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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 It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway.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
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Clear Your Shit Readathon: Character Sheet

Hello Everyone!

From November 1st to December 27th I will be participating in the Clear Your Shit Readathon to get through my tbr pile (at least dent it, or something). I have been summoned by a wizard to save the land of Shelfla (why Shelfla has been fine during the couple of months leading up to this readathon, I have no idea). Books read for this quest will be tagged with "Readathon: Clear Your Shit" so that it can be a little easier for you to know how it's going. My name is Robin, my fatal flaw is buying a whole series before reading the first book, the only thing that might save me is my strength as a speed reader. Armed with the teeth in my mouth (and maybe some other ones, you don't know!), I will embark on this journey to save Shelfla. 

Anyone seeking information that the wizard has given so far about this whole thing would do well to check out the floating spider scroll of knowledge (I think it's called a "web-site" or something, whatever), you can find that here, you can also read what a very loud narrator-bird is saying about all this here.

Go here to read the whole story.

Name: Robin; Fatal Flaw: Buys a whole series before reading the first book; Top Strength: Speed reader, like sonic, but books; Weapon of Choice: Teeth


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