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Little Rot by Akwaeke Emezi

Little Rot

Akwaeke Emezi

276 pages • hardcover • 2024

5.0salemander's review
fiction lgbtqia+ literary challenging dark tense fast-paced
Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse

Mirrored Heavens

Between Earth and Sky #3

Rebecca Roanhorse

597 pages • hardcover • 2024

5.0salemander's review
fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ adventurous dark emotional medium-paced
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture

Sherronda J. Brown

223 pages • paperback • 2022

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Kit Heyam

343 pages • hardcover • 2022

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

Akwaeke Emezi

240 pages • hardcover • 2021

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison

Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

Da’Shaun Harrison

109 pages • paperback • 2021

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction lgbtqia+ politics race sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Shut Up You're Pretty by Téa Mutonji

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

135 pages • paperback • 2019

5.0salemander's review
fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

373 pages • hardcover • 2022

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction memoir politics race hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced
Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

Another Word for Love: A Memoir

Carvell Wallace

253 pages • hardcover • 2024

5.0salemander's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler

Adulthood Rites

Xenogenesis #2

Octavia E. Butler

277 pages • paperback • 1988

5.0salemander's review
fiction science fiction adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced