I recently read, from Édouard Louis, Who Killed my Father, and Collapse - which I reeeally recommend. I also bought James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room and Another Country and I’m looking forward to reading them. And in the meanwhile I wanted to get some more suggestions, so thanks in advance :) ✊🏳️🌈
The Culture series by Iain M. Banks is pretty open with trans characters
Oh wow, that’s great to hear, as I love sci fi. Added to my list! ❤️
Big fan of this series. Great stuff.
One of my favorite books is called Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom which is a book about trans existence being pushed into the edges of society. I cried multiple times - its beautiful and devastating and very well written.
Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash was a book about a lesbian whose parents were sued during the Satanic Panic & it essentially ruined their lives & shattered the family. I personally view it as an individual perspective on class just because I know a lot of the Satanic Panic was a cultural manifestation of deindustrialization, most acutely felt in the Rust Belt.
I personally enjoyed Compound Fracture by Andrew Joseph White which is about a trans man in a small town in Appalachia whose family is in a blood feud with a sheriff’s family when his like great great grandfather incited a miners rebellion & the sheriff publicly executed him. Class is pretty obvious in this one. The same author has a couple other books too which I enjoyed.
Thanks so much for the suggestions and (personal) descriptions. I will read all of them :)
I’m surprised no one mentioned this classic yet: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters.
Thanks for the suggestion, I didn’t know it. And I love sci fi / space in general!
I recently read Metal From Heaven which is very queer and very left.
I quite enjoyed Everything for everyone by M. E. O’Brien and Adbelhadi. It’s set in an imagined communist future and a big part of it is the queer experience.
This is my “how to radicalize liberals” book of choice
In an era of distopias, it’ll be great to read an utopia 😅 thanks for the suggestion



