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We've Always Been Queer

The podcast is Books That Burn because the original idea was "books that burn you", discussing fictional depictions of trauma. It's also an intentional reminder of the pile of burning books, you know the photo I mean, the one from WWII. It's a pile of books about queerness, gender, and sexuality. Just in case you don't know, the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Science) was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld.  It was a resource for gay, intersex, and transgender people, both of knowledge and medical help. It also helped the community with addiction treatment and contraception. It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway. But they were trying to make queer people's lives better, and they were a community resource at a time when people really needed it. Which is all the time, we always need these accesses. And the Nazis burned the whole library. It took days, they had to drag the books ou...

A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney (Nightmare-Verse, #1)

Rhapsody: Child of Blood by Elizabeth Haydon (Symphony of Ages, #1)

Soul of the Fire by Terry Goodkind (Sword of Truth, #5)

Six Months, Three Days by Charlie Jane Anders

The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco (The Bone Witch, #1)

Dear Martin by Nic Stone (Dear Martin, #1)

The Vicious Deep by Zoraida Córdova (The Vicious Deep, #1)

Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, #1)

Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher, #1)

River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey (River of Teeth, #1)

Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher (The Codex Alera, #3)

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (The Carls, #1)