Happy Pride Month! To highlight the occasion, our staff member Elie Darling cobbled together a list of suggested readings and podcasts consisting of long-time favourites and discoveries.
She Her Dyke (podcast)
An interactive podcast discussing topics within and out of the (L)GBTQ community. Hosted by @blvckpolitics , @peaceloveandlex, and @_kayswole.
Disability After Dark (podcast)
This is a podcast that looks at disability stories. it’s like sitting down with a really close friend to have real conversations about disability, sexuality and everything else about the disability experience that we don’t talk about; the things about being disabled we keep in the dark. The show is hosted by Disability Awareness Consultant Andrew Gurza.
What the trans!? (podcast)
UK-based news podcast for trans and non-binary folks and our allies.
Two Spirit Talks (podcast)
Our stories are a reflection of our people, and it is time for the voices of our Two Spirit family to be heard. Join us each month to hear directly from our community about ceremonies, songs, and stories of solidarity that are helping us to build upon the diverse teachings of our pasts towards a brighter Indigenous future for all.
Bad Gays (podcast)
A podcast about evil and complicated queers in history, hosted by Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller.
The Good Arabs, Eli Tareq El-Bechelany Lynch
The Good Arabs gifts the reader with insight into cycles and repetition in ourselves and our broken nations. This genre-defying collection maps Arab and trans identity through the immensity of experience felt in one body, the sorrow of citizens let down by their countries, and the garbage crisis in Lebanon. Ultimately, it shows how we might love amid dismay, adore the pungent and the ugly, and exist in our multiplicity across spaces.
Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller
Part-revisionist history, part-historical biography and based on the hugely popular podcast series, Bad Gays subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ history, sexuality and identity through its villains and baddies.
Full-Metal Indigiqueer, Joshua Whitehead
About: This poetry collections focuses on a hybridized Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa who brings together the organic (the protozoan) and the technologic (the binaric) in order to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. This Trickster is a Two-Spirit / Indigiqueer invention that resurges in the apocalypse to haunt, atrophy, and to reclaim.
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, Dean Spade
Wait—what’s wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and “equality” strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state’s institutions. But is this strategy effective?
That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation:
As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That’s Revolting!. This timely collection shows what the new queer resistance looks like. Intended as a fistful of rocks to throw at the glass house of Gaylandia, the book challenges the commercialized, commodified, and hyperobjectified view of gay/queer identity projected by the mainstream (straight and gay) media by exploring queer struggles to transform gender, revolutionize sexuality, and build community/family outside of traditional models.