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Short story no. 2 from Queers Who Don’t Quit, This Is What You Get by Evie Riojas: A transwoman finds herself between a rock and a hard place when someone from her past threatens to destroy her future… Out now! https://www.queer-pack.com/books/queers-who-dont-quit-2020

Short story no. 1 from Queers Who Don’t Quit, A Government-Sanctioned Marriage by Cameron Van Sant: In space, an arranged marriage connects two queer men… Out now! https://queer-pack.com/books/queers-who-dont-quit-2020

Queers Who Don’t Quit

Check out our upcoming release, Queers Who Don’t Quit, now available for preorder! Coming July 15th 2020.

Blurb for Queers Who Don’t Quit

There are times we all just need to forge onwards--or upwards. We can find that strength within ourselves, or people around us help. Sometimes, it’s both. In Queers Who Don’t Quit, queers across the spectrum hurdle the big, the small, and the unfathomable. A cowboy and his boyfriend flee across the Martian desert with their stolen robot. Back on Earth, two aromantics bond over their shared love of pop culture. A trans woman finds herself between a rock and a hard place when someone from her past threatens to destroy her future. Space Boy remembers what it's like to be in love with another boy, and two women have more in common than they think as they fall in love while cosplaying their favourite TV show. Queer men frolic at a gay beach balanced on sands of time. A bisexual, a widow, and a murderer walk into a bar--just wait for it, there's a punchline. An enby down on their luck gets an offer from a goddess too good to refuse. In 1930s London, split ends are queerly healed. A queer college student seeks to rekindle a dying friendship during a trip to Paris. A trans teacher takes a stand against bigotry and finds love in the process. Love is found amongst giddiness, hard edges, and a darkly passionate theater. An ace vows to finally come out to her sister, and back in space, an arranged marriage connects two queer men. A woman discovers opening a queer bookshop isn’t all rainbows and sunshine. Adrift with her infantry company in one war, a trans warrior must face the ghosts of another. And on their first day back at work, someone can be the person we wish we'd met as a kid. Join us in these queer stories of hope, resilience, and perseverance. 

JUST LET ME BE.

You shouldn’t be treating nb people like the secret sexy 3rd gender. Nb people don’t look like a mash of male and female, they’re not sexy androgynous twinks

We Are Intersex: Mother & Daughter

Intersex people are not all sterile, infertile or whatever you would like to call it. The point of this video is to show you the misconceptions of intersex people and that all of our bodily functions don’t work or are inactive. In the case of my mom (and other intersex mothers/fathers out there) If we weren’t always operated on (STOP IGM) we could have ways to make our intersex bodies function but a lot of the times our ovaries/testis are labeled (cancerous, nonfunctional, sterile, deformed, etc) which aren’t always right and true. The surgeries are inhumane and often times cause the child depression, anxiety, no sexual feelings, confusion and trauma cause the surgeries or surgery in general is irreversible and the victim is left scarred for the rest of their life.

Me and my mom were unaware of our intersex condition until almost a year for me and a year for my mom. My mother found out when she was going to get a hysterectomy and through MRIs, X-Rays and the whole pre surgery test found testis and ovaries (gonads), as well as XY and XX chrosomes (me and my moms genes are unknown as of right now, an update will be coming soon, and genitals we aren’t ready to get into yet) Anyways, the doctor said the surgery was minor and will only be a small incision, to my mom catching the doctor explain to other doctors she was going to cut her all the way open and take away everything. The doctor even claimed it was cancerous and allowed my mom to grow a tumor instead of giving her hormone pills, so she could lead to surgery. My mom is an adult without even being asked consent for this surgery, so imagine children that really don’t have a choice and zero consent.

Now me on the other hand, I had a hormone imbalance just like my mom constantly feeling sick and moody, with the same (Prolactin diagnosis) my mom got by the same doctor, and switched doctors that told me my hormones are leveled again but I explained to him I did not get a sign of my period until 18 and haven’t had it in a year but was dismissed. So my mom reached out to a specialist for me to then discover I was also intersex with XY/XX chromosomes and Ovaries and Testis. (I also experienced some early signs since young that made me lean to believing I was intersex)

Now testis are both internal/external for men. I will explain. Testis are inside of a mans balls, so that does make them internal as we cannot see testis, but external because balls do hang outside of the mans body. Testis is what holds sperm. Now ovaries are internal and they hold the eggs. So me and my mom have testis and ovaries, our ovaries sit perfectly within our female/male reproductive system (at least we were told, I do not know the biology/science behind this sorry) allowing/enabling us to have periods (every few months to a year) Does our testis have sperm? That is something we do not know. But my moms ovaries had eggs to have  three children (including me) and Intersex is hereditary so it passed along to me, and I also may be able to have children (hopefully) and pass my intersex gene down to my child.

