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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 It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway.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: Faeries! (Mini Boss Battle #1: First Book or Sequel)

Just as dawn was breaking, everyone in the forest was swarmed by faeries, each one yelling different things at us. The faeries told Heather that because she buys books instead of going to therapy, she had to read her most emotional book or else they would kidnap her and set her books on fire! I put my hands over my ears but could still hear the faeries telling me that because I buy full series without reading the first book, I had to read a first book or a sequel or else the faeries would spoil the endings of all the series I was currently reading. Tears streaming down my face, I grabbed by copy of The Toll by Neal Shusterman and tried to concentrate amid the screams of the faeries and the sobbing of my fellow peasants. Gradually the whole camp quieted down as everyone read while the faeries hovered and glared, sometimes whispering new torments when someone seemed distracted.

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