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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 It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway.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...

Midnight Angel by Kevin Klehr

*I received a free review copy in exchange for an honest review of this book. 

Midnight Angel is short and sweet, laced with the supernatural but mostly about infatuation, dating, and the awkwardness of a declined holiday party invitation. Good for when you want to feel a little bit wistful and hopeful at the same time.

No major CWs, which is a nice change of pace for me.

Red berries on twigs, slightly out of focus on a pale background.


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