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They/Them | 🌈 Queer & Disabled 🩼 | Book reviewer 📖 | Indie Bookseller 📚 | Lover of all things speculative fiction 🖤✨🗡️
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So you've had my recs but here's what's on my TBR with aro representation 💚🤍🖤

Definitely gonna try and get to a few during Aro Week 💚🤍🖤

Full list in alt text ✌️

#Booksky #QueerBookSky #AroWeek #aromantic #asaw
Digital graphic recommending books with aromantic spectrum representation. The graphic has a dark green background. In the bottom left and top right corners are a wavy depiction of the Aromantic flag which is five stripes of dark green, light green, white, Gray and black. At the top aligned left is text reading "books with arospec representation on my tbr" in a white serif font with a light green drop shadow. Below that are the covers of 12 books across 3 lines each with a light green drop shadow. The books are, from left to right, as follows: - Godly Heathens by H E Edgmon - In The Care Of Magic by Robin Jo Margaret - In The Jaws Of An Oak by Emryn Bird - Tea You At The Altar by Rebecca Thorne - Moonshine by Jasmine Gower - Awakenings by Claudie Arseneault - Natural Outlaws And Fractured Sovereignty by S M Pearce - Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault - The Stones Stay Silent by Danny Ride - Elatsoe by Darcy Little Badger - Archivist Wasp by Nicole Kornher-Stace - Come Drink With Me by Michelle Kan Under Come Drink With Me is my username @ermreading written in white serif font with a light green drop shadow and under that is the hashtag #ArospecAwarenessWeek
February 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Well, they got me, I've secretly been lying to you all... I don't actually read 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My whole life is apparently a lie 😂
Screenshot of Character headcanon generator. It has a lime green background. At the top is black sans serif text reading "character headcanon generator" underneath that is a white searchbar with the name "El" input. Underneath that is black serif font reading "El does not know how to read". At the bottom is a grey button with the text "create headcanon"
February 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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As it's Aro Week, I had to give you some of my fave aro books 💚🤍🖤

All of these made me feel so seen in my aro identity 💚🤍🖤

I could definitely do more if you guys want part 2 👀

Full list in the alt text ✌️

#booksky #queerbooksky #aromantic #aroweek
Digital graphic recommending books with aromantic spectrum representation. The graphic has a dark green background. In the bottom left and top right corners are a wavy depiction of the Aromantic flag which is five stripes of dark green, light green, white, Gray and black. At the top aligned left is text reading "books with arospec representation" in a white serif font with a light green drop shadow. Below that are the covers of 12 books across 3 lines each with a light green drop shadow. The books are, from left to right, as follows: - Hopeless Aromantic by Samantha Rendle - Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel - The Bruising Of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia - Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - Common Bonds: A Speculative Aromantic Anthology edited by Claudie Arseneault, C. T. Callahan, B. R. Sanders and RoAnna Sylver - City Of Strife by Claudie Arseneault - Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White - Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter - This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson - Tarnished Are The Stars by Rosiee Thor - Two Dark Moons by Avi Silver - The Last 8 by Laura Pohl Under under the last 8 is my username @ermreading Britain in white serif font with a light green drop shadow and under that is the hashtag #ArospecAwarenessWeek
February 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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February marks Queer History Month in the UK and Black History Month in the US so here's a bunch of Black Queer books that you can read in February, and beyond, no matter which side of the pond you're on 🖤🌈📖

#diversebooksky #booksky
A digital graphic with a beige background, 15 book covers are on it across 3 lines and text at the bottom reads "Black & Queer Books" in black capitalised serif font. The books, starting at the top left are as follows: The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi, Faebound by Saara El-Arifi, King And The Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender, The Unbroken by C L Clark, The Deep by Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon, Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjeh-Brenyah, The King Is Dead by Benjamin Dean, Ace Of Spades by Farídah Abíke-Iyimide, Pet by Akwaeke Emezi, The Death Of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, Dear Senthuran by Akwaeke Emezi and finally How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
February 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I know my bio says "Lover of all things Speculative fiction" and I promise at some point I'll give you more specfic recs but rn I'm loving non-fiction and wanted to share 15 of my essential reading non-fiction recs 🖤📚

I do have more so lmk if you want a part 2 ✌️

#nonficbooksky #booksky #nonfiction
A digital graphic with a beige background, 15 book covers are on it across 3 lines and text at the bottom reads "Non-fiction" in black capitalised serif font. The books, starting at the top left are as follows: The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein, This Arab Is Queer edited by Elias Jahshan, They Called Me A Lioness by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri, Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Paper, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Disfigured by Amanda Leduc, My Body Is Distant by Paige Maylott, They Called Us Enemy by George Takei in collaboration with Eisinger, Scott & Becker, None Of The Above by Travis Alabanza, The Transgender Issue by Shon Faye, I'm Afraid Of Men by Vivek Shraya, How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones, How Westminster Works And Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
January 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I've been thinking ALOT about They Called Us Enemy by George Takei in collaboration with Eisinger, Scott & Becker

