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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 It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway.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: Potion Zone (Magical Book)

After a very pleasant walk, we come to a hut that seems to be selling magic potions... in the middle of the woods. We could use a few potions just in case we run into anything else that seems to want to slow us down for some reason. So we go in and the woman dusting the shelves looks an awful lot like a witch. Heather and I give each other a questioning glance? Could this be the Witch that the Wizard told us about when we set off on this quest? She sees us a moment later and greets us. She cuts herself off though once she recognizes that we are adventurers of a sort. She asks us, two complete strangers, just trying to shop if we could do her a favor. We turn her down immediately. There's no way we are going to risk getting any more tangled up in this mess. I browse her shelves, knowing full well her eyes are tracking our every movement closely now that we have rejected her. On her shelves, I see a familiar book, Beyond the Black Door by A.M. Strickland. I pat my bag affectionately knowing my own copy is tucked away safely.

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

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