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Newspaper Blackout by Austin Kleon

3.75

Boys Run the Riot, Vol. 1 by Keito Gaku

4.5

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Transphobia, Acephobia/Arophobia

The Murder Next Door: A Graphic Memoir by Hugh D'Andrade

3.5

Love Habit by TL Clark
Did not finish book. Stopped at 30%.

Just not for me.  I found it relied too much on knowledge of the medieval setting, and the use of historical language, while very well done, just wasn't working for me.  

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

adventurous dark emotional

5.0

Sainted Love Vol. 1: A Time to Fight by Steve Orlando

4.0

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery

challenging dark emotional informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

I didn’t know much about this history of AIDS in America, in fact what little I did know came from watching RENT, reading Tales of the City, and hearing older queer folks talking about our own lost generation.  For the longest time I thought AIDS had taken place in the 70s.  Which is pretty ridiculous given that I was in HIGH SCHOOL in the 90’s.  

However, that’s kind of the point.  People weren’t talking about it.  We didn’t have social media and the government was actively ignoring the epidemic.  This is not even mentioning the fact that it actually had been around longer in black and brown communities who were deemed not important enough to pay attention to.  It’s really only because of white supremacy that people finally started listening, when it started to affect wealthy white people.  

This book is both a valuable history lesson and a look into the personal lives and dramas of the people who made up an art collective called Gran Fury.  They created the slogan Silence = Death and were very involved with the AIDS activist group Act Up!

Personally, I found the book to be a little too heavy on interpersonal relationship dynamics and not as much on the history as I might have liked, but it was still a very valuable history to learn about.

Almost Sunset by Wahab Algarmi

4.0

The Brightness Between Us by Eliot Schrefer

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0