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the-bi-library · 9 months

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Happy Disability Pride Month!

Here are some books with disabled bi MCs to celebrate the occasion 💖

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💕 The Faithless by C.L. Clark 💕 Icebreaker by A.L. Graziadei 💕 The Immeasurable Depth of You by Maria Ingrande Mora 💕 The Luis Ortega Survival Club by Sonora Reyes 💕 Forever Is Now by Mariama J. Lockington 💕 Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute by Talia Hibbert 💕 Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel by Jessica Walton 💕 The Disasters by M.K. England 💕 The Secret Summer Promise by Keah Brown 💕 Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao 💕 Scoring a Spouse by Liz Lincoln 💕 Other bound by Corinne Duyvis 💕 Play It Again by Aidan Wayne 💕 Dark Pines by Will Dean 💕 Izzy at the End of the World by K.A. Reynolds 💕 In The Ring by Sierra Isley 💕 Dearly Departed by Heather Novak 💕 Monstersona by Chloe Spencer

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thereadingchallengechallenge · 4 months

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🔎 YA Under the Radar 7 🔍

I have been working on this list in the series all year 😂 it just took me that long to read a decent amount of underrated YA - but I got there in the end and I'm pretty happy with the recs on this list 🥰

there are rainbow flags next to LGBT+ rep, wheelchair symbols next to disability rep and koalas next to Australia YA simply because there's a lot of that on this particular list

so take a gander and maybe consider picking up a title or two (or ten) in 2024 to support lesser-known authors and books 😊

