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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 It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway.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: More Teeth for the Tooth Club! (Most Expensive)

After the bartender's lengthy and mostly useless fairytale and finishing the rest of my anthology in a single go, we realize how late it's gotten and figure this town is as good a place as any to spend the night. Sure beats sleeping on the ground again. We barely manage to get a room with what little money we still have and the next morning we decide to barter again. Everything is so expensive with this falling book calamity happening so I offer Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, my most expensive book and it seems we have a bit of luck! The shop keep is excited to trade for such a prize and we manage to get more very tasty jerky, a waterskin each, and some additional teeth to fortify my club. Not going to ask why he had those.

Narrated by Alu. Follow her on Twitter and check out her website: Tome Reader Reviews.

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