Are you looking for reading to occupy your long weekends or summer holidays? Here are some miscellaneous ideas for books written by LGBT+ people to entertain, educate, and move you.
Metacure by Douce Dibondo
Afro-feminist activist and author, Douce Dibondo sees life as black and strange, and writes about it very poetically through her first collection, metacure, published by Blast editions on May 5, 2023. A light and incisive, visceral pen that has something therapeutic, cathartic about it. Read aloud and head held high.
The smell of wet stones, by Léa Rivière
A trained dancer, Léa Rivière choreographs words to create new worlds, beyond any cistern-regulatory framework. Published on July 7, 2023 by Éditions du Commun, his collection of poems The smell of wet stones it is full of rivers, stones and faggots, and develops a form of saving transecology.
The humiliated by Rozenn Le Carboulec
Lesbian journalist and proud of it, Rozenn Le Carboulec takes stock of the stormy adoption of marriage for all, ten years later, in her essay The humiliated, published on May 3, 2023 by Editions des Equateurs. A methodical critique of a media and political frenzy that has traumatized several generations of LGBT+ people.
Love for ourselves, by Erika Nomeni
A black woman, overweight, strange and precarious like the heroine of a novel is something extremely rare. This is the perspective adopted by the author Erika Nomeni for her novel The love of ourselves, published on February 3, 2023 by Hors d’accès editions. The author (also a composer, rapper and DJ) develops the attacks suffered in epistolary form to assign her protagonist, Aloé, to a place that is too narrow and normative: 10 emails in the form of identity research, reflections on the dynamics of gender, sexuality , class and race, but also love, which he sends to a certain Sujja whose answers we don’t know. Which makes this novel all the more disturbing.
Manifesto for a deviant democracy, by Costanza Spina
Director of Multimedia Publishing Manifesto XXICostanza Spina inaugurates the new troubled publishing house, launched by the founders of feminist media Magazine censoredwith an essay on embodied political philosophy, published on 9 June 2023. After growing up to 17 years in Italy, then fleeing the conservatism of the current right-wing regime, he develops in his Manifesto for a queer democracy how to organize in the face of the rise of the far right in Europe and how our queer loves can serve as assets for radical and revolutionary struggle.
Transidentity, a stolen story, by Axel Léotard
As transgender people haunt the media and the political classes in spite of themselves, and Elon Musk wants to outlaw the term cisgender, one can wonder about the history of transidentities that too many boomers want to present as a new fad or the result of recent social pressures. This is exactly what Axel Léotard faces Transidentity, a stolen story, published on May 17, 2023 and to which the first known traces date back. He himself began his transition in 2003, before becoming delegate for trans issues at Inter LGBT from 2004 to 2014, taking part in the circular on the depsychiatrization of trans identities in 2009 and on the modernization of the law on the change of marital status of 2016 , which makes him a valuable witness to the evolution of these issues in France.
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