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strugglingtobeheard:

Feminist texts written by women of color - updated!

fearandwar:

mylifeasafeminista:

This list is stil a work in progress, but I really wanted to get it posted. I have either read parts of/all of the texts below or they have been recommended to me….

persistenceanthology:

Maiden Heart - a story by Ivan Coyote

This is a video of one of the Yukon love stories featured in Ivan’s latest book, Missed Her. There’s also an audio version of the story on Ivan’s CD Only Two Reasons.

(Want a taste of a butch-femme love story from the same collection? Try this excerpt from Just a Love Story.)

The video was produced and directed by Ellie Krnich (thanks, Ellie!), with music by Eric Sandmeyer.

bluestarheart:

Alison Bechdel, graphic author/artist of of “Dykes to Watch Out For” and Fun Home.

knowhomo:

LGBTQ* Books To Keep On Your Radar

Tipping The Velvet — Sarah Waters

“Lavishly crammed with the songs, smells, and costumes of late Victorian England” (The Daily Telegraph), this delicious, steamy debut novel chronicles the adventures of Nan King, who begins life as an oyster girl in the provincial seaside town of Whitstable and whose fortunes are forever changed when she falls in love with a cross-dressing music-hall singer named Miss Kitty Butler. 
When Kitty is called up to London for an engagement on “Grease Paint Avenue”, Nan follows as her dresser and secret lover, and, soon after, dons trousers herself and joins the act. In time, Kitty breaks her heart, and Nan assumes the guise of butch roue to commence her own thrilling and varied sexual education - a sort of Moll Flanders in drag - finally finding friendship and true love in the most unexpected places. 
Drawing comparison to the work of Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Waters’snovel is a feast for the senses - an erotic, lushly detailed historical novel that bursts with life and dazzlingly casts the turn of the century in a different light.

maishaparadox:

ebullientefflorescence:

A mother of a small boy who likes to wear dresses wrote a book just for him and little boys like him. It is about acceptance, love and breaking the traditional stereotypes. It is amazing yet sad that we live in a world where I could find this book on the endcap at a major bookstore. I read it to my own little princess boy and his brothers and hope that little by little we can change the world where these sort of books don’t have to be written to help with acceptance, a world where there is no hate. Especially the hate directed to little boys who wear pink and the families that love them.

I want to write and illustrate socially responsible children’s books, it’s all I really want to do y’all

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

How difficult to review and suggest something one adores!  Fun Home, Alison Bechdel’s memoir, is a graphic novel lush with literary references, darkly sweet humor, family, and queerness.  Everyone reading these words: pick up this book.  Read it slowly, because the ending arrives all too quickly.

"I love the idea of being without an identity, it gives me a lot of room to play around; but it makes me dizzy, having nowhere to hang my hat."

"I met my lover two years ago and I fell in love. I fell like a stray star caught in the orbit of Venus. Love had me. Love held me. Love like wrist-cords. Love like a voice from a long way off. I love your voice on the phone."

Ivan Coyote tells the story of learning how to tie a Double Windsor.