Episode 031 - LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

Just in time for LGBT Pride Month, this episode has us discussing LGBTQ+/QUILTBAG Non-Fiction books! We talk about queer Canadians, own voices, the importance of cultural context, and how this is our newest episode ever (in terms of publication dates for books). Plus: Anna and Matthew will be at the American Library Association conference in Chicago this weekend. Tweet at us if you’ll be there and want to say “Hi!”.

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jessi

Books We Read (or tried to)

• The Lesbian Lexicon by Stevie Anntonym (recommended)
• Queer Game Studies edited by Bonnie Ruberg and Adrienne Shaw (Matthew mistakenly called this Queer Gaming)
• David Bowie Made Me Gay by Darryl W. Bullock (out November 21st, 2017) (recommended)
• Outlaw Marriages by by Rodger Streitmatter
• Queers Were Here: Heroes & Icons of Queer Canada edited by Robin Ganev and RJ Gilmour (recommended)
• • Scott Thompson (of The Kids in the Hall)
  • LOOK: Lesbian Organization of Kitchener
  • LOOT: Lesbian Organization of Toronto
• The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Health Care edited by Zena Sharman (recommended)
• The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (recommended)
• The Life and Times of Butch Dykes (series) by by Eloisa Aquino
• The Case of Alan Turing: The Extraordinary and Tragic Story of the Legendary Codebreaker by Éric Liberge and Arnaud Delalande (recommended)
• My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi (recommended)
• • Goodreads review that suggestions Nagata Kabi is “non-binary and possibly asexual”
• Cities vol. 1 by Anand Vedawal (recommended)
• The Prince of los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco

Books We Mentioned

• On Trails: An Exploration by Robert Moor
• Fun Home and Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
• Pedro and Me by Judd Winick (that page shows the terrible cover) (recommended)
• Two or Three Things I Know for Sure and Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature by Dorothy Allison
• Forward by Abby Wambach
• Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee (recommended)
• My Body is Yours by Michael V. Smith (recommended)
• Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam
• Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme edited by Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman
• Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (recommended)
• Tomboy Survival Guide by Ivan E. Coyote (recommended)
• Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
• Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh (recommended)
• Princess Jellyfish (series) by Akiko Higashimura (recommended)
• DAR (webcomic) by Erika Moen
• How to be a Guy (series of articles) by Jay Edidin (recommended)

Links, Articles, and Things

• Our list of genres
• QUILTBAG definition on Wiktionary
• LGBT Pride Month
• QZAP: The Queer Zine Archive Project
• Mass Effect
• • Kaiden Alenko
• Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian
• Broad City
• The Imitation Game
• Otokonoko: A frustratingly brief WIkipedia article about crossdressing in Japan

Questions

• Do you want a postcard? Email us your address!
• Will you be at ALA in Chicago? Let us know!
• Got any recommendations for asexual non-fiction?

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Join us again on Tuesday, July 4th, when we’ll talk about Reading Exhaustion and Reading Slumps (or maybe a super secret surprise).

Then come back on July 18th when we’ll be discussing Legal Thrillers!