A roundup of this weeks news and tidbits about trans authors, books, and media.
Books, books, and more books
9 Books by LGBTQ+ Disabled Authors to Read for Disability Pride Month - This list by People magazine includes books by Eli Clare and Morgan Thomas
28 Non-Fiction Books For Non- Binary Awareness Week & Beyond from the LGBT National Help Center.
The Center for Fiction has announced the longlist for their First Novel Prize and I spotted at least one trans book among them.
Bookriot's The Best Sci-Fi Books of the 21st Century are Very Queer includes books from Charlie Jane Anders, Ryka Aoki, Rivers Solomon, and others.
And some TV shows & movies to boot
Autostraddle's list of the 65 Best Netflix Lesbian and Queer TV shows includes several with trans characters and actors.
Actually, Nolan IS kind of making a point about trans people - This take by Flint Del Sol on the character Sinon both in history and in the new Odyssey movie is interesting.
Yasmin Finney's Elle Grapples With the U.K.’s Trans Rights Rollback in Heartstopper Forever - I have to confess I'd never heard of Heartstopper before this. For other old, out of touch people like myself, it is a Netflix series based on a graphic novel series by Alice Oseman. Heartstopper Forever is a movie that continues the story.
In the YouTube video The Truth About Heartstopper's Trans Rep Jamie Raines discusses the trans representation in the Heartstopper show.
Book bans have gotta go
Amid Queer Book Censorship and Attacks on Drag, Kyle Chu Will Not Be Silenced (sometimes the headline says it all)
Clay County School District In Florida Considers Getting Rid Of Libraries In Response To LGBTQ+ Books from Erin Reed - School libraries were already endangered in many parts of the U.S. before this recent onslaught of book banning. The book bans are not helping.
Authors in the news
Trans writer Marian Thomas Bayker was runner-up in the First Page contest from WriterHouse and C-VILLE Weekly.
Portland’s Best Secret Poetry Club - a nice little article about a poetry club in Portland, Oregon started by a trans woman.
Q&A: Joan Tierney, Author of ‘Misery’s Wife’ - an interview with the author of a "queer and cli-fi reimagining of a Portuguese folktale about a young trans woman who must save her elder sisters from the King of the Air, the King of the Sea, and the King of Misery." See the TLDB entry for Misery's Wife.
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