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Tor.com is one major place I hear about science fiction and fantasy books–they do deal announcements, cover reveals, lists of new releases, and reviews, as well as columns reviewing backlist work. I really like “The Book Queered Me,” for instance, which is people looking back on books that were important to their understand of identity. 

The Book Smugglers isn’t really that active anymore, but they reviewed science fiction and fantasy media, as well as publishing essays and short fiction and I read them religiously for a long time.

Book Riot I read occasionally and they publish bookish news and essays. I forgot I was subscribed to their LGBTQ+ book newsletter for a while and went through the emails I’d been sent earlier this week and that particular newsletter is nice because it highlights a couple books and does a round-up of recent news about queer books.

Austraddle’s book section, especially the Rainbow Reading column, does reviews, interviews, and news related to queer books, mostly queer women. It’s helpful for non-SFF stuff because I’m usually very up-to-date on news in the science fiction and fantasy world but they cover poetry, nonfiction, romance, etc.

We Need Diverse Books is a great resources, of course, and I really like the interviews they do with authors of recent releases.

LGBTQ Reads is an invaluable resource for queer literature–new release highlights, author interviews, lists of books by representation or age/genre if you’re looking for something specific.

Electric Literature is where I hear about more adult lit fic/nonfiction stuff, they also have a column called Novel Gazing in which people write about books that have impacted them and I find that really interesting. They also publish poetry and short fiction but I haven’t read much of that.

The Lesbrary does reviews of books about lesbian and bisexual women, as well as round-ups of new releases. Good resource for keeping up with sapphic books.

Would it be helpful for non-trans people to take the survey, or should we just stay out of it?

TLDR: if you are cis, signal boost the hell out of this survey instead. signal boost it to various communities, especially ones reaching out to marginalized communities. if you are trans, then please also signal boost the hell out of this survey too.

We need to signal boost this to rural & non-urban-areas so the trans people there get counted, we need API (Asian, Pacific Islander) trans people to get counted. We need bi/pan trans people, we need military veterans, we need other demographics too so please contact the people who are conducting this survey. Here are their information.

You can be in a different country, and still fill out the non-US-citizen survey, as long as you're trans.

Do Not Hesistate With Any Question or Accessibility Problem, Please Contact & Ask These People:

General USTS team - Equipo general de la USTS [email protected]

Josie Caballero – USTS Project Manager -- Dirección de Gestión de la USTS [email protected]; 202-804-6057

Sybastian Smith – NCTE National Organizer -- Organizador Nacional NCTE [email protected]; 202-804-6042

Alex del Rosario – USTS Outreach Manager -- Gestión de Difusión de la USTS [email protected]; 202-804-6052

Other Q&A's that came up during a 2021 November 16th presentation:

firstly, NCTE USTS did not get authority (IRB approval) to go into the protected class of incarcerated trans people

secondly, you don't have to be a US-citizen to contribute data, but you will be given a non-us-citizen survey.

If you reside in the US but are just temporarily abroad, then you would be able to respond to the US-resident survey. If you are permamently living abroad, you would take the survey for non-US residents.

if you have any other questions about these categories then please contact the USTS team for help.

The rough timeline for the USTS:

Pledge Period is until the end of January

Fielding Period starts around the beginning of February with a 6 week survey window

Report writing with start shortly thereafter and go until end of 2022

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Tilda Swinton risked arrest waving a rainbow flag in front of the Kremlin in violation of Russia’s new homosexual propaganda bill. And she wants everyone who can to reblog it in solidarity.

“I amsick will not to choir because i have a heache. i Hope its very and i am so sorry

love,

blue”

MY MOM SAID IF I COULD GET 100,000 NOTES I CAN GET A DAGGER

PLEASE HELP ME

IM NOT ALLOWED TO REBLOG OR SPAM MY OWN POST SO HELP ME OUT GUSY

What I’m sayig is that somewhere, someone’s mother is quite likely approaching the realization that they may actually be compelled to live up to their end of this little bargain.