queer Canadian women 2022
Nov. 1st, 2021 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hermionesviolinSo, my local library's LGBTQ+ Book Group is meeting January-June next year, and I think my sending the convener Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian's 2017 blog posts Six Canadian Trans Women Writers You Should Know and Six More Canadian Trans Women Writers You Should Know blogposts really impacted her -- of the 6 books, 3 are by trans and/or Canadian woman authors 😂
I annotated the email with GR links to the books, publication dates (I feel like this season has a lot more very-recent books than previous seasons, but maybe not?), and some comments of my own.
I annotated the email with GR links to the books, publication dates (I feel like this season has a lot more very-recent books than previous seasons, but maybe not?), and some comments of my own.
January 13, 2022 -- For a classic feature this season we’re going to read, The Price of Salt AKA, Carol, by Patricia Highsmith and a recent biography (published January 2021) on Highsmith by Richard Bradford.
The Price of Salt (fiction) by Patricia Highsmith [1952]
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith (nonfiction) by Richard Bradford [January 19, 2021]I got this first book out from the library after I saw the 2015 film Carol but then didn't get around to reading it... Highsmith sounds like a fascinating person, but I'm still mostly on a break from books by white dudes; dilemma...
February 10, 2022 -- The Prophets (fiction) by Robert Jones Jr. [January 5, 2021]GR blurb: "A 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." -- written by an American Black man (I had heard of this book before, but was today years old when I realized it was written by Son of Baldwin)
March 10, 2022 -- The Subtweet (fiction) by Vivek Shraya [April 7, 2020]2 South Asian Canadian female protagonists (one is trans), author is same -- is about an intimate friendship
April 7, 2022 -- Shadow Life (graphic novel) - Hiromi Goto, Author and An Xu, Illustrator [March 30, 2021]Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian says (of the protagonist), "Kumiko is a bisexual Japanese Canadian woman in her 70s who is stubborn, quirky, funny, and independent." And the author seems to also be an Asian Canadian woman.
May 7, 2022 -- Ordinary Girls (memoir) by Jaquira DÃaz [October 29, 2019]author is a Puerto Rican woman
June 9, 2022 -- Detransition, Baby (fiction) by Torrey Peters [January 12, 2021]author is an American trans woman
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Date: 2021-11-30 08:02 pm (UTC)Ugh, this is so my brand but how would I find time to read books?
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Date: 2021-11-30 08:59 pm (UTC)You ostensibly have book-reading time on your calendar 3 days/wk.