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Amazing Digital Carcass @amagire.bsky.social · 2h

this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters

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elevated horror: what if you're grieving your loved one TOO MUCH?
folk horror: what if a child's disability could EAT PEOPLE?
supernatural horror: what if your childhood trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
psychological horror: what if your adult trauma could EAT PEOPLE?
body horror: what if your gender dysphoria could EAT PEOPLE?
slasher horror: what if a random guy was trying to kill you, instead of a cop or your boyfriend?

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Cozy Queer 📚🦊 @cozy-queer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m loking forward to this, liked the first 2 books already and this one will have a great main character as well (the one behind the desk) 🥰

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Kay Claire @kayworx.bsky.social · 6d

Just finished going through my editor's notes on my next book 🥳

One week left if you want to sign up for the ARC for it! A Mutual Connection is a contemporary romance about online friends who then meet in real life when they both start working at the same tattoo studio. And they're both nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️

Book cover of A Mutual Connection by Kay Claire on a pastel holographic pattern background. Text around cover from top clockwise: Proudly South African, ADHD rep, they/them pronouns, pan4pan, hidden identity, coming out 19 November, preorders and ARCs now open, e/em/eir pronouns, T4T, tattoo studio, online friends

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 9h

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A picture book written by a father and son. #transbooks

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Call Me Gray – Andrew Larsen - The Trans Literature Database

A child shares feelings about their identity with their dad in this powerful story about change, acceptance and, above all, love.

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Miss Major passed away on Monday. This is her autobiography published in 2023. #transbooks

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Miss Major Speaks - The Trans Literature Database

Miss Major Speaks is both her brilliant life and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth face on the path to liberation today.

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Cozy Queer 📚🦊 @cozy-queer.bsky.social · 2d

This wonderful spicy novel about a high school reunion is released today!
great genderfluid, trans and androsexual representation ❤️
My first - and not last - book by @lincolnmercerbooks.bsky.social .

Review, alt text and content warnings in the 🧵.

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Cover of Atlas and Miles by Lincoln Mercer. Recommendation - full alt text for all pictures at end of thread

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 2d

Is it time for #PortfolioDay again? Uff då. 🇸🇪

I'm Faith; a producer, artist, and author of non-binary transfem experience. I ruin my life for art. Recent years are defined by my award-winning work on Stardust, an indie transmedia sci-fi experience.

The stars are destiny. ✨ @thestarsaredestiny.com

A picture of Faith — a brunette middle-aged lass in cozy plaid flannel — posing in front of Split Rock Lighthouse. To the side is some of her art.

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 2d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): the conclusion of a middle grade fantasy series about a nonbinary knight in training #transbooks

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Sir Callie and the Final Stand – Esme Symes-Smith

In the conclusion of this bestselling fantasy series a nonbinary knight-in-training must fight for the heart of their kingdom against tyranny, once and for all.

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 3d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): a "story of identity, recovery, grief, survivorship, and transness" #transbooks

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Sorry I Keep Crying During Sex - Trans Literature DB

Through lists, theatrical scripts, flashbacks and DMs, Rose's genre-defying memoir is raw and funny, and takes you on the wild ride of a trans twentysomething.

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 4d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Food, Glorious Food! #transbooks

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Queers at the Table - The Trans Literature Database

Queers at the Table reveals the ways that queerness informs food production and restaurant culture and how food empowers queer and trans folk.

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 5d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): It's national coming out day! Here's a quick and easy guide! #transbooks

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 6d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A sapphic space fantasy with swords. #transbooks

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Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 8d

The Transition by Logan-Ashley Kisner

A trans teen’s post-op recovery takes a horrifying turn after a werewolf bite. As Hunter’s body changes again, he must fight to keep the life—and identity—he’s fought so hard for.

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#TransBooks #QueerBooks #Horror #YA

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 7d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "Something in the forest is waking up. It’s hungry–and it wants her." #transbooks

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 8d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A 1932 novel, now in its unexpurgated form, that "celebrates rather than pathologizes its effeminate and sexually adventurous protagonist." #transbooks

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Antonia Aquilante @antoniaaquilante.bsky.social · 10d

A snippet from A Dance of Water and Air for this week’s Rainbow Snippet in honor of its October 1st anniversary.

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#romancebooks #fantasyromance #romantasy #lgbtqromance #lgbtqbooks #bisexualbooks #demisexualbooks #transbooks #rainbowsnippets #booksky

Rainbow Snippets October 4-5

The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend (I'll beg forgiveness in advance for sometimes...

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 9d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A collection of essays in which Riki Wilchins "urges us to imagine a future beyond “male” and “female,” where gender is self-determined, expansive, and free." #transbooks

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Burn the Binary!, Vol. 2 - The Trans Literature Database

In this searing and accessible collection of essays, pioneering activist and writer Riki Wilchins dismantles the rigid gender norms that have shaped our lives.

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 10d

My novella of trans self-discovery is now up for pre-order! You can get Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina (short name Opus) for preorder now. Release date December 12,2025. Ebook $3. Paperback $8.

Thread time.
Itch: anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus
Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/s/994d56a7cb

Guitar Concerto in C Flat Minor, Op. 12: Lucina by S. Morgan Burbank

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Bogi Takács / SONG OF SPORES coming Nov 2025! @bogiperson.bsky.social · 11d

Just got notified by my publisher that Power to Yield earned out! I also got a royalties payment of about $20 😀

Thank you everyone for supporting this weird trans book!! Spreading the word about it helps:

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Power to Yield and Other Stories

Blowing minds, one book at a time. Broken Eye Books publishes the weird side of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. We love all speculative fiction, and the blurrier the boundaries, the better.

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 10d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): More than a dive into gender identity; it’s also a look at the difference between coming out as trans in 2000 when many people reacted to her transition with love and the present era of blowback and fear." #transbooks

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Cleavage – Jennifer Finney Boylan - Trans Lit Database

Cleavage provides hope for a future in which we all have the freedom to live joyfully as men, as women, and in the space between us.

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Trans Librarian @translibrarian.bsky.social · 11d

Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "how is one trans kid who hasn’t even chosen a name supposed to save his friend, let alone the world?" #transbooks

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A World Worth Saving – Kyle Lukoff - Trans Lit Database

When his friend disappears after a conversion therapy group meeting with their unaccepting parents, a trans teen sets out to save them.

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