March 21st-31st is the trans rights read-a-thon, and we’re highlighting a few trans books that are ALWAYS AVAILABLE to checkout from the Queer Liberation Library! that’s right, an unlimited number of people can read these at the same time - no wait, no holds!
first up: we’ve got My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott,
"Part trans woman's coming-out story and part heartfelt romance, My Body Is Distant follows Paige from a childhood obsession with the 1980s game Zork, through a health crisis and divorce, to, ultimately, an affirmation of authenticity and self-love."
This recommendations post for Trans Rights Readathon is brought to you by books we already had in our library and it got a little out of hand! We decided first to break things down by other rep in case that was helpful for folks. We have another post planned breaking things down by genre as well, so stay tuned! With series, we only include the first book in the series to keep our stacks slightly more manageable!
As far as we know, the authors here are out as trans / nonbinary / genderqueer. Please don't be a dick and try to force authors who happen to write trans characters to out themselves! We did our best on rep breakdowns, but please let us know if we misfiled anything since we haven't read everything yet.
Trans, Nonbinary & Genderqueer Rep
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco
An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows
Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
Thicker Than Blood by Sera Quim
Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender
A Bone in His Teeth by Kellen Graves
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley
Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon
The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard
You can find more recs for Polyamory Rep, Sapphic / wlw Rep, and Achillean / mlm Rep all written by trans authors under the cut!
Polyamory Rep
An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows (Poly-normative world build, though I'm not 100% sure if there are any major polyamorous relationships)
Thicker Than Blood by Sera Quim (MMM with a trans masc protagonist)
Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender (M/M/genderfluid? Trans masc main character and a love interest who regularly uses alchemy to change their gender)
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (MMF)
SPECTR by Jordan L. Hawk (Whole series is M/M/genderless demon sharing a body with the main character. Volume 1 is being rebound which is why Volume 2 is pictured)
Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright (From what I can tell MMF, but this is one of the few we haven't read yet)
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco (MMF but Gabe would like me to convey that the most important part of the dynamic is that it's dom/sub/dom)
Please feel free to ask for more info on these especially, at least one of us have read most of these (and the few we don't are high up on our reading list for the week.)
Sapphic / wlw Rep
We have been building our sapphic library but apparently need to focus on more sapphic romance written by trans authors specifically! Here's what we do have (with some real gems we love). We tried to aim for all of these having the main romance be sapphic!
Gwen & Art are Not in Love by Lex Croucher
The Dead Take the A Train by Cassandra Khaw & Richard Kadrey (Book 1 in a duology)
Providence Girls by Morgan Dante
The Fall That Saved Us by Tamara Jerée
Time and Time Again by Chatham Greenfield
An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows (I think this is a completed duology!)
Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley (This is getting a sequel!)
Achillean / mlm Rep
This category ended up being...quite large. It really goes to show you just how many more gay books by trans authors have come out in the last few years! Okay, strap in, here we go:
Captive Prince & Dark Rise by CS Pacat (Captive Prince is a completed triology and Dark Rise will be a trilogy)
Thicker Than Blood by Sera Quim
How to Bite Your Neighbor & Win a Wager by D. N. Bryn
Prince of Sorrows by Kellen Graves (Book 1 of the Rowan Blood series, which currently has 4/8 books out)
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows (Book 1 of the completed Tithenai Chronicles duology)
Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender (Book 1 of the Infinity Alchemist series)
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Book 1 of a triology with 2/3 books currently out)
SPECTR by Jordan L. Hawk (18 connected novella length stories collected into what should soon be 6 volumes if you want them physically! Each novella is one case!)
So This Is Ever After, Spell Bound, Otherworldly, & In Deeper Waters by FT Lukens (Each is a complete stand alone romance!)
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco (Book 1 of the completed Reaper duology)
This years read-a-thon kicks off tomorrow, March 21st, runs up until March 31st, which is Trans day of Visibility.
The goal of this event is to Read, Supprt, and Uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and twospirit authors and characters. And to donate (if you can) to some trans organizations!
More information and how to sign up can be found here
So I figured I’d share my collection and tentative tbr if anyone wanted recommendations. But I’m also so open if anyone has any recs for books.
Halfway through the Trans Rights Readathon for 2025 and I've finished reading my first book, which was Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. I really enjoyed it. The book is a fantastic horror story based in a post-apocalypse triggered by a Christian fundamentalist cult. An expression of queer rage and solidarity. I highly recommend it.
Now I'm moving onto some non-fiction with The Book of Non-Binary Joy by Ben Pechey, because lord knows I need some non-binary joy right now.
The donations seem to have dried up, which is understandable given the cost of living permacrisis we are all living in.
For those who don't know, in January 2025 the Queensland state government halted gender affirming care for people under 18. This left 491 kids high and dry without adequate healthcare. Project 491 was set up to try and help those affected and that is where my donations will be going.
If you want to donate to my fundraiser here is the link
