Theo1d ago
48th read of 2026:

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

The extrapolated horror of being the replacement child after the first one dies, but actually a monster with a tail-hand. Or the extrapolated horror of when your beloved dog kills all the neighborhood pets and then tries to drink grandma’s blood, but you cannot put it down. Or the extrapolated horror of being mutilated upon birth (like many intersex children) to conform to a “normal” child.

Also, everyone is gay!

I really didn’t know where this was going most of the time, and that was fun. The time jump threw me off. The ending felt more obvious than earned.

4/5 stars

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Show threadWendyApr 27
6,588 books were pulled from libraries last year—the highest since 1990. The strategy is volume: drown librarians in paperwork. But the community is fighting back. https://twp.ai/9OUYin #BookBans #Libraries #FreeSpeech #LGBTQBooks #DefendReading
Show threadwendythedruidApr 27

6,588 books were pulled from libraries last year—the highest since 1990. The strategy is volume: drown librarians in paperwork. But the community is fighting back.

https://twp.ai/E59nur

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TheoApr 11
39th read of 2026:

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline

5/5 for Marsha. Unfortunately, this book was poorly written. The information was badly organized, repetitive, padded, and sometimes sloppy. I finished thinking that the author needed more editing and research assistance — seriously, Penguin Books!

It’s a shame, because this was one of my most anticipated reads. Marsha deserves all the flowers, and for everyone to know her name and the work she did for trans and all LGBTQIA+ rights and community care. I recommend the Afterlives podcast S2 by Raquel Willis, which covered Marsha’s life, over this book. (Tourmaline was featured on the podcast, and her contributions were one of the reasons I was excited to read this!)

2/5 stars

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ninsiana0Apr 9

Read EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE by Sarah Maria Griffin if you love losing everything & starting over, lush greenery, decrepit shopping malls, impersonal digital spaces, empty & eerie backrooms, inescapable histories, decaying ecosystems, something rotting, something growing, something watching you...

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Advocate.com [Unofficial]Apr 7

Iowa can enforce previously blocked ‘don’t say gay’ law, appeals court rules

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wilApr 6

I read To Broadway by Maurane Mazars, a #GraphicNovel with images that made me think of Jules Feiffer's passionate modern dancers. That's apt because it's set in the late 1950s.

Uli is a young gay man studying dance at a prestigious studio in Germany. But no one there understands his love for popular dance. (One of my favorite scenes is of him alone in a theater, entranced by what I recognized as an impressionistic watercolor vision of "An American in Paris.")

He decides to pursue his Broadway dream, but nothing is as he expected; his new friends mock pop culture too, and the Black American dancer he fell for in Germany won't pursue a relationship with him.

There's not a lot of text in this--it's mainly images and atmosphere and you have to work a bit to follow the story. I found it very relatable and often beautiful.

(Thanks to the #QueerLiberationLibrary for making the book available)

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Cake for TDoV event! because goddamn do we need cake this year with everything going on. #tdov #trr26 #connecticut #danbury #transrights #readathon #transDayOfVisibility #QueerBooks #LGBTQBooks
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Cap off the Trans Rights Readathon on Transgender Day of Visibility and discuss what you read and get recs from other participants to keep reading!

There will be CAKE! 🍰🎂

Just want to stop in and be with community? That works, too.

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wilMar 29

My third #TransRightsReadathon book was The Left Hand of Dog, an excellent recommendation from @Knien . It's just the kind of audiobook I like -- lots of distinct voices, and all British as a plus. 😂 The story is good silly fun, full of geeky references -- Spock's brain, I about died! -- but also has a lot of humanity, as femme-agender-asexual-disabled Lem finds herself feeling home at last with the motliest crew of silly aliens imaginable.

I think it might have felt too twee for my tastes in print, but the audio really sells it. First in a series.

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