Chocolate in the Library

link to the specific video from the screenshot above here:

it's part of their series "A People's History of Native America," playlist link here.

and while I'm here I'll plug some other channels because PBS does solid work. also, iirc they are (...were? I'm not actually sure what applies to them now that they've been defunded) legally required to include captions and they actually do that, so you won't run into auto-generated nonsense.

I haven't checked out PBS Documentaries yet, but they have some stuff tackling similar topics. (I am adding things to my watchlist as we speak.) channel link here.

PBS Terra doesn't pull punches on climate change. channel link here.

PBS Eons has some super cool videos on the history of life on Earth, channel here, and Storied does awesome work on linguistics and mythology, channel here.

aaand while we're talking about defunded USA public media that doesn't pull punches when critiquing our history and government, I am once again going to plug a couple NPR podcasts. Throughline does deep-dives on history, culture, laws, and so on (link here); I'm especially partial to their We the People miniseries, which covers our rights from the Amendments. Code Switch covers culture, focusing on race and minority groups, and has been doing some especially good coverage on what the Trump administration's fuckery means on a practical level (link here). (these aren't the only NPR podcasts that talk about this stuff, but they're the big ones afaik.)

Murderbot: no. we fucking hate each other.

Medical diagnoses - this is nobody's business but yours. You don't owe anyone an explanation for why you are the way that you are

Trauma - same reason as above

Triggers - people can use these against you! Don't give people tools to hurt you. No one has to know what tags you block. Just block tags to stay safe!

Age - age is okay for adults to include but is iffy when you're a teen. Predators want this information, don't give people more than they need. Just state that you're a minor, that's all that anyone needs to know.

In general: stay safe. If you're not comfortable with every stranger out there having access to this information, you shouldn't post it on the internet.

The golden rule of information sharing on the internet is: What would happen if someone saw this who wanted to hurt me?

And also: Why tell people you are a minor? It will not keep you safer. It makes you a target for predators - you've now told them that you do NOT have experience identifying them, and you probably don't have friends who know how to spot the red flags in a "friendly" DM.

Years ago, chatrooms were full of creeps whose first question in private chat was always "A/S/L" - age/sex/location.

I'll be posting at least one free book each day with a nonbinary character (except on July 16, which is Drag Day and will focus on books with characters in drag.)

Some previously-featured books with nonbinary characters that are still free include:

Short stories

Giselle and GUDSKOMPLEX by Freddie A. Clarke - horror short stories

Novellas

The Forester by Blaine D. Arden - Fantasy detective romance, eventual M/M/Nbi

A Strip of Velvet by Rien Gray - Female huntress finally meets the nonbinary forest deity that she worships

Any Fruit but Oranges by Callixta/Calix King - Novella-length poetry book by a bigender poet

Cicerone by Oskar Leonard - Dark fantasy, nonbinary human protagonist connected to a living city

Lantern's Glow by Anemone Moss - Nonbinary hacker receives a message from outer space

Novels

Unbury the Bones by Coyote J.M. Edwards - cozy fantasy with a nonbinary vampire protagonist

Of Melodies and Maledictions by Maddox Grey - romantasy, female witch/nonbinary thief werewolf

Sister Leigh Love and NOPe by Hadiya Hayes - Sapphic omegaverse

Getting Caught Up by Kayleigh Kavanagh - Male basketball player falls in love with his genderfluid childhood best friend

Pixel by Lexa Chara Matthews - Cyberpunk starring an agender alloace hacker

Last Gasp by Emily Riesbeck - science fiction romance with a nonbinary alien and a human man

Threads of Awakening by Emmy Scanga - fantasy romance starring a nonbinary Mexican Fate Weaver

Coffee and Faeire Cakes by Laura Simons - fantasy romance with a nonbinary faerie protagonist

How I Found Myself by Luna Tibling - contemporary fiction with a nonbinary human protagonist

Nonfiction books

In Defense of Sex: Nonbinary Embodiment and Desire by Christopher Breu - Argument for sex (as biology and as desire) to be viewed as inherently nonbinary in social sciences

Zines

Before Nonbinary: A Nondefinitive History Zine by cosmo crouch - Biography of five people who may have labeled themselves nonbinary if alive today

AGENDER AGENDA by DEGROWTH COLLECTIVE - Poetry and art book about destroying gender, colonialism, capitalism, and punishment

How to Question Your Gender Without Going Insane by Isaac James - See title. Author is genderqueer.

the electric mayhem (minus animal bcs hes their kid) arent a polycule, theyre monogamous. but specifically they break up and date each other one at a time. they have a chart.

animal is genderfluid. this is mentioned exactly once bcs kermit calls her he and she starts yelling "SHE/HER!" kermit corrects himself and the show goes on

rizzo made out with gonzo once but he still considers himself straight bcs gonzo is not a guy, he's a whatever. gonzo agrees with this

uncle deadly dated tim curry. it did not end well.

actual emotional scene of gonzo talking about how he feels abt gender. no jokes.

kermit: no matter what, gonzo is still gonzo, and we're always going to support gonzo no matter what gonzo decides- gonzo: kermit. i still use he/him

statler and waldorf wedding episode. theyre divorced by the next

beaker trying to ask bunsen out on a date. in the end it turns out bunsen thought they'd been dating for years.

miss piggy hanging out with drag queens

related, miss piggy starting to present butch and kermit being Really Into It. hes embarassed abt it

pepe begins a story with "when i was a little girl...."

janice decides to start using just she bcs "like, i could never be her"

rowlf mentions having a husband. even kermit is like "??? since when??!"