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 It wasn't perfect and some of the ideas they had seem out of date now, the ones we know about anyway.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

BBNYA Spotlight - Time's Orphan by Hayley Reese Chow

BBNYA Spotlight - The Sparrow and the Oak Tree by Jamie Jackson

BBNYA Spotlight - The Sharp Edge of Fate by TF Johnson

A Necessary Chaos by Brent Lambert

Consecrated Ground by Virginia Black (Joan of Crows #1)

BBNYA Spotlight - The Half Killed by Quenby Olson

BBNYA Spotlight - The Fairy Wren by Ashley Capes

The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard

BBNYA Spotlight - Stone & Sky by Z.S. Diamanti

BBNYA Spotlight - Smuggler's Fortune by Angela Boord

The Companion by E.E. Ottoman

BBNYA Spotlight - Sea of Souls by N. C. Scrimgeour

BBNYA Spotlight - Salt in the Wound by Benjamin Aeveryn

We've Always Been Queer

BBNYA Spotlight - Poisoned Empire by Elyse Thomson

October Reviews (2024)

BBNYA Spotlight - Orphan Planet by Rex Burke

BBNYA Spotlight - Ordinary World by Jack T. Canis

BBNYA Spotlight - On Silver Winds by Ava Smiddy

October Daye / Inheritance - Essay Series Part Four: When a Villain Lives