Intersex people in the past had more penis/vulvas and now it isn’t as common, but it still occurs in some intersex people, but it is a misconception that, that is what every intersex person has, (hey maybe the future we will) but anyway.   I hope this made you all understand our bodies better (Yes it was hard and difficult for my mom  to have children, took her 2 years for one child at the age of 18 and she had to see a specialist) but it is possible, we aren’t the only ones. Intersexual people are apart of other things. Animals, nature (plants) and other things. We are special, we are rare but we are certainly beautiful.

Amazing TED talk on the way the strict gender binary harms us, by XY intersex woman Emily Quinn

Here’s an extract of her talk:

“I have a vagina. Just thought you should know. Just thought you should know. I look like a woman. I’m dressed like one, I guess. The thing is, I also have balls….I’m not male or female. I’m intersex.

“Most people assume that you’re biologically either a man or a woman, but it’s actually a lot more complex than that. There are so many ways somebody could be intersex. 

In my case, it means I was born with XY chromosomes, which you probably know as male chromosomes. And I was born with a vagina and balls inside my body. I don’t respond to testosterone, so during puberty, I grew breasts… I don’t actually have a uterus – I was born without one, so I don’t menstruate, I can’t have biological children…

“We put people in boxes based on their genitalia. Before a baby’s even born, we ask whether it’s a boy or a girl, as if it actually matters; as if you’re going to be less excited about having a baby if it doesn’t have the genitals you wanted; as if what’s between somebody’s legs tells you anything about that person. 

Are they kind, generous, funny? Smart? Who do they want to be when they grow up? Genitals don’t actually tell you anything. Yet, we define ourselves by them. In this society, we love putting people into boxes and labeling each other…

“But there’s one really big problem: biological sex is not black or white. It’s on a spectrum. Besides your genitalia, you also have your chromosomes, your gonads, like ovaries or testicles. You have your internal sex organs, your hormone production, your hormone response and your secondary sex characteristics, like breast development, body hair, etc. 

Those seven areas of biological sex all have so much variation, yet we only get two options: male or female. Which is kind of absurd to me, because I can’t think of a single other human trait that there’s only two options for: skin color, hair, height, eyes…”

Listen to whole talk here. Believe me, it is worth your time!

Clearly rotisserie chicken is the creme de la creme of cuisine. x 

me: dress how you want!! gender is fake!!! nothing matters!!!!!!

trans person: i like gender tho

me: hell yeah i respect that!!!! i apologize and don’t mean to dismiss your identity with my optimistic nihilism!!!!!!!

Queer Anthology Submission Call 2019! We’re looking for any stories that fit into the theme Queers Who Don’t Quit. Check out our submission call!

Got a story of a poly triad plotting the heist that’s finally gonna go right? Your ace character mooning over the trans guy at school and always getting caught with a dopey smile? Have a short tale about an enby journalist who’s just been fired for their story that’s shaken up the political world and needs a pick me up from their found family? Have a genderfluid vigilante who just can’t stop themself from getting back to the streets even when injured, much to the chagrin of their queerplatonic partner who just wants them home with their rainbow family?

Hit us with it.

18 Positive Queer News Stories of 2018

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2018 was a year full of triumphs and tribulations, and we’re sharing 18 of the nicest things that happened for the queer community this year. (Read Part I & Part II)

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Mmmmmmmm that satisfying feeling when you get to add a line you cut back into your WIP.

Open Call for Queer Book Submissions! We’re looking for stories across the LGBTQIAP+ spectrum usually not given a platform. Check out our call!

Do you have a tale about an ace guy trying to survive college and the story of how he finds love—whatever shape that love may take? Maybe you have a story about a trans witch off to save her enby queer-platonic partner who’s been kidnapped by a dragon, and she just knows they’ll be talking the dragon’s ear off? Got a story brewing with a poly triad planning the heist of their lives, the one that’s gonna go right this time?

Perhaps you have a story of how two trans people met and fell in love and found themselves adopting their first child? A pansexual journalist is covering a story on location and they blow a story wide open, their found family helping at every twist and turn? An aro kickboxer teams up with a genderfluid vigilante to take on crime in the streets?

Hit us with it.

Queer Pack’s Back!

Guess who’s back? Queer Pack’s back! And we have so many plans to come—not only that, we’re so excited to share them with you! Check out our new blog post here, outlining what’s to come, including two new submission calls for new queer books.

https://queer-pack.com/…/03/10/queer-pack-back-new-queer-bo…

While you’re there, check out our shiny new website and new bits and pieces!

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