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Sex and Body Positive Trans and Nonbinary Non-Fiction Books
Buy books from trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming authors! Here's a list of some non-fiction that I've really enjoyed. This is NOT extensive, it is just scratching the surface of what's out there.
Be sure to follow me for updates on my own books and a regular dose of non-binary gender euphoria! [18+ Only, I'm a sex blogger and pleasure informed queer sexuality writer.]
NOTE: All links are to Amazon CA. Most of these are available at other retailers though, so, if it looks interesting please be sure to look it up at your preferred place to buy books!
Ashley, Florence. Gender/Fucking: The Pleasures and Politics of Living in a Gendered Body. CLASH Books, 2024.
Coyote, Ivan. Rebent Sinner. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022.
Dale, Laura Kate, Ed. Gender Euphoria: Stories of Joy from Trans, Non-Binary and Intersex Writers. Unbound, 2022.
Grimm, Bruce Owens, Miguel M. Morales and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini, editors. Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021.
Kobabe, Maia. Gender Queer: A Memoir. Oni Press, 2019.
Lore, Nillin. How Do I Sexy? A Guide for Trans and Nonbinary Queers. Thornapple Press, 2024.
Lorenz, Theo. The Trans Self-Care Workbook: A Coloring Book and Journal for Trans and Non-Binary People. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020.
Mx. Sly. Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023.
Oaks-Monger, Tash. All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy. Jessica Kinglsey Publishers, 2023.
Raines, Jamie. The T in LGBT: Everything You Need to Know About Being Trans. Vermilion, 2024.
Silver, Orlando. I Write the Body: Queer & Trans Kink, Desire, and Defiance. Kith Books & silvertongue PUBLISHING, 2023.
Sparks, Kelvin. Trans Sex: A Guide for Adults. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2022.
Tobia, Jacob. Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2019.
Vaid-Menon, Alok. Beyond the Gender Binary. Pocket CHANGE Collective, 2020.
Violet, Mia. Yes, You Are Trans Enough: My Transition from Self-Loathing to Self-Love. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2019.
#trans#transgender#non binary#nonbinary#queer#lgbtq#gender nonconforming#genderqueer#genderfluid#lgbtq books#trans books#trans author#nonbinary writer#nonbinary author#nonbinary books#queer books#sex positive#body positive
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⚠️PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️
The Queer Liberation Library is, as the name suggests, a digital library centered around queer literature. They offer library cards to anyone in any place, all you need in order to sign up is an email address. Then you can access their catalog online or through apps like Libby.
When I signed up I received an email that said there’s sometimes a waitlist, but I should have my card within a week or else someone would get back to me within that timeframe to explain if I had to wait longer. I ended up getting my card after only a couple of days.
Their website is very accessible and easy to use. My favorite features are the button at the bottom of the screen which lets you switch between light and dark mode, and the Quick Exit banner along the top of the page that doesn’t go away regardless of where you navigate on the site.
This is such an incredible resource and I can’t believe I didn’t know about it until very recently. I want every queer person to know about it! They have accounts on most of the major social media sites (such as tiktok, Instagram, even here on tumblr at @queerliblib). There’s also a place on their website where you can suggest books they should add to their catalog.
After you get your card, I’d suggest the first book you read to be Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon. It is a short but powerful little book that I think is an incredibly concise analysis of societal gender-based discrimination, and a great place to start a lot of really important discussions. I listened to the audiobook this morning (it was only an hour long, which is a win for my trash attention span) and I couldn’t believe how good it was for so little page time.
I will absolutely be reading the rest of the Pocket Change Collective (the series which Beyond the Gender Binary is part of) and I can’t wait to see what I’ll learn from them.
#I can’t even describe how much I love this book#queer liberation#queer lit#queer resources#beyond the gender binary#social studies#queer books#nonfiction books#nonbinary author#lgbtq community#lgbtqia#gender discourse#gender equality#gender expression#gender exploration
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My next book is out today!
Second Chances in New Port Stephen is...the book I think I'm the proudest of so far. If you are queer or gay or trans or questioning or an elder millennial or Floridian or a single dad or a washed up comedian or a fan of manatees--this one's for you.
You can order it here.
#my books#second chances in new port stephen#queer books#trans books#gay books#booklr#book reading#books#nonbinary author
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If you're not reading Boyfriend Material by Alexis Hall, you should be. I'm a 100 pages in and in absolute splits. Top-tier British queer comedy. 💀💀
(I'm also convinced the character the protag is trying to hook up with is autistic as hell.)
“No. God no. My mother’s French.”
“Ah. Lucien, then.” He said it perfectly, too, with the half-swallowed softness of the final syllable, smiling at me—the first full smile I’d seen from him, and shocking in its sweetness. “Vraiment? Vous parlez français?”
