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Listening Through Queer History

In all the discussion about how reading is necessary in a world of book bannings, I want to highlight accessible reading. If sitting down and reading a physical book is not something your body wants to do, there are other ways. Ebooks are great, especially when it’s physically challenging to hold up a heavy book, but my personal favourite accessibility tool is audiobooks.

Not every queer history book has been recorded as an audiobook, but there are some amazing ones that deserve attention, which is why I made a libro.fm playlist (linked above) for some of my favourites so far. I hope this makes accessing queer history easier for people who otherwise would feel distanced in the often elitist/ableist world of academia.

In the future I would love it if more textbooks were made into audiobooks, but that will of course take time. For now many of these books on this list are something someone who has never read about queer history before could pick up. There is an array of identities, age ranges, and subjects. I hope everyone finds something to love!

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Anatomical Venus

Courtney Bates-Hardy 

Anatomical Venus is a visceral collection of poems that invoke anatomical models, feminine monsters, and little-known historical figures. It’s a journey through car accidents and physio appointments, 18th century morgues and modern funeral homes. Grappling with the cyclical nature of chronic pain, these poems ask how to live with and love the self in pain. Magic seeps through, in the form of fairy tales, in the stories of powerful monsters, in the introspection of the tarot, and the transcendence of queer love.

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Queer history includes sex.

Queer history includes in-fighting.

Queer history includes discrimination against other marginalized groups.

Queer history includes lateral violence.

Queer history includes cheating.

Queer history includes discomfort.

Queer history includes confusion.

If your studying of queer history doesn’t include these elements, that might be a red flag. Sanitizing queer history doesn’t help anyone. Treat history with the nuance, compassion, and love it deserves, especially when it’s queer.

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“I love the care and mutual aid we give each other in queer, trans, sick and disabled and working class and queer and trans Black, Indigenous, and people of color (QTBIPOC) communities. As a sick and disabled, working-class, brown femme, I wouldn’t be alive without communities of care, and neither would most people I love. Some of my fiercest love is reserved for how femmes and sick and disabled queers show up for each other when every able-bodied person “forgets” about us. Sick and disabled folks will get up from where we’ve been projectile vomiting for the past eight hours to drive a spare Effexor to their friend’s house who just ran out. We do this because we love each other, and because we often have a sacred trust not to forget about each other. Able-bodied people who think we are “weak” have no idea; every day of our disabled lives is like an Ironman triathlon. Disabled, sick, poor, working-class, sex-working and Black and brown femmes are some of the toughest and most resilient folks I know. You have to develop complex strengths to survive this world as us.”
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Color photograph taken at the 1994 San Francisco Pride parade that depicts a group of trans men marching in a parade with a sign made by Loren Cameron that reads “FTM TRANS PRIDE.” In the front row from left to right: Max Wolf Valerio, Matt Rice, David Harrison, Loren Cameron, and an unknown person. In the back row, in the crowd, from left to right: Susan Stryker (holding baby), Brynn Craffey, and Stephan Thorne. Digitized copy of the original photo provided by David Harrison.

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Yes, absolutely! Here are some names to look into!

Amelio Robles Ávila

Nancy Cárdenas

Frida Kahlo

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Wonderful question! Yes, I actually have read a bit about this!

For a more modern look at how homophobia is enforced and expanded culturally:

The Pink Line

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For a very expansive historical look at this discussion:

The Construction of Homosexuality

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For a book that looks at specifically the heterosexual experience of this:

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

I hope this helps!

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Frisky Collections Volume 1, Frisky and Queer

Michelle Mars

Listen on Audiobook

Frisky Rivalry:

I met Sean when we were only kids and since then we’ve competed for almost everything from class president to crushes. When we run into each other, both waiting for our blind dates, at my favorite café, things don’t go as planned. For one, why am I still attracted to him? For two, no really, why am I still wanting him? Anyone?

Frisky Arrangement:

When I walked into Desjardins’ Garden, ready to place an order for my next influencer event, I was expecting to choose a floral design. I was not expecting the owner, Alex, to take my breath away. But, would they like what I have to offer? Could they be my perfect sub?

Frisky Engagement:

All I wanted to do was propose to the love of my life, Camila. When my perfect plans begin to unravel, so do I. With Purim around the corner, will I be able to overcome all the things that go wrong? And, will my gorgeous girl agree to be mine?

To find out what shenanigans these couples get into, grab a snack, a fan, and perhaps a quiet moment to yourself.

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“You all know I’m queer, but I still have to play the cool hijabi[…] The not too religious hijabi, the hijabi who can rock it with the alternative crowd, who won’t judge you, who will be accepting and tolerant, the Good Muslim. I’m in full on silent rant mode now. Unlike those Bad Muslims, the religious ones, the ones who are inconvenient in their practice, the ones you have to pause for as they break their fasts, the ones who have to step out to pray. The marginalized ones you would fight for, organize for, protest for, but would never be friends with, who you would studiously avoid at a brunch. I’m the cool hijabi only because you’re projecting your xenophobic narrow-mindedness, your lack of imagination of Muslims into me. You’re still projecting them. Your prejudices are still in the room. ”
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Faltas

Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist

Cecilia Gentili 

From legendary activist and Pose actress Cecilia Gentili comes the groundbreaking debut of a transgender Latina childhood that re-orders the field of LGBTQ+ memoir

Winner of the 2023 ALA Stonewall Book Award Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award - As heard on NPR’s Latino USA - Finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Non-Fiction
In these hilarious and heartbreaking letters, Cecilia Gentili reinvents the trans memoir, putting the confession squarely between the writer and her enemies, paramours and friends. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist’s daughter, her father’s mistress, her best friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply into the bitter cruelty, buried secrets, and delicious gossip of a small town. Is she here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both! And more! A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Faltas is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, or even grow.

Reading through the Stonewall Book Awards

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