Take Me With You When You Go by David Levithan & Jennifer Niven 🏳️‍🌈

Margo Zimmerman Gets the Girl by Brianna R Shrum & Sara Waxelbaum 🏳️‍🌈♿️

Imogen, Obviously by Becky Albertalli 🏳️‍🌈

To Break a Covenant by Alison Ames 🏳️‍🌈

It Looks Like Us by Alison Ames 🏳️‍🌈

Scout’s Honor by Lily Anderson 🏳️‍🌈

Grace Notes by Karen Comer 🐨

The Sky Blues by Robbie Couch 🏳️‍🌈

Blood Moon by Lucy Cuthew

After Dark With Roxie Clark by Brooke Lauren Davis

Blind Spot by Robyn Dennison 🐨

Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan 🏳️‍🌈

The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst

Where You See Yourself by Claire Forrest ♿️

What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat

All Eyes On Us by Kit Frick 🏳️‍🌈

When We Were Magic by Sarah Gailey 🏳️‍🌈

The Lightness of Hands by Jeff Garvin ♿️

Then Everything Happens at Once by M-E Girard 🏳️‍🌈♿️

The Buried by Melissa Grey 🏳️‍🌈

Because of You by Pip Harry 🐨

The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl 🏳️‍🌈

Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson

Jay’s Gay Agenda by Jason June 🏳️‍🌈

Out of the Blue by Jason June 🏳️‍🌈

Riley Weaver Needs a Date to the Gaybutante Ball by Jason June 🏳️‍🌈

Girls Like Girls by Hayley Kiyoko 🏳️‍🌈

The Honeys by Ryan La Sala 🏳️‍🌈

Luck of the Titanic by Stacey Lee

It Will End Like This by Kyra Leigh

Extasia by Claire Legrand

Ryan and Avery by David Levithan 🏳️‍🌈

Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier 🏳️‍🌈

The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo 🏳️‍🌈

We Didn’t Think It Through by Gary Lonesborough 🐨

Sadie Starr’s Guide to Starting Over by Miranda Luby 🐨

None Shall Sleep series by Ellie Marney 🐨

The Girls Are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh ♿️

Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall

These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall 🏳️‍🌈

The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall 🏳️‍🌈

Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore

Mask of Shadows duology by Linsey Miller 🏳️‍🌈

Sugar by Carly Nugent ♿️🐨

All Our Hidden Gifts trilogy by Caroline O’Donoghue 🏳️‍🌈

The Life and (Medieval) Times of Kit Sweetly by Jamie Pacton

Lucky Girl by Jamie Pacton

The Vermilion Emporium by Jamie Pacton

Accidental by Alex Richards

Some Kind of Animal by Mar Romasco-Moore

Luminous by Mara Rutherford

The Poison Season by Mara Rutherford

The Midnight Lie duology by Marie Rutkoski 🏳️‍🌈

Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore 🏳️‍🌈

When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw 🏳️‍🌈

If You Still Recognise Me by Cynthia So 🏳️‍🌈

Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon ♿️

Breathe and Count Back From Ten by Natalia Sylvester ♿️

Cold by Mariko Tamaki 🏳️‍🌈

Outrun the Wind by Elizabeth Tammi 🏳️‍🌈

The Weight of a Soul by Elizabeth Tammi

Wild and Crooked by Leah Thomas ♿️

Violet Ghosts by Leah Thomas 🏳️‍🌈

The Comedienne’s Guide to Pride by Hayli Thomson 🏳️‍🌈🐨

The Siren, the Song and the Spy by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Sweet and Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley 🏳️‍🌈

Sofi and the Bone Song by Adrienne Tooley 🏳️‍🌈

Nothing Sung and Nothing Spoken by Nita Tyndall 🏳️‍🌈♿️

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White 🏳️‍🌈

This Is the Way the World Ends by Jen Wilde 🏳️‍🌈♿️🐨

Where You Left Us by Rhiannon Wilde 🏳️‍🌈🐨

Two Can Play That Game by Leanne Yong🐨

Katzenjammer by Francesca Zappia

#booklr #book recs #bookblr #book recommendations #ya books #ya novels #ya fiction #trcc original #lgbt books #disabled books #loveozya

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whilereadingandwalking · 9 months

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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Culture by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (she/they) is an excellent essay collection about the goals and realities of collective care, access as radical solidarity and love, medical dismissal, and much more. Piepzna-Samarasinha imagines the possibilities of solidarity and reimagining care as a web of support rather than as care as cure.

As a chronically ill reader, Piepzna-Samarasinha's essays are illuminating and inspiring, and able-bodied people will benefit from considering disabled models of care and access, both because we all benefit from increased access, and because almost all of us will be temporarily or permanently disabled or ill at some point in our lives. Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about questioning the deficiency model of disability and disrupting the binary between healed and failed. She writes about the possibility of "doulas" who help welcome newly disabled people into the community and help them learn about a world they won't recognize or know enough about.

She talks openly about her experience as a survivor of assault and abuse and how in both that and in abuse, we need to consider that instead of picturing a future where we are cured, we have to picture futures where we are "unhealed" but thriving and successful. I really enjoyed her pieces on the expectations, struggle, suicidality, and emotional labor of femmes and how she hopes it can change. Overall, this is an excellent collection about being disabled, about the webs of care we can imagine and create, and about seeing the disabled community as one of possibility and creativity rather than condemnation or isolation.

Content warnings for police brutality, ableism, suicide/suicidal ideation, grief, abuse, sexual assault, trauma, medical dismissal.

#care work #leah lakshmi piepzna-samarasinha #disabled books #disability justice #health feminism #bias in medicine #my book reviews

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traeumenvonbuechern · 1 year

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Could you plan the senior Fall Formal with your (hot) nemesis? Well, Whit has to. Frenemies Whit and Zay have been at odds for years (ever since he broke up with her freshman year in, like, the most embarrassing way imaginable), but when they're forced to organize their high school's Fall Formal together, everything changes. Has their friction been a big misunderstanding all along? Blisteringly funny and profoundly well-observed, The Fall of Whit Rivera is a snug and cozy autumn romcom that also touches on weighty issues like PCOS, grief, Dis/ability, sexuality, and class. Funny, honest, insightful, romantic, and poignant, it is Classic Crystal Maldonado—and it will have readers absolutely swooning. This is the book equivalent of a hot mug of cinnamon tea, a soft red scarf, and a fresh apple-cider muffin. Pumpkin spice lattes for everybody!

#i can't wait to read this book #and it has pcos rep!!!#the fall of whit rivera #crystal maldonado #bookblr #booklr #ya books #young adult books #ya romance #diverse books #queer books #latine books #fat books #disabled books

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kodiescove · 17 days

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Okay yall

No poll this time cause I don't really have ideas, I'm looking to you for ideas.

