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Trans Librarian
@translibrarian.bsky.social
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Retired librarian. Can be found at https://translibrarian.com building the trans literature database and occasionally blogging.
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction" #transbooks

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Algarabía by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera cover image has a cenataur with the human top part of it wearing a white tak top and a mask.
November 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A disgraced detective is hired to investigate a ritualistic killing in an isolated prison town. #transbooks

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Dove's Eyes by Kienn Nguyen. Purple and beige cover with a bloody symbol and knife beneath the title and an outline of a church in the background.
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Happened to notice the ebook version Moonflow by Bitter Karella is on sale for 50% off (4.99) right now.

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Moonflow by Bitter Karella. "A bizarre and fiercely original splatterpunk phantasmagoria of queerness"- Eric Larocca. Cover has a long haired person lying prone seen from the top of the head with horns or mushrooms growing from them and a skull and distorted skeleton above. Splatters of blood over the image.
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "A transgender teen’s post-op recovery is derailed when he is bitten by a werewolf and his body begins to change." #transbooks

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A trail of blood leads into a snowy, dark woods. A broken ice hockey stick lays to the side. The Transition by Logan-Ashley Kisner, author of Old Wounds
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Witchcraft is hard. Families are harder. The latest from Charlie Jane Anders. #transbooks

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Charlie Jane Anders. Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Light text on dark purplish background of tree branches with daisies scattered about.
November 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A debut poetry collection on "queerness, gender identity, neurodivergence, and mental illness." #transbooks

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Anthropological Study by Lauren Miller. Cover has a hand holding a flower, emerging from a galaxy in the universe.
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A book of essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color #transbooks

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Both/And: essays by trans and gender nonconforming writers of color, edited by Denne Michele Norris with Electric Literature. Both/And text takes up most of the image and is in bright yellow, surrounded by pink and blue.
November 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): The latest from horror writer Gretchen Felker-Martin. #transbooks

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Cover image of a pale human with glowing eyes and film emerging from their mouth. Text: Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin. Do you want it.
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): An academic book about intersectionality in the experiences of transgender people. #transbooks

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Transgender Intersections by Carey Jean Sojka and Kylan Mattias De Vries. Cover has the pink blue and white colors of the transgender flag.
November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Six and Green are "going where no Asian American trans woman has gone before: the men’s pro indoor volleyball league." #transbooks

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Hot Girls with Balls: a novel by Benedict Nguyễn. Text over a stylized drawing of a next with two balls hitting it from behind.
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): The third and final book of Her Majesty’s Royal Coven series. #transbooks

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Human Rites by Juno Dawson
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Third installment of a "queer, anarcho-punk fantasy" series. #transbooks

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The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice by Margaret Killjoy. Cover has a bull's head at the top and flames on either side of the bottom with the title text between.
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A novel exploring "love, loss, trans panic, race, millennial angst, and the relationships—familial and romantic—that make us who we are." #transbooks

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Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan cover shows a young woman lying prone on a sofa, her arms flung over the side and she looks bored.
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Charlie has been assigned the worst roommate: Jasper Grimes, the boy who broke Charlie’s heart the year before he transitioned. And, Jasper doesn’t recognize Charlie. #transbooks

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And They Were Roommates by Page Powars. Cover image with two boys facing one another. The blond headed boy has hold of the tie of the other boy who is wearing a school uniform and glasses.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A picture book celebrating Marsha P. Johnson. #transbooks

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A colorful drawing of Marsha P. Johnson takes up most of the cover. Toward the bottom there is an older person and a child on a park bench, and on the bottom right are six people smiling and celebrating.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A YA trans rom com about two boys who meet in a motel lobby on their way to different locations. #transbooks

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Cover of In Case You Read This by Edward Underhill. It features a two story motel with a person at the railing on each floor. The titled is styled like a neon sign for the motel.
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): a poetry collection from a queer and trans Palestinian #transbooks

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Black text on white background: SAGE - YAFFA Author of Blood Orange. Sage has leaves attached to the ends of the letters.
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): a "personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and acts of resistance." #transbooks

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Multicolor text on blue background with stars: So Many Stars an oral history of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and two-spirit people of color by Caro de Robertis.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A trans high schooler returns to football to help her old team win. #transbooks

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One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller. A teenage girl in a football uniform leaning against a goal post while a football team plays behind her.
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "An incendiary anti-capitalist response to climate change rooted in hope for the future" by trans author L.E. Fox #transbooks

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This Book is a Knife: Radical Working-class Strategies in the Age of Climate Change by L.E. Fox cover image with title text above parting waves.
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Trans history in graphic novel form. #transbooks

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Trans History from Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett. Cover with comic panels of various time periods.
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.” #transbooks

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The Dad Rock that Made me a Woman by Niko Stratis. Cover image is text only.
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "A pulpy, mytho-poetic dispatch from an anarchist jurisdiction” #transbooks

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Local Woman by Jzl Jmz. Photo of a black woman's hand holding a cigarette with warning boxes stating "Warning: Local Woman causes deep breaths, heart palpitations, cold sweats & may complicate sensuality" and "Authorities warn Local Woman contains estrogen and melanin"
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): An historical novel about a trans man surviving Nazi Germany. #transbooks

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The Lilac People by Milo Todd cover features a man in old fashioned clothes walking away through a field.
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "AI meets American Girl Dolls in this quirky novel about a group of preteen androids" by nonbinary author Steph Cherrywell #transbooks

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Cover image for Unboxing Libby, drawing of three dolls in boxes, Roxanne, Libby and Wendy. Libby is in the center, wearing jeans and a t-shirt and holding their hand up.
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM