly commanding attention, from the camera, from Ram, from any passersby… He knows what he’s doing! And that gives this squat an honorary consideration in the manspread olympics. It’s great!

I really am just so delighted by this. It is unironically my favorite moment in RRR. There are so many layers of subtext, I could think and talk about it for years. But for now, let’s split the difference between my love for Bheem’s gay squats and my insistence that it isn’t a true manspread.

FINAL VERDICT: 5/10

[desifashion]

Amishee Fine Jewellry

[isuggestusingyourlocallibrary]

It's becoming clearer that sometimes when I say "use your local library" it's taken as "use a public library" and while that is definitely something you should be doing if you can, I'm usually talking about any library that's accessible to you!! Lending libraries, online libraries, school libraries, all of these are important to use as well!! If you have access to them, use them!! "Your local library" means any library that is local to you!

[queerliblib]

local to everyone anywhere in the USA (incl. territories) over here at the Queer Liberation Library <3

[folkfashion]

Mandika woman's dress, Guinea, by saranbahofficial

[aromanticofficial]

do you know any books about aromanticism?

the only book i know that's explicitly about aromanticism is loveless by alice oseman which like everyone knows about loveless by alice oseman so i'm sorry i can't be more help :(

[queerliblib]

we’ve got a whole list for aromanticism!

& if you’re not already a member, anyone anywhere in the US can join - for free! to check out & read all these (& the rest of our collection)