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 It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway.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

Luck in the Shadows by Lynn Flewelling (Nightrunner #1)

Swordheart by T. Kingfisher

Fate's Edge by Ilona Andrews (The Edge #3)

Be The Serpent by Seanan McGuire (October Daye #16)

Untethered Sky by Fonda Lee

Mid December Reviews (2022)

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher (Clocktaur War #2)

Playlist for Hell Followed With Us

Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews (The Edge #2)

The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones

Sons of Destiny by Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak #12)

Completed Series by Authors of Color (2022 Edition)