How would you like me to structure my Representation Masterpost?

The only two ideas I have is:

Make a list of all the identities I come across in books, and list the books under the identities

Or

List each author, then their books and the rep in their books.

Idea 1 let's people find books based on rep.

Idea 2 is more organized/cohesive/how I'd personally organize my books.

I'm sure there's tons of ways people could come up with to organize this!

I want to know what the community wants.

#lgbt representation #trans representation #representation #representation masterpost #lgbt books #disabled books #mentally ill books #poc books #books #booklr #bookblr #book tumblr #queer books #ideas

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prawnlegs · 2 months

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today I learned about "thumb book holders" in my search for ways to read giant fantasy paperbacks without injuring myself, and then I realized I could make one out of the 20-year-old polymer clay that I had lying around... so I did. and god DAMN it's more effective than I ever expected, so I thought everyone should know about them. You can get really cheap mass-produced ones but this was fun to make and I'll probably make more ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

#crafts #thumb book holder #i made it to look like marbled redware #accessibility #disability #assistive technology

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vampirescience · 1 month

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hi! do you like supporting queer-owned/disabled-owned small businesses? do you like buying affordable stuff? awesome!

i have recently launched lavender lit, a used bookstore focused on uplifting the voices, stories, and experiences of marginalized folks of all kinds, with a specialty in queer books.

since so many of my formative experiences took place here on tumblr dot com, i decided to build in a special discount for tumblr users — you can enter the code tumblr10 at checkout for 10% off your first order on our online store! we’ve got a great selection of books, stickers, and zines to browse.

thank you so much for checking us out, spreading the word, and helping me get my dream business off the ground!

#queer books #queer owned business #disabled owned business #queer community #bookblr #bookstore

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audhdnight · 2 months

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Petition to add more disabled magical creatures in fantasy

Like picture a mermaid. When they have to be on land their tail turns to legs, but because their body is used to lower gravity their joints tire easily and are chronically in pain.

Also depending on how deep in the ocean they live, it’s likely they have circulation problems because their body is used to the water pressure holding everything where it needs to be and now their blood is always fucking pooling in their legs and they have to wear compression socks everywhere.

Wheelchair user mermaids. Partially/fully blind mermaids because who needs to see when there’s no light at the bottom of the ocean?

Mermaids with sensory issues who have to wear headphones all the time because sound is so much louder up here on land and they are constantly overstimulated. And also the sun is simply Too Bright™.

Mermaids who have POTS because in the water postural changes make no difference and their bodies don’t know how to stabilize with so much gravity.

I’m really fixated on the mermaids rn but PLEASE feel more than welcome to add more!!!! I wanna hear about disabled dragons

#fantasy #high fantasy #disability #mermaids #disability representation #books and reading #fantasy books #dragons #potsie #chronic pain #chronic fatigue #wheelchair users

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kingsbridgelibraryteens · 8 months

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“Reading is for everyone.”

Here is one of the coolest things I've found stuck in a library book recently! It's a bookmark from the Library of Congress that's in print and also incorporates a message in braille. It's advertising the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled.

Learn more at the NLS website:

ETA: Thanks for all the love for this post!!! Here's a reblogged version which includes some great comments and a very helpful ID!!!

#bookmarks #reading is for everyone #braille #Library of Congress #NLS #Blind and Print Disabled #talking books

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kikithebooknerd · 1 year

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Heyhey, #BookNerds!

I recently read The Stonewall Reader and We Can Do Better Than This and was wondering if anyone had any similar recommendations centred on Disabled history, movements and progress?

Bit specific but I thought if anyone can help it'd be you lovely bookish lot! 💜

#bookish #booknerds #disabled books

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enbeemagical · 10 months

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everyone's talking about the queerness in Nimona, but can I remind you that Ballister Boldheart/Blackheart is also disabled and built himself a super cool mechanical arm

#nimona #nd stevenson #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #disabled characters #disability #AND #and and and #in the book losing his arm is w h y he's a villain #because ''the institution had no use for a one-armed hero''#haven't seen anyone else talking about this so

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annasellheim · 1 month

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Next part- MRI shenanigans

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andthebeanstalk · 9 months

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Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!