Starting off my morning with a queer read, this one by queer Native writer Joshua Whitehead. It is also SNOWY outside. V rude, NYS.

What queer books are you reading right now? What books by authors of color are you reading right now?

Hello friends!! It's been a crazy three weeks! I'm finally getting the hang of my work at the library! Picking this book back up today after having to put a pause on my reading. What have you all been up to??

Haven't posted lately but I have been reading!! Just haven't been online much because I GOT A JOB AT MY LIBRARY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK I'm a clerk and there are a zillion things to remember and today was my second day. After a year of volunteering, it's weird to be at the library and actually get paid to do work.

So that's my news!!!! Yay!!

GUESS WHO'S EXCITED #MEEEEEEEEEE

One of the most outstanding graphic novels I've ever read in my entire life. Truly breathtaking.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Reading and watching the American Rescue Dog Show 🐶😍✨ have a good night, littens!

Today's reading 📷

I submitted an application for a part time library clerk job at my local library. Keep your fingers crossed for me, folks 😭

Food reading is the best kind of reading 😛 what yummy cookbooks have you read recently??

Happy Friday and happy start to #blackhistorymonth!! Reading a book of poetry by queer black author Justin Phillip Reed to kick off the month ✨

We are still dealing with this polar vortex. It's -1 F out still, not including wind chill. 😭

This graphic novel wrecked me, you guys

Good morning from inside the polar vortex ❄️⛄️ today I‘m reading a poetry collection by queer indigenous writer Tommy Pico, and trying not to freeze my nips off from all this cold 😭 stay warm, Midwestern littens!!

Reading a biography today of the first black woman cartoonist 🖋 going bar hopping w parents this afternoon!

Hello from my therapy office 👋🏼 reading a collection of poetry by a non-binary writer.

What poetry have you been reading lately? What's on your tbr? Any coming out this year you're super excited about? 📖

Watching the winter x games and reading this part memoir, part graphic novel, part study about the Latinx undocumented immigrant experience. Happy almost Friday, littens 💞

Hi guys. That the Supreme Court upheld his trans military ban has made me feel super ick and barfy. So I'm reading a good graphic novel and trying not to spiral into thinking about how this approval will trigger even more legal trans and genderqueer discrimination & exclusion. 😞

What graphic novel and/or comic are you reading right now? Have any recommendations?

The poem in here called "The Rime of Nina Simone" is one of the best poems I've ever read. Honest to god. Highly recommend picking up this collection.

We are prepping for the weekend because that big storm is headed this way! Stay warm to everyone else who's in the same boat ❄️

Have a good night, darlings 💖

Happy Sunday, Littens 🌻 going on a yarn hunt for this bag I'm knitting and was dumb enough to not gather all my supplies ~before~ starting. So I'm in a frantic scramble to find extra yarn 😅

Tonight's agenda includes knitting and reading a book of poetry by a trans writer 💛

Which queer books are on your 2019 TBR?

Amazing. Fierce. Some serious power stands behind the author's words. The emotion feels raw. Outstanding poetry collection about Chinese American girlhood.

Off to therapy ?

In the continuing saga of "Claire is incapable of using a real bookmark and instead uses any random scrap of paper they can find", an expired parking pass is my bookmark for today. That's a step up from a tissue like I had to use last week, tho ?

Tonight's read ✨

Glad to be ringing in the new year with this manga series about a world where growing rare seeds is illegal, and where a human ingesting magical seeds to gain some of the plant's powers is penalty of