gender: disaster

non-fiction essays/memoirs:

all about love: new visions by bell hooks

black lesbian in white america by anita cornwell

sister outsider: essays and speeches by audre lorde

mouths of rain: an anthology of black lesbian thought by briona simone jones

blues legacies and black feminism by angela davis

does your mama know?: an anthology of black lesbian coming out stories by lisa c. moore

fiction:

the color purple by alice walker

loving her by ann allen shockley

the gilda stories by jewelle gomez

in another place, not here by dionne brand

pomegranate by helen elaine lee

the summer we got free by mia mckenzie

these letters end in tears by musih tedji xaviere

dead in long beach, california by venita blackburn

young adult:

honey girl by morgan rogers

escaping mr. rochester by l.l. mckinney

this ravenous fate by hayley dennings

faebound by saraa el-arifa

so let them burn by kamilah cole

where sleeping girls lie by faridah àbíké-íyímídé

adult:

the deep by rivers solomon

sweet vengeance by viano oniomoh

come back (love concealed) by terri ronald

house of hunger by alexis henderson

short stories:

girl, woman, other by bernadine evaristo

the secret lives of church ladies by deesha philyaw

additional info:

-> “why wasn’t this book listed?” probably because it wasn’t black sapphic-centric, the author isn’t a black sapphic themself, or i just simply haven’t heard of it! so feel free to add on if it meets those two criteria

many of these books require trigger warnings, especially some of the older ones that are more likely to feature racial struggles of the time. please do your due diligence and search for tws if you want to read them!

what if we danced in the kitchen……. and we were both butches

☠️ punk butch / teddy bear butch 🧸

happy pride month! this is also me testing gl@ze for the first time lol

My personal recommendations of transfem novels from my favorite speculative fiction genres are these: (the links lead to the goodreads pages of the books)

Sundered Moon by Fae Rynn (sci-fi with mechas, lesbian erotic romance, tw: facism and mentions of arranged marriage) - multiple POVs: mostly trans women, but also one cis woman)

We won't be here tomorrow by Margaret Killjoy (sci-fi & fantasy short stories with many, many trans women MCs, tw: facism, murder)

Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (coming of age and sci-fi, tw: parental abuse, transphobia, csa, sexual assault)

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom (coming of age, challenge of the traditional transgender memoir, tw: self harm, sexual assault, murder, abuse, racism, homelessness)

Principles of Non-Euclidean Romance by Ela Bambust (sci-fi, an eldritch entity takes over the body of a dead man and experiences dysphoria, very, very good, tw: dysphoria, past domestic abuse, death)

The Seep by Chana Porter (sci-fi, exploration of grief in a futuristic utopia, tw: ableism, csa)

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (sci-fi, dystopia, fighting back against slavery in space with the power of autism, tw ptsd, psychosis, sexual assault, abuse, racism, slavery) - dual POV: one nonbinary intersex person, one trans woman

The Left Hand of Dog by Si Clarke (sci-fi, space exploration, great for fans of Star Trek, tw kidnapping, anaphylactic shock) - transfem nonbinary MC

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (utopian fantasy exploring how darkness can fester if you get complacent, tw csa (off-page, mentioned), ableism)

Psycho Nymph Exile by Porpentine Charity Heartscape (sci-fi, horror, really dark magical girl story, tw: abuse, sexual assault, sexism, transphobia, transmisogyny, trauma and ptsd)

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt (horror, haunted facist house, a modern gothic horror exposing the rotting underbelly of british society, tw: sexual assault (very explicit), facism, swastikas, body horror, racism, transphobia, terrorist attack, a lot of extreme and gruesome violence, the british)

Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt (horror with a body horror focus, veeeerry fucked up and dark and good!, requires a strong stomach, tw: body horror, incest, csa, sexual assault (explicit), child abuse, domestic abuse, self harm, suicide, insects, parasites, gore, terrorist attack, toxic relationship, worms)

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (post-apocalyptic horror, twist on a gender apocalypse, fighting men & terfs, sooo much gore, tw: gore, body horror, cannibalism, survival horror, sexual assault, pregnancy, transphobia, facism)

Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood (a cyberpunk sci-fi detective noir story, currently still reading it, but I'm having a great time, so adding it to the list, tw: murder, facism)

As Happy as Pirates or Burglars by Jemma Topaz (sci-fi, trans lesbian erotica with d/s)

Our Monsters by Jemma Topaz (fantasy murder mystery with a focus on erotic encounters)

In the Garden of Echo by H.S. Wolfe (horror fantasy erotica, t4tVSeverybodyelse, tw: murder, gore)

Love/Aggression by June Martin (tVSt, magic transfem realism)

These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein (sci-fi noir technothriller, just started it myself so I can't provide tws, but its fuuuun!!!!)

If you want more current & modern transfem literature check out oniongrapefruit's goodreads here, which is another great resource for transfem books.

I also want to give some shoutouts to transfem literature that I've read & enjoyed & just forgot to mention in my first post:

OKPsyche by Anya Johnna DeNiro (contemporary, full of grief, tw for suicidality)

A Safe Girl to Love, A Dream of a Woman & Little Fish (tw attempted sexual assault) by Casey Plett (contemporary short story collections & a contemporary book)

Little Blue Encyclopedia (tw grief, death) & Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante (contemporary fiction framed around a tv show & around a band, uses incredibly great literary framing devices)

Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero (contemporary coming of age, very heartbreaking, tw hate crime)

The Worm and His King, Cranberry Cove & Unfortunate Elements of my Anatomy by Hailey Piper (horror novels + horror & sci-fi short stories)

Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada (contemporary fiction, tw sexual assault, physical abuse)

Nevada by Imogen Binnie (contemporary, early trans lit, veeery fun!, tw drug use)

Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones & Detransition Baby (tw suicide attempt, abusive relationship, unsafe sex) by Torrey Peters (post apocalyptic fiction short story + contemporary fiction)

The Default World & Just Happy to be Here by Naomi Kanakia (contemporary coming of age, tw transmisogyny)

Fluids (tw violence, gore, suicide, incest-reference/incest-fetish-reference, a face gets degloved, brainwashing) & Girl Flesh by May Leitz (horror, splatterpunk, fucked up lesbians)

By Way of Sorrow by Robyn Gigl (mystery, crime investigator, tw violent physical assault, transmisogynistic violence, murder, sexual assault, child abuse)

Cisness or Pleasure (tw suicide, self harm) + Sissy Bitches (tw suicide, self harm) by Alice Stoehr (short story collections, contemporary, futuristic & horror)

Sour Milk (tw graphic sexual violence, incest, abuse, violence, suicide) & Spoiled Rotten (tw suicide, incest, csa, domestic abuse, drug use, graphic gore, violence) by Natalie Celeste Tautou (short story collections, contemporary, horror, dark lit, very fucked up, but I enjoyed them)

+ a few books I really want to check out soon, but just haven't gotten around to yet:

Sisters of Dorley by Alyson Greaves (contemporary forcefem mystery)

The Fifth Wound by Aurora Mattia (fantasy)

She Who Earned Her Wings by Vaela Denarr & Micah Iannandrea (fantasy)

Small Beauty by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang (contemporary fiction)

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor (magical realism)

Girlfriends by Emily Zhou (contemporary short stories)

(a personal addendum to the social media one: you should still post about other countries undergoing genocides, not just palestine. the DRC and sudan, for example. and at the absolute least, keep any talk about your interests to DMs with your friends, but do still talk to your friends about palestine.)