Some real good bi queer or trans novels or long reads
March 15, 2020 2:54 PM Subscribe
Despite no one being ill we are sitting around. I am hoping to catch up on some research about writing styles in male or female protagonist bisexual, queer, or transgender memoir, novels or long stories of any genre except parody. No journalism! Ideally looking for more than 5,000 words and available for free or vlc. If you're too timid to respond - that's what mods are for!
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
posted by okayokayigive at 3:40 PM on March 15, 2020
Peter Darling by Austin Chant
posted by okayokayigive at 3:40 PM on March 15, 2020
Gideon the Ninth is hands down my favorite queer book I’ve ever read with lesbian protagonists (and antagonists). But I’m not sure what you’re asking — is it for writings about queer writing? Or writings from and about queer people? You say novels in the title but then ask that they be free online — I got the aforementioned book for free from the library in digital form. So are library books acceptable? (And why would anyone be timid about this subject?)
Autostraddle is a great source of current and very talented QUILTBAG writers. Some journalists, but mostly personal essays, and a lot of coverage of media of the same genre, such as lists of queer books and longreads available elsewhere.
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 5:33 PM on March 15, 2020 [1 favorite]
Autostraddle is a great source of current and very talented QUILTBAG writers. Some journalists, but mostly personal essays, and a lot of coverage of media of the same genre, such as lists of queer books and longreads available elsewhere.
posted by the thorn bushes have roses at 5:33 PM on March 15, 2020 [1 favorite]
Little Fish by Casey Plett is good.
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman who comes across evidence that her late grandfather--a devout Mennonite farmer--might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, having other problems at hand, but as she and her friends struggle to cope with the challenges of their increasingly volatile lives--from alcoholism, to sex work, to suicide--Wendy is drawn to the lost pieces of her grandfather's life, becoming determined to unravel the mystery of his truth. Alternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited, desperate and mirthful, Little Fish explores the winter of discontent in the life of one transgender woman as her past and future become irrevocably entwined.posted by hurdy gurdy girl at 7:38 PM on March 15, 2020 [1 favorite]
JY Yang's Tensorate series is the best queer fiction I've read this year. It's set in a fantasty Imperial China and transness is a fundamental part of the worldbuilding fabric; children are raised genderless and only have it medically/magically confirmed by choice.
Nicola Griffith is another great queer novelist. All of her books are excellent (I've read all of them, some more than once) but Ammonite, Cold River and the Aud Torvingen books in particular feature lesbian protagonists.
posted by fire, water, earth, air at 10:24 PM on March 15, 2020
Nicola Griffith is another great queer novelist. All of her books are excellent (I've read all of them, some more than once) but Ammonite, Cold River and the Aud Torvingen books in particular feature lesbian protagonists.
posted by fire, water, earth, air at 10:24 PM on March 15, 2020
Imogen Binnie is fine with you pirating her book by the way. Or at least she's fine with ME doing it.
posted by komara at 10:28 PM on March 15, 2020
posted by komara at 10:28 PM on March 15, 2020
Another request for clarification: are you looking for writing about MLM/WLW books (with analysis of writing style), or are you looking for recommendations for MLM/WLW books?
posted by Lexica at 10:23 AM on March 16, 2020
posted by Lexica at 10:23 AM on March 16, 2020
Nevada is quite good and Creative Commons licensed. Available online at haveyoureadnevada.club
posted by Sterros at 1:49 AM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Sterros at 1:49 AM on March 17, 2020 [1 favorite]
I want to second hurdy gurdy girl, I'm halfway through Little Fish and loving it (albeit painfully) and just finished A Safe Girl to love, which is available free right now on her twitter.
I found this question because I was looking through MetaFilter for just such stuff, and although it seems likely OP would have seen it, there's this December post with a reading list heavy on trans men and with lots of good links. I also recently enjoyed (as in very recently, they're not lengthy) Torrey Peter's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker as shared by emirenic in that same post.
posted by Acid Communist at 5:40 AM on March 18, 2020
I found this question because I was looking through MetaFilter for just such stuff, and although it seems likely OP would have seen it, there's this December post with a reading list heavy on trans men and with lots of good links. I also recently enjoyed (as in very recently, they're not lengthy) Torrey Peter's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker as shared by emirenic in that same post.
posted by Acid Communist at 5:40 AM on March 18, 2020
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This is one I ran into a while back: https://www.lambdaliterary.org/2014/02/queer-writing-and-the-strictures-of-identity-politics/
posted by tilde at 3:00 PM on March 15, 2020