Queer recommendations for stuff
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Looking for queer culture, history and space can be difficult. I wanted a digital space to share community 'Recs' aka recommendations for these.
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It's going to start out with books, but it'd open to anything, movies, tv shows, musicians. hangout spots, sapphic events, as long as its giving queer joy
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Use the contact section at the bottom of the page to submit your recommendations to the space, a way of linking our queer cells to one another, sharing knowledge and community
Queer non-fiction
❤️🔥 Otherwise: Imagining queer feminist art histories - Amelia Jones (editor), Erin Silver (Editor)
❤️🔥 Re-reading the Rainbow - Lovett, Stephen, Burns, Pepper, Orjis, Richard, Tora, Luisa, Coutts, Brent
❤️🔥 Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture -Amelia Abraham
❤️🔥 The Queer Art of Failure - J. Jack Halberstam
❤️🔥 Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration - David Wojnarowicz
Queer poetry
❤️🔥 Spoiled Fruit: Queer Poetry from Aotearoa - Damien Levi (editor), Amber Esau (editor)
❤️🔥 We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics - Andrea Abi-Karam (Editor), Kay Gabriel (Editor)
❤️🔥 I Am in Bed With You - Emma Barnes
❤️🔥 Regular Aotearoa poetry zine - https://www.overcommag.com
Queer graphic novels
I have lots to put here, but can’t be arsed at this second
Queer fiction
I don’t really read fiction books, so please submit your recommendations
Queer adjacent thinking philosophy books
❤️🔥The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? - Michael J. Sandel
❤️🔥Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World - Rutger Bregman