There’s really no excuse for what happened next. I think maybe I just wanted him to keep smiling at me. Because for some reason I said, “Oui oui. Un peu.”
And then, to my horror, he rattled off God knew what.
Leaving me to scrape the bottom of the barrel of my GCSE French, for which I’d received a D. “Um…um… Je voudrais aller au cinema avec mes amis? Ou est la salle de bain?”
Utterly perplexed, he pointed. So I was obliged to go the bathroom.
When I slunk back, he immediately confronted me with “You don’t speak French at all, do you?”
“No.” I hung my head. “I mean, my mother used both when I was growing up, but I still turned out stubbornly monolingual.”
“Then why didn’t you just say that?”
“I…don’t know. I guess I assumed you didn’t speak French either?”
“Why on earth would I imply I could speak French, when I couldn’t?”
I stuffed a teetering forkful of pie into my mouth. “You’re right. That would be a deranged thing to do.”
#increasingly feral capslocking screaming meta-essaying liveblog in the notes#with random excerpts of the funniest shit but i really did try not to spoil the important stuff#tbh i don't think anything really can forewarn you of this reading experience#i think it qualifies as 'real literature' whatever that's supposed to be‚ because of how much it interrogates and subverts#lgtbtqia#mlm romance#queer lit#british comedy#book recommendations#book reccs#boyfriend material#alexis hall#nonbinary author#knee of huss
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I haven't been writing new stuff lately, probably because my brain is still recovering from 2023. In the meantime, I made this dress from scratch. I drafted the pattern, pieced together the fabric and made this. It's my first collared shirt pattern so I'm very very excited about how nice it turned out.
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Rating: Explicit
Fandom: Merlin (TV)
Pairing: Merlin/Arthur Pendragon
Summary: When you realize your feelings for your soulmate, their name is naturally burned into your wrist. Arthur is in love with Guinevere, so when Arthur's name burns into Merlin's wrist, Merlin decides to hide it from Arthur so as not to confuse his lovelife.
Tips welcome 💖
#fanfiction#gay#merlin#merthur#romance#fiction#flash fiction#smut#fluff#soulmates#au#arthur pendragon#nonbinary author#nonbinary artist#nonbinary writer#bipoc author#bipoc creatives#bipoc artist#bipoc writers#trans author#trans artist#trans writers#queer romance#queer pride#queer author#queer artist#queer writers#short story
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Meet Aether Beyond the Binary Contributors Em Rowntree and Kelas Lloyd
Today, we spotlight two more of the creators contributing to our current crowdfunding project Aether Beyond the Binary(a collection of 17 aetherpunk settings starring characters outside the gender binary): Em Rowntree and Kelas Lloyd!
Cadillac’s Bus by Em Rowntree
About Em: Em Rowntree’s first foray into the world of writing was with a story called The Magic Land that featured a unicorn and a flying carpet the size of a country, and they’ve been chasing that high ever since. They’ve been sharing their writing online for almost nine years, and have had poems and short stories published in anthologies. They live in the UK.
Links: Twitter
This is Em’s second contribution to a Duck Prints Press anthology; they also wrote a story for Add Magic to Taste.
Title: Cadillac’s Bus
Tags: pending
Excerpt:
From their vantage point, the kid couldn’t see the rally racer inside. Couldn’t see the black gloves with one white star of pure aetherlight painted on each fingertip. Couldn’t see the curled mess of long grey hair. Couldn’t see the steely, hungry, fiercely joyful look on their face as their vehicle plunged on through the moorland. But the kid could picture it all, down to the last detail.
They put their hands in the air.
“CADILLAC JONES!” they yelled, loud enough for the cow to hear them a few hundred yards away and lift its head – but nowhere near loud enough for Cadillac Jones themself to know their name was being screamed as they disappeared out of sight, away down the track. “CADILLAC JONES FOREVER! YES! THE BEST –” The kid turned to left and right as though looking for someone to tell, but there was no one beside them. “THE BEST! CADILLAC JONES FOREVER! YES!”
They stood, overwhelmed, keeping the moment alive as long as they could. A few minutes after the rally racer had turned the next corner and gone out of sight, another vehicle came hurtling round the bend after them. The kid lifted their arms again – and this time turned their open hands into raised middle fingers.
“YOU SUCK!” they screamed in delight, a smile of joy splitting their face.
True by Kelas Lloyd
About Kelas: Kelas is a disabled, trans, bi author and artist currently (unfortunately) living in Texas. They graduated from the University of Central Florida with an English degree and love cats, tea, and all things speculative fiction. A lot of their writing features magic or disability or both, and they’re often found in Star Trek, Mass Effect, Babylon 5, and Untamed spaces. You can also find them in a lot of bead and resin spaces, because they love making sparkly jewelry of all sorts.
