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 It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway.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

Singularity by William Sleator

Killers of the Dawn by Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak #9)

The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi

The Wicked Remain by Laura Pohl (Grimrose Girls #2)

Early June Reviews (2022)

The River of Silver by S.A. Chakraborty (The Daevabad Trilogy, #4)

The Queue by Basma Abdel Aziz

Payback’s A Witch by Lana Harper (The Witches of Thistle Grove #1)

Allies of the Night by Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak #8)

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

FULL FATHOM FIVE by Max Gladstone (The Craft Sequence #5 / Published 3rd)

Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May

Hunters of the Dusk by Darren Shan (Cirque Du Freak #7)

Spear by Nicola Griffith

Late May Reviews (2022)

Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Damsel by Elana K. Arnold

The Art of Prophecy by Wesley Chu (The War Arts Saga #1)