Celebrating Queer Women Literature!

[image description: a set of graphics titled Queer SFF with a rainbow flag background on each, a book cover, and a blurb. The books and descriptions are:

Amberlough by Lara Elena Donnelly: “Le Carre meets Cabaret in this debut spy thriller as a gay double-agent schemes to protect his smuggler lover during the rise of a fascist government coup”

The Steel Seraglio by Linda Carey, Louise Carey, and Mike Carey: After a violent coup the sultan’s 365 concubines are first exiled and then ordered dead. But the women have their own plans.

Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks: Shaftal is a conquered nation. The Shaftali are fighting back in a guerrilla war that’s lasted fifteen years, but as they fight Shaftal is razed to the ground around them.

The Root by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun: “A dark, gritty urban fantasy debut set in modern-day San Francisco, filled with gods, sinister government agencies, and the worlds of dark magic hidden just below the surface”

Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn (the background is split diagonally, half rainbow flag and half asexual flag): “Sometimes failure is just the beginning”

Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee: “To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general.”

Santa Olivia by Jacqueline Carey: “Jacqueline Carey’s taken on comic book superheroes and the classic werewolf myth”

This Other World by A.C. Buchanan: Vonika has built a life and career on an alien planet, but now her country is soon to go to war

Passing Strange by Ellen Klages: An enchanting tale of queer women and their love in 1940 San Francisco

Borderline by Mishell Baker: Millie’s residing in a mental hosptial when she receives a mysterious offer from a group that polices the traffic between our world and the fae]

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coolcurrybooks:

SFF books with lesbian leads.

[image description a series of images labelled Queer SFF, each with a book cover, a synopsis, and a lesbian pride flag in the background. The books and synopses are:

The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie: Lesbian pirates battle genetically engineered sea monsters in this young adult science fiction debut
Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson: Art as magic. A city afraid of birds. Welcome to Leiodare, a futuristic city like no other
Afterparty by Daryl Gregory: A mind-bending science fiction thriller in a future where brain altering drugs can be simply printed… and one woman’s quest to control what she unwittingly unleashed
The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley: Lesbians in space
Fires of the Faithful by Naomi Kritzer: A teenage musician turns revolutionary in a world wracked by life sucking magic and an oppressive regime
The Thousand Names by Django Wexler: “Enter an epic fantasy world that echoes with the thunder of muskets and the clang of steel–but where the real battle is against a subtle and sinister magic…"
Dreadnought by April Daniels: "Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero.” (This image has the background split diagonally, half lesbian pride flag and half trans pride flag) ]

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bibliosapphic:

Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman
“Her heart pounding, Clara drew near to her mermaid Martian princess and gave her the sweetest, most satisfying kiss one could manage in four seconds.
It wasn’t much, but she came away with her lips wet and her body tingling for more.”

[image description: two images with loopy text from Knit One, Girl Two by Shira Glassman laid on top. The first shows palm trees against a blue sky with clouds, and the text “Lemme show you…” The next has multicolored yarn in the background and the text “how we kiss on Mars.”]

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nomournersnofunerals:

BOOKS READ IN 2017 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Once we talk of dancing. She rises and lifts her skirt, to show me a step. Then she pulls me to my feet, and turns and turns me; and I feel, where she presses against me, the quickening beat of her heart - I feel it pass from her to me and become mine.

[image description: 4 graphics with black-and-white photos in the background and white text laid over them. The first shows a woman putting on white gloves with the text “Fingersmith Sarah Waters” with a dotted circle surrounding it. The next image shows a woman from the next down. She is wearing an all-covering white dress and white gloves and is reading a book that is open in her lap. The text is “I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart, so hard, it hurt me.” The third image shows an ornate iron gate, one side opened, with the text “If thoughts her hammers or picks I should have been free, ten thousand times over. But my thoughts were more like poisions. I had so many, they made me sick.” The last image shows two women laying down and embracing. One appears to be wearing a long-sleeved dress, the other appears naked, but both are only partially in frame. The text, again encircled in a dotted line, is “Fingermith Sarah Waters” (Genders and pronouns inferred from Fingersmith characters)]

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[image description: a graphic with the text Lesbian Cozy Mysteries. In the background are the covers of the books listed below.]

Lesbian Cozy Mysteries

Vote for your favorites (or add more!) at the Goodreads list: Lesbian & Bi Cozy Mysteries.

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coolcurrybooks:

Queer SFF books by POC authors.

[image description: a set of 10 graphics showing books with a brief description and a pride flag in the background:

Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee, bi flag
Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson, lesbian flag
The Root by Na'amen Gobert Tilahun, rainbow flag
The Devourers by Indra Das, trans and genderqueer flags
Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee, rainbow flag
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore, trans flag
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova, bi flag
The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden, rainbow and trans flags
Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston, bi flag
The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez, lesbian flag

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a-wlw-reads:

Hey tumblr so I need your help! My school always had one of those “Read Across America” maps with young adult novels or romances or whatever (evidently, I’m American) but I’ve never seen anything comparable for wlw. I’ve tried to rely on my memory and on other people’s recs but I’m only (exactly) halfway through. Any suggestions to fill in these missing states? I’ve tried to avoid stories that take place across multiple locations. Or offer more options for the ones I already have, the more the merrier.
Alabama : Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flag
Alaska :
Arizona :
Arkansas :
California : Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour, Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman, Frog Music by Emma Donoghue, The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revovyr
Colorado : Marionette by T.B. Markinson, Sleight of Hand by Mark Henwick
Connecticut :
Delaware :
Florida : Breathing Underwater by Lu Vickers
Georgia : Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
Hawaii :
Idaho :
Illinois : Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair
Indiana : Tessa Masterson Will Go to Prom by Emily Franklin and Brendan Halpin
Iowa :
Kansas : Far From Xanadu by Julie Anne Peters
Kentucky : Run by Kody Keplinger
Louisiana : Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen
Maine :
Maryland :
Massachusetts : Mermaid in Chelsea Creek by Michelle Tea, Map of Ireland by Stephanie Grant
Michigan :
Minnesota : Sister Mischief by Laura Goode, My Year Zero by Rachel Gold
Mississippi :
Missouri :
Montana : The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth
Nebraska : Not Otherwise Specified by Hannah Moskowitz, Over You by Amy Reed
Nevada : Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee
New Hampshire :
New Jersey :
New Mexico : Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Waters
New York : Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova, Annie On My Mind by Nancy Garden, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name by Audre Lorde, Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
North Carolina :
North Dakota :
Ohio : Fat Angie by E.E. Charlton-Trujillo
Oklahoma :
Oregon : Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera, Forgive Me If I’ve Told You This Before by Karelia Stetz-Waters
Pennsylvania :
Rhode Island : The Red Tree by Caitlín R. Kiernan
South Carolina :
South Dakota :
Tennessee :
Texas : Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory by Emma Pérez
Utah :
Vermont :
Virginia : As I Descended by Robin Talley, Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley, Jericho by Ann McMan
Washington :
West Virginia :
Wisconsin :
Wyoming :

[image description: a graphic of the US, with the states filled in with the book covers of the titles listed below. About half of the states are blank.]

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tayarijones:

When you read the whole quote, you’ll see it’s more than just a punchy talking point.

[image description: a graphic showing Audre Lorde with one her quotations, against a purple background. The text reads “Those of us who strand outside the circle of society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference–those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older–know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those others identified as outside the structures in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths.” In larger text is “For the master’s tools will be never dismantle the master’s house.” It continues in smaller text, “They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master’s house as their only source of support.”]

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