It's a graphic novel memoir about Takei's childhood growing up in Japanese American internment camps

An absolutely essential read for right now

#diversebooksky #graphicnovelsky
The cover of the graphic memoir They Called Us Enemy by George Takei written in collaboration with Eisinger, Scott and Becker. The cover is an illustration of a line of Japanese people heading towards an internment camp directed by a soldier with a rifle. In the foreground of the shot is a young George Takei looking back at the camera holding a suitcase
January 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Took a couple hours to do some social media admin and try and get some consistency across the various places I exist on (profile pictures aside 😅)
Screenshot of my YouTube profile @ermreading Screenshot of my Threads profile @ermreading Screenshot of my Instagram page @ermreading Screenshot of my Bluesky page @ermreading
January 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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I'm really in my non-fiction era rn, I'm currently reading my 3rd this month!

The Science Of Racism by Keon West is about gathering scientific data showing when & where racism occurs

There's actually a huge amount of evidence across a wide variety of study areas

#diversebooksky #booksky
Photograph of the book The Science Of Racism: everything you need to know but probably don't - yet by Keon West laying on a dark blue fluffy blanket. The cover is entirely white with text in the centre stating the title. The text is in sans serif font across four lines and each word is a different colour representing skin tones ranging from pale to dark and mostly blurred apart from within the confines of an unlined circle where the text is in focus and all In black as if being seen through a microscope lens. The author's name is written in dark brown text at the bottom left corner
January 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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The amazingly lovely @katrinaslibrary.bsky.social sent me some cookies for Lunar New Year, how pretty are these!!!
A rectangular ten with rounded corners holding several cookies for Lunar New Year. There is one and the shape of a lucky cat which is purple. There is one in the shape of a pineapple which is yellow. There are two in the shape of snakes which are red. There are three in the shape of fish which are green. And there are four circular toplets which are a natural dough colour
January 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Whenever I wanna revel in how much I love the disabled community and how we shape our realities, essay collections edited by Alice Wong are immediately what I reach for 🥰

Disability Intimacy is so beautiful & the way it celebrates all kinds of love & desire filled my soul with warmth 🖤
Book cover for Disability Intimacy: Essays On Love, Care and Desire Edited by Alice Wong. The background of the cover is a light cream and there are three large flowers in dark pink, dark purple and burnt orange color in the centre surrounded by bright green leaves. The text of the title and editor name is in a black sans serif font and overlays the flowers across the whole cover. At the bottom is a quote that reads "'Alice Wong is one of our foremost disability advocates' — Esmé Weijun Wang author of The collected schizophrenias" The general vibe is sensuous and bright.
January 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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🖤 Saturday reading 🖤

#booksky #diversebooksky #darkacademia
A photograph of the book An Academy by Alexis Henderson laying half on a grey fluffy blanket, half on a grey sofa. The cover of the book is black with a gray illustration of a university style building at the bottom with the title overlayed in gold text. In the middle of the cover is a gold moth with its wings pinioned under the top is the author's name in the same gold.
January 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Today was a good day for diverse charity shop finds 🥰

#diversebooksky📚💙
Photograph of a white person's hand holding two books in front of a white wall with a wooden bed frame crossing the bottom of the frame. The two books are held splayed out with the covers facing the camera. The leftmost book is your silence will not protect you by Audre Lorde and the rightmost book is New Suns 2 edited by Nisi Shawl
January 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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In honor of Booktok, what is a book you found because of Booktok that ended up being a 5⭐️ read?

Mine has to be A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair 🗡️🖤

#booksky 🪐📚💙
A picture of the cover for A Broken Blade by Melissa Blair. The cover is a close up of an Indigenous woman with silver eyes' face. She is wearing a hood and fighting leathers with a pin on her collar that is a circle with a knife crossing through it. She is surrounded by falling red leaves. At the top is the authors name in white serif text and at the bottom in gold ombre serif text across four lines reads "A Broken Blade The Halfling Saga"
January 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Whenever I see a piece of news or legislation attacking my community, I take comfort in the horror genre 🖤

Horror has a fantastic way of giving voice to our anger, our pain & our anxiety about the future 🔥

I hope you find some solace here 💙🩷🤍🩷💙

#booksky #transbooksky #horrorbooksky
Digital graphic. Beige background. There are pictures of 4 book covers, a row of 3 at the top and one below it on the right hand side with light shadows extending out from the bottom of them. The books are Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White and Transmuted by Eve Harms. In the bottom left corner is brown text in all caps saying "Trans Horror" across two rows with a brown line underneath it
January 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Currently Reading - Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
Book by Frances Ryan

I needed some non fiction today & as a disabled persom in Britain myself, I've been feeling the weight of this austerity, hopefully this'll give some much needed catharsis

#booksky #disabledbooksky
Book cover for Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People by Frances Ryan. The cover has a blue background with a black version of the disability symbol of a person in a wheelchair. Over the top is white text with an eroded texture stating the title and author's name as well as a quote from John McDonald the shadow chancellor at the time of publication which reads "best devastating book should shake our political system to its foundations"
January 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM