Categorie: queer literature
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Gender Queer: een Memoir

https://www.standaarduitgeverij.be/product/gender-queer-9789002277986/ Review: Gender Queer is een biografische graphic novel over identiteit en een zoektocht naar zichzelf door Maia Kobabe (en nu moet ik zien dat ik me niet in pronouns vergis)! Van jongs af aan voelt Maia zich anders. Geboren in een meisjeslichaam maar toch zich meer jongen voelen moet een gevecht zijn met jezelf.…
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Lesbienne worden in tien stappen

https://www.borgerhoff-lamberigts.be/shop/boeken/lesbienne-worden-in-tien-stappen Review: Een handleiding of eerder een gids naar lesbianisme… voor de overtuigden, de twijfelaars en voor zij die graag op ontdekking gaan! Bekeken vanuit Louise Morels standpunt, wat een feministisch standpunt is ook. Louise Morel die zichzelf dertig jaar als hetera (vrouwelijke vorm van hetero) beschouwde komt plots tot de constatatie dar ze misschien…
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This is where we talk things out
Review: This novelette gives off serious ‘Norman Bates meets Annie Wilkes’ vibes, and I didn’t know I needed that! Am I glad I decided to take part in the read along hosted by @theindiehorrorbookclub on instagram. This story is hair-raising. Make sure you read the trigger warnings at the end of the book! Among them…
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Young Mungo

Synopsis: Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation. They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at…
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More happy than not, Deluxe Edition (read along)

Synopsis: (according to author’s website) In the months after his father’s suicide, it’s been tough for sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto to find happiness again—but he’s still gunning for it. With the support of his girlfriend Genevieve and his overworked mom, he’s slowly remembering what that might feel like. But grief and the smile-shaped scar on his…
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The Sky Blues

Synopsis: Sky’s small town turns absolutely claustrophobic when his secret promposal plans get leaked to the entire school in this witty, “earnest, heartfelt” (Becky Albertalli, New York Timesbestselling author), and ultimately hopeful debut novel for fans of What if it’s Us? and To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. Sky Baker may be openly gay, but in his small,…
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Shuggie Bain

Synopsis: Winner of ‘Book of the Year’ at the British Book Awards 2021Winner of ‘Debut of the Year’ at the British Book Awards 2021 ‘A heartbreaking novel’ The Times‘An amazingly intimate, compassionate, gripping portrait of addiction, courage and love.’ The judges of the Booker Prize‘Tender and unsentimental . . . The Billy Elliot-ish character of Shuggie…
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The Prophets

Synopsis: A singular and stunning debut novel about the forbidden union between two enslaved young men on a Deep South plantation, the refuge they find in each other, and a betrayal that threatens their existence. Isaiah was Samuel’s and Samuel was Isaiah’s. That was the way it was since the beginning, and the way it…

