Y’all. It has been a great few months for my inner nerd. A lot of the rest of me is exhausted, but the part of me that likes reading books is very, very happy.
Most of this edition is going to be for paid subscribers at first and will be accessible in a month to everyone else, but I have two recommendations I want to give to everybody right off the bat!
Nonfiction: Advocacy Made Easy by Cynthia Changyit Levin
This book was written by a dear friend of mine. If you enjoyed either of my two recent articles Advocacy for Scaredy Cats or 50 things you can do for trans rights, this is the book for you!!
It’s a warmly written, accessible, quick guide to getting started in advocacy. Before you start to say “how do I know anything will help anyways?” this book does a really phenomenal job with connecting stories of real, regular-person activism with genuine community-changing impacts! It’s available for preorder now and I highly, highly recommend it!
AND because the author is so cool and awesome, she shared a 20% off discount code for Good Queer News Readers!! Just use the promo code “GOODQUEERNEWS” at checkout!
Fiction: Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
I think this book might end up being a top book of the year for me. The premise of this book is a hilarious genre blend between classic old fantasy stories and modern sci-fi and AI pilots. Imagine Ancillary Justice but with ruder computers and dracula.
I LOVED the overall flow of this book, the strange found/built family dynamics, the sassiness and affection of the AIs. I listened to this as an audiobook—which is fully cast and phenomenal in its own way—as well as reading the physical book, and I loved both. So queer, hilariously anti-capitalist, and very, very unique!
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