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so I've been doing the Prideopoly reading challenge created by BookasaurusBex on IG (thanks to @rainbowcrate for boosting) and the latest square I landed on was to provide queer book recs, so I wanted to share my reads (so far) from this month's challenge!
A lot of my focus has been on queer poetry, so I've read a lot of truly magical verse from the pens of Brontez Purnell (Ten Bridges I've Burnt), H. Melt (There Are Trans People Here), Paul Trans (All The Flowers Kneeling), Mary Lambert (Shame is An Ocean I Swim Across), Yanyi (Dream of the Divided Field), jaye simpson (it was never going to be okay), and Saeed Jones (Alive At The End of the World). Each text is gorgeous, devastating, and spectacularly inventive in its own style; the creativity and courage I've encountered really beggars belief.
I've also read some queer nonfiction material like the Camp Trans zine and A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them pronouns, which have provided a fascinating look at trans advocacy two decades apart. I've also read Sarah Gailey's brilliant neowestern novella Upright Women Wanted, the story of a queer girl trying to rediscover self-love and community in a hateful world, and Hansol Jung's gorgeously devastating drama Wolf Play, which follows of the lives of a burgeoning prize fighter and their partner as they navigate a rocky new adoption. And of course there's the excellent comic Carmilla: The First Vampire, which explores the legendary vampire in the context of a 90s chinatown in a timeless story of love, legacy, and appetite.
My (mostly likely) final read will be Bad Fire: A Memoir of Disruption, a book with maybe one of the greatest summaries ever
I've been so grateful for the chance to do this challenge, and I play to do it for next year if it's still running. I hope to see some of you there!
Readers and writers of the NSP anthologies may be interested in this special call for submissions for The Pleasure Issue of beestung: a quarterly micro-magazine of non-binary writers that’s sweet and stings:
Opens for work: May 15th, 2026. Deadline: June 13th, 2026, Deadline for BIPOC writers: June 20th. To be published August 20th, 2026. Please direct work to Christian M. Ivey at [email protected]. The Pleasure Issue will be an issue interrogating the varying politics of pleasure via the difference between the erotic and the pornographic through flash fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and art... This issue of beestung will be in conversation with the T4T issue of TSQ edited by Cameron Awkward-Rich and Hil Malatino, Samuel R. Delany’s “Aye & Gomorrah” and Phallos, Darieck Scott’s Best Black Gay Erotica, Audre’s Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” adrienne maree brown’s Pleasure Activism, Jennifer Nash’s “Black Anality,” Christopher Chitty’s Sexual Hegemony, Tim Dean’s “Lacan and Queer Theory” and Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking, Blanche Richardson’s Best Black Women’s Erotica, Tristan Taormino’s Take Me There, Octavia E. Butler’s Bloodchild and Lilith’s Brood, Eric A. Stanley’s Atmospheres of Violence, mayfield brooks’ “Improvising While Black,” Jeffery M. Elliot’s Kindred Spirits, e.e. cummings, Leonard Cohen, Wanda Coleman, Melvin Dixion, Essex Hemphill, HBO’s Real Sex, MTV’s Undressed, and many more explorations of sex and sexuality via text, audio, image, and video of the past, current and future. Please send written work as a .docx file and art and multimedia work as .png. Flash fiction may be up to 1500 words, and creative nonfiction no more than 3500 words. No more than 3 poems per packet, single spaced.
Full guidelines and details on beestung's website.
Non-Binary Duck Prints Press Creators for Non-Binary Week!
Happy Non-Binary Awareness Week! In previous years, we posted our recommended books with NB characters and books written by NB authors. This time, we’ve compiled a list of works published by Duck Prints Press that were created by our fantastic non-binary authors and artists!
You can find these titles in the Duck Prints Press webstore and on our Patreon!
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Genre Is A Social Construct - two more designs for this one, because I like it! These are themed to the genderqueer and nonbinary flag colors respectively.
My original art made in Procreate, image descriptions in alt text.
"i know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful."
Have you read "i'm going back to Minnesota where sadness makes sense" by Danez Smith?
Yes, before this
Yes, I just followed the link and read it
No, but I recognize the title, author, and/or quote
I've never heard of this
Read it here | Reblog for a larger sample size!
Does any other writers on the autism spectrum when writing things repeat themselves or concepts over again without knowing? Its becoming an issue since I write an lot like that for fictional stories which is sort of pissing me off because its coming off really redundant thanks to how I personally am. But I also have that tendency in speaking in general, too.
If somebody does, is it okay to be that way? What advice would you give if somebody on the spectrum was to try and improve on it? Am I alone with this. Please let me know.
I have been quite dead off the face of the earth, but perhaps I will respond back to you. Or not. Its not like I'm being rude, I am just really busy.
essay by sof sears on their substack “heartmouth” (heartmouth.substack.com)!!!