Previously published pieces include an article on disability in The Last Of Us, short stories in two publications by Shacklebound Books, a pair of poems about being trans, an essay on disabled life, and a whole bunch of pieces about San Diego Comic-con. They’re single, an Ernie looking for their Bert, but they have a found family that stretches around the globe and some of their birth family accepts them for who they are.
You can find out more about them at kelaslloyd.com
Links: Personal Website | Archive of Our Own | Twitter
This is Kelas’s first time writing with Duck Prints Press.
Title: True
Tags: character study, foster family, found family, friends, genderfluid, magic use, non-binary, present tense, self-esteem issues, teenager, third person limited pov, transphobia (mentions of)
Excerpt:
“Oh,” Eva says, trying to recover. “Yeah, okay. So what’s the procedure? Are you gathering up all the ducklings and then herding us over?”
Paul looks at them as if they can see through the joking tone Eva’s adopted. “You’ve got a map in your booklet. I’m here, so I introduced myself, but there’s a schedule in there too. Everyone here is old enough to herd themselves; I’m here for support.”
“So you catch us in the trust-fall exercises,” Eva says, opening up the booklet to find the map and schedule.
“No, I make sure to drop everyone during those.”
Eva’s gaze snaps up to catch Paul’s grin just before it turns into a faint smile.
“You’re here because you’re struggling with aether,” Paul continues. “Most of the time a teen is struggling, it’s because they don’t know themselves well enough yet to let it flow through them the way as it’s supposed to. That’s what I help with.”
Make sure you visit our Kickstarter campaign page to learn about the collection, take a peek at the merchandise, read more excerpts, and more!
#aetherpunk#duck prints press#aether beyond the binary#nonbinary#nonbinary characters#nonbinary author#nonbinary anthology
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HEY FRIENDS DO YOU LIKE QUEER BOOKS
We're officially setting up a Tumblr account (for cough cough other-social-media-having-problems-reasons) though you'll have seen Meredith around at @king-of-katz ♥
We're indie authors that rely heavily on word-of-mouth to get our stories out there, so reblogs and shares are always super helpful.
Check out our full list of books on our site! Here's a few:
The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz
Genre: Retrofuture sci-fi, romance, asexual homoromantic F/F
A mechanic with a bad case of wanderlust meets a homebound robot stuck in the past. In accepting the things they cannot change and finding the courage to change the ones they can, both of them need to understand what it means to ‘move on’. Tea, AI, and kindness. Soft and warm.
Empty Vessels by Meredith Katz
Genre: Paranormal, urban fantasy, romance, M/M/M, polyamorous
A psychic young man knows he has to overcome his anxieties to protect the local monsters from something terrifying lurking in the night. Along the way, he finds romance in unlikely places, between the ghost that keeps him company and the deer-antlered man running the mysterious antique shop. Monster kissing, flirty horned boys, mindscapes, and creepy dolls.
Smoke Signals by Meredith Katz
Genre: Urban fantasy, romance, M/M, dragon, billionaire
A harried CSR for a games distributor gets put in charge of the video game collection of a grumpy and self-centered billionaire who is a literal dragon. At least the dragon is cute… in an apex predator sort of way. Includes soft cats, cooking shows, and knitting! Fun and upbeat.
All books available here. Hopefully you'll find your next read! xoxo
#queer books#lgbtq books#books on tumblr#indie books#indie author#nonbinary author#fantasy fiction#romance fiction#queer fiction
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EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS BOOK BC ITS FUCKING AMAZING AND COMFORTUNG AND I LOVE IT WITH MY HEART AND SOUL AND ITS ABOUT A NONBINARY PERSON AND A MICHAEL(Osemanverse) CODED GUY
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#Free book#free kindle books#lgbtq writer#queer scifi#indie author#nonbinary author#queer books#actually neurodiverse#indie books#indie writer#murder mysteries#still new to marketing my own stuff#so be kind :3
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Chapter 2: Path of Least Resistance
After rage quitting Unified Theory Press, Evan has some trouble walking and, you know, figuring out what to do with his life.
Read the first chapter of You're the Most free or join the Slow Burn tier on Patreon or Ream. Excerpt below!
After leaving Unified Theory Press for the last time, Evan Brooks made it all the way to Sandy Boulevard before his brain finally rejoined his body. He stood, blinking up at the marquee to the Hollywood Theater, lightheaded enough to wonder if he was actually awake right now or if he'd just imagined it all.
When someone brushed past him, surrounded by a stink-cloud of skunk weed, he yelped.
"Arrr, you're blocking the crossroads, matey," said a dirty man in a frayed, stained red coat. There was a green wooden parrot somehow fixed to his shoulder, and he was wearing an eye patch, bandana, and high black combat boots. Yup. Jury was still out on whether he was hallucinating.
