Episode 117: Queer Literature

U LIKE 2 READ?! U LIKE TO READ FROM A PERSPECTIVE OTHER THAN A STRAIGHT CIS MAN?! COOOOOOOOL COOL COOOL COOOL yo, tbh us too! we luv 2 read, luv 2 be queer, luv 2 analyze yr fave readers and remind u that they are lesbians (jane austen BBY do not @ us). Today we have MEAGAN! she is an incredible writer and scholar of QUEER LIT! Some fun books to be on the lookout for this year: Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey Feb 4. (The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.) Real Life by Brandon Taylor Feb 18 (a campus novel that focuses on the interpersonal forces surrounding race, trauma, and queerness) Docile by KM Szpara March 3 (BDSM with Queer characters in dystopian capitalist society. Szpara takes the system of capitalism and drives his point home: when you have no opportunities, when the system is built against you, there is no real free will.) Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan April 7. (A story about love, mythology, mental illness, Japanese beer, and the times we need to seek out milder psychological climate. And with a bisexual female protagonist) Storytelling in Queer Appalachia: Imagining and Writing the Unspeakable Other Collection July 1 (explores sexual identities in rural places, community and individual meaning-making among the Appalachian diaspora, the storytelling infrastructure of queer Appalachia, and the role of the metronormative in discourses of difference Theme music as always by Brandon Payton Carrillo!