#trr2025

March 21st-31st is the trans rights read-a-thon, and we’re highlighting a few trans books that are ALWAYS AVAILABLE to checkout from the Queer Liberation Library! that’s right, an unlimited number of people can read these at the same time - no wait, no holds!

first up: we’ve got My Body is Distant by Paige Maylott,

compilation of some books from trans authors / featuring trans characters:

(( all these reads were so gratifying. they speak volumes about our resilience.

Books by Trans Authors - Part 1

This recommendations post for Trans Rights Readathon is brought to you by books we already had in our library and it got a little out of hand! We decided first to break things down by other rep in case that was helpful for folks. We have another post planned breaking things down by genre as well, so stay tuned! With series, we only include the first book in the series to keep our stacks slightly more manageable!

As far as we know, the authors here are out as trans / nonbinary / genderqueer. Please don't be a dick and try to force authors who happen to write trans characters to out themselves! We did our best on rep breakdowns, but please let us know if we misfiled anything since we haven't read everything yet.

Trans, Nonbinary & Genderqueer Rep

Pet by Akwaeke Emezi

The Sacrifice by Rin Chupeco

An Accident of Stars by Foz Meadows

Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Thicker Than Blood by Sera Quim

Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender

A Bone in His Teeth by Kellen Graves

The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley

Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon

The Flowered Blade by Taylor Hubbard

You can find more recs for Polyamory Rep, Sapphic / wlw Rep, and Achillean / mlm Rep all written by trans authors under the cut!

2025 🏳️‍⚧️

This years read-a-thon kicks off tomorrow, March 21st, runs up until March 31st, which is Trans day of Visibility.

The goal of this event is to Read, Supprt, and Uplift books written by and/or featuring trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and twospirit authors and characters. And to donate (if you can) to some trans organizations!

More information and how to sign up can be found here

So I figured I’d share my collection and tentative tbr if anyone wanted recommendations. But I’m also so open if anyone has any recs for books.

(The ones in blue are my goals for the readathon)

(* = The first in a series)

Halfway through the Trans Rights Readathon for 2025 and I've finished reading my first book, which was Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White. I really enjoyed it. The book is a fantastic horror story based in a post-apocalypse triggered by a Christian fundamentalist cult. An expression of queer rage and solidarity. I highly recommend it.

Now I'm moving onto some non-fiction with The Book of Non-Binary Joy by Ben Pechey, because lord knows I need some non-binary joy right now.

The donations seem to have dried up, which is understandable given the cost of living permacrisis we are all living in.

For those who don't know, in January 2025 the Queensland state government halted gender affirming care for people under 18. This left 491 kids high and dry without adequate healthcare. Project 491 was set up to try and help those affected and that is where my donations will be going.