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Aunt Lute Books

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Nonprofit intersectional feminist press based in San Francisco. Since 1982. 🌈🔥 Visit us at AuntLute.com.

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Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 20h

❤️‍🔥🩸CARAMELLE & CARMILLA by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu is out TODAY - just in time for spooky season! Available here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/caramelle-carmilla-jewelle-gomez/5a0321eeca90286a?ean=9781951874094&next=t

Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 20h

Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 2d

We're very excited to celebrate The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice (Aunt Lute Books, 2026) with the world next year!

Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! One way to honor Indigenous Peoples Day is to read books by queer indigenous authors. Four we recommend are:

The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
The Way We Make Sense by Dawn Karima Pettigrew
Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! One way to honor Indigenous Peoples Day is to read books by queer indigenous authors. Four books we love and recommend:
(1) The Divining Season by Gwendolyn Paradice (Aunt Lute Books, 2026).

(2) Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq (Penguin Random House 2019).

(3) The Way We Make Sense by Dawn Karima Pettigrew (Aunt Lute Books, 2002).

(4) Buffalo is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022).

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Kenzie ✨ @notknz.is.tall.fyi · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ✨

Info graphic by: @ODDDAUGHTERCO
Heading: ways to honor indigenous people today & every day.
-learn about whose land you live on
-read books by indigenous authors
-research issues that directly affect the native population and vote accordingly
-support native artists and businesses
-educate yourself and honor the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women

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Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 4d

The latest from Jewelle Gomez is out in 4 days! 🩸❤️‍🔥 Two vampire stories. Two authors. Two striking meditations on dependency and desire. Pre-order Caramelle & Carmilla from Bookshop.org: https://ow.ly/EyL650X9X5c

Jewelle Gomez standing outdoors near a modern building with large windows.

Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 4d

Great list! 😍

Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) for including Babaylan in your 2025 reading list! 📚Happy #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth, everyone. Find your next read: https://www.clmp.org/news/a-reading-list-for-filipino-american-history-month-2025/

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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 7d

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social

action.everylibrary.org/bookbanpledge

Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

action.everylibrary.org

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Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 7d

Borderlands: La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa! ❤️‍🔥

Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 7d

Whether you're reading Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan La Fanu, or Doll Seed by Michele T. Berger, come get spooky with us! Explore the latest Aunt Lute book and preorder here: bookshop.org/p/books/cara...

Aunt Lute Books @auntlute.bsky.social · 8d

❤️‍🔥 Introducing Caramelle & Carmilla by Jewelle Gomez and J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Two #vampire stories, two authors, two striking meditations on dependency and desire. 🗓 Debuting October 14, 2025. Link in bio to pre-order! #speclit

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 9d

September 15 to October 15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. ✨ Celebrate with one of these Lammys winners or finalists by Hispanic authors.

Graphic acknowledging Hispanic Heritage Month featuring four Lammys winners or finalists: "Call Me Cassandra: A Novel" by Marcial Gala, "The Prince of Los Cocuyos" by Richard Blanco, "Jawbone" by Mónica Ojeda, and "Her Body and Other Parties" by Carmen Maria Machado.

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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social · 13d

October is #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Celebrate with us by picking reads from our 2025 reading list featuring indie presses and lit mags: www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

A Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

For Filipino American History Month, observed annually during the month of October, we asked our member presses and literary magazines to share some of the literature by Filipino American writers…

www.clmp.org

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