Trans Librarian
@translibrarian.bsky.social
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Retired librarian. Can be found at https://translibrarian.com building the trans literature database and occasionally blogging. My links: https://campsite.bio/translibrarian
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A 1932 novel, now in its unexpurgated form, that "celebrates rather than pathologizes its effeminate and sexually adventurous protagonist." #transbooks

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antoniaaquilante.bsky.social
A snippet from A Dance of Water and Air for this week’s Rainbow Snippet in honor of its October 1st anniversary.

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#romancebooks #fantasyromance #romantasy #lgbtqromance #lgbtqbooks #bisexualbooks #demisexualbooks #transbooks #rainbowsnippets #booksky
Rainbow Snippets October 4-5
​​​​​​​​​​ ​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes...
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translibrarian.bsky.social
Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A collection of essays in which Riki Wilchins "urges us to imagine a future beyond “male” and “female,” where gender is self-determined, expansive, and free." #transbooks

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Burn the Binary!, Vol. 2 - The Trans Literature Database
In this searing and accessible collection of essays, pioneering activist and writer Riki Wilchins dismantles the rigid gender norms that have shaped our lives.
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anotherindiewriter.com
My novella of trans self-discovery is now up for pre-order! You can get Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina (short name Opus) for preorder now. Release date December 12,2025. Ebook $3. Paperback $8.

Thread time.
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb
Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank
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translibrarian.bsky.social
Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): More than a dive into gender identity; it’s also a look at the difference between coming out as trans in 2000 when many people reacted to her transition with love and the present era of blowback and fear." #transbooks

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Cleavage – Jennifer Finney Boylan - Trans Lit Database
Cleavage provides hope for a future in which we all have the freedom to live joyfully as men, as women, and in the space between us.
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Fiction: Firebugs by Nino Bulling! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
Image has a red background with the gold Lambda Literary Awards  seal. On the left is the winning title’s book cover and on the right is the text: The 2025 Lambda Literary Awards Winner, with the category below it.
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Nonfiction: Pretty by KB Brookins! 🎉🎉🎉 #Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for Transgender Poetry: Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski! 🎉🎉🎉 @zefrrr.bsky.social @noemipress.bsky.social
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Studies: When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader by Susan Stryker, edited by McKenzie Wark! @susanstryker.bsky.social @mckenziewark.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 Lambda Literary Award Winner for LGBTQ+ Nonfiction: The Other Olympians by Michael Waters! 🎉🎉🎉
#Lammys2025 #LammyAwards
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queerazon.bsky.social
Perverts by Kay Gabriel

A collective dream of queer desire and resistance, Perverts explores how private longing becomes shared consciousness amid rising anti-trans panic. Desire as politics, poetry as organizing.

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#QueerBooks #KayGabriel #TransBooks #QueerActivism
translibrarian.bsky.social
Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): An anthology of stories, poems and art. "To be trans and disabled means experiencing ableism within our trans communities and transphobia within our disabled communities." #transbooks

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beedokfern.bsky.social
As someone self-publishing... um... I have a neocities? It's *mostly* finished. Bookmark that if you're going off social media.
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sith-art.bsky.social
I’ve said this many times, and I hope you’re not sick of hearing it because you’ll prolly hear it many times again:

Art is the Journey, not the Destination, and AIGuys fundamentally do not understand this.

Art is the Means, not the End, the sum of it’s parts, which is why AI images feel so empty.
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Read bad art. Write bad art. Critique bad art.
Here’s a statement that might be radical in 2025: ‘bad art’ is still art, not content or slop. “But what about AI?” What about it? It demands that we interrogate the definition of art itself, and therefore here is mine: art is a practice, not a product.

Art is not something we consume. Art is something we do.

Artificially-generated ‘art’ does not fall beyond the purview of our definition of art because it lacks aesthetic merit. It has nothing to do with aesthetics. AI ‘art’ is not art because it is not something that the ‘artist’ has done.
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proud-geek.co.uk
SHY TRANS BANSHEE by Tony Santorella is out today! It’s the super queer and darkly funny follow-up to Bored Gay Werewolf, filled with werewolves, crime, supernatural mystery, millennial ennui and queer found family.

Grab yourself a copy here: proud-geek.co.uk/product-page...

#booksky #transbooks
Book cover for Shy Trans Banshee by Tony Santorella

Blurb:

Brian, Nik and Darby - three friends practiced in ennui, binge-drinking, hooking up with strangers and fighting supernatural crime (when Brian's not committing it as a werewolf once a month) - have been sent by Abe Van Helsing (yes, one of those Van Helsings) to try to track down a colleague who has gone missing in London.
 
As they putz around the city, following any leads that might help them find their British counterpart, they uncover a clairvoyancy smuggling ring, located right in the heart of the financial district. Who's kidnapping all the fortune tellers in Soho and why? And is it coincidence, fate or something more sinister altogether that Maeve, a timid trans woman taking time out of her job to track down her birth mother, turns up on the gang's doorstep... and has the uncanny ability to know just what's going to happen next?
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translibrarian.bsky.social
Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): James moves into a haunted house where he befriends the ghost of an 18th century trans boy. Can the 2 of them survive what hides in the basement? #transbooks

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translibrarian.bsky.social
Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): James moves into a haunted house where he befriends the ghost of an 18th century trans boy. Can the 2 of them survive what hides in the basement? #transbooks

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translibrarian.bsky.social
Thanks for the fact check. I was on my phone, and missed the obvious fakeness of it. Couldn't find a graphic that matched this, but some of the titles are on ALA's most challenged lists. Still, this and the most challenged lists are good for finding things to read. www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...
Top 10 and Frequently Challenged Books Archive
Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books, using its database and media reports.
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translibrarian.bsky.social
Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): After moving to rural Vermont, Azar befriends an aging sci-fi writer and his nonbinary teen, Tristan, in this YA graphic novel. #transbooks

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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "Alien meets Midsommar" in this alien invasion story set in rural West Virginia. #transbooks

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