A woman in a fleece jacket and prescription sunglasses weaved around him, sighing dramatically. It was then that he realized this was all real, and he was having his personal crisis in one of the most inconvenient places possible to everyone around him. That point was underscored by a blaring horn to his left. Someone with a long black beard and a Blazers cap behind the wheel of a vintage BMW sneered at him.
"Okay, okay, fuck, I'm going," Evan said out loud.
"Go back to Palm Springs, cocksucker," the guy shouted out his open window.
"Don't knock it 'til you've tried it," Evan shouted back before he could reconsider, because apparently he was in self-destruct mode but also fuck that guy. Fortunately for him, the guy had already zipped around the corner before the words were out of his mouth.
Evan felt the inexorable laughter coming to a boil in his stomach. Fortunately, he made it all the way to the other side of the street before it came out of him in a continuous stream of cackles. The hysteria really took hold, as he stumbled over to the bench facing the doors of the theater.
He leaned his elbows on his knees and buried his face in his hands as he let the madness truly take over. Because he didn't have anything else to do for the rest of the day, or the foreseeable future.
He seriously just did that. He just quit his job. No two weeks notice, no formal letter of resignation—just pure spite and impulsiveness.
#M/NB#M.L. Nolan#serialized romance#queer romance#LGBTQ romance#Andie Silvana#Evan Brooks#Andie/Evan#Queer romance on Patreon#Nonbinary Author#Nonbinary MC
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HEY EVERYONE! Guess what!?
I just signed a contract to write my 2nd book!
"Carry On: Unpacking Your Internalized Transphobic and Queerphobic Baggage" is coming in 2025 🥰
#queer#transgender#trans#non binary#nonbinary author#nonbinary writer#queer books#queer writers#queer author#lgbtq books#lgbtqia community#queer community#gender nonconforming#trans community
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We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds is a vivid, beautiful novel, put together perfectly, that combines YA coming-of-age story with simmering southern gothic mystery. Young pansexual Avery sticks out like a sore thumb as one of the only Black girls at the "good school" in Bardell, Georgia. She doesn't know why her family is even here—years after her mom fled the town for good, they're back to see her dying grandmother, but the two women do nothing but fight. But once she's adopted by Simone and Jade, and begins to sow small seeds of connection with Mama Letty, Avery starts to carve out something like a comfort with Bardell. Unfortunately, getting to know Bardell will mean getting to know its secrets.
Hammonds brings into rich, crystalline tension the way that small towns hold onto their secrets, with combinations of open rumor and rigid silences. Their characters are vivid and complex people who you can see as you read, and it enhances the heartbreaks, the tears, and the hugs that come in these pages. From the clumsy web of being queer and Black to the violence of generational trauma and how it's passed down, this book is layer upon layer of story, and yet it's easy to read—in fact, it's near-impossible to put down, and I gulped it down like a frosty iced tea on a hot humid summer day, all in one long, savoring chug. It's a powerful book about both family and friendship, about facing a difficult past with eyes wide open and also about finding new pocket-spaces where you feel accepted and at home.
It gets one of my dearest compliments to a book, because it's rare and usually speaks to the writer's talent: it made me want to write. It sparked that creative rush, and made me want to tell another story. To cap it all off, I loved the pansexual representation, and the book was part of my list of nonbinary/gender non-conforming authors to read this Pride Month.
Content warnings for racism, police brutality, violence, terminal illness, sexual harassment, emotional abuse, homophobia, outing.
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it's the #TransRightsReadathon!! from march 20-27, you are encouraged to read and share trans books and donate to Trans Health Legal Fund!!
you know me!! i'm nicole mello, i'm a trans author, and i have a bunch of books with trans characters!! 🏳️⚧️ ❤️🔥 ✨
i'm trying to read one book this week, and also raise a little bit for trans people!! if you're looking for a book to read for the Trans Rights Readathon, mine are all right here for you!!
and if you want to learn more about the Trans Rights Readathon, you can learn more about it (and how to participate!) right here on twitter!!!
#trans rights readathon#trans rights#readathon#trans#trans non binary#trans nonbinary#queer#queer author#trans author#non binary author#nonbinary author#trans character#trans nonbinary character#nonbinary character#nonbinary#nicole mello#trans health legal fund
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For anyone who was interested in a more detailed view of that shirt dress (or the links to how I drafted it which are in the description on YouTube), it was in today's video. Did you know I post every Tuesday? I do. And sometimes I read books out loud on my channel. There's also a few other sewn projects in this update, so check it out if that's your jam.
Stick around to the end where I remind you of the important things in life.
#lgbtq quthor#sewist#sewing#diy vlog#sewing clothes#queer sewing#gender affirming sewing#nonbinary author#indie author#Youtube
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A Funny Poem
Free. Tips welcome 💖
#funny#funny poems#poems and poetry#original poem#poems on tumblr#poets on tumblr#poem#comedy#poc artist#poc author#nonbinary author#nonbinary artist#trans author#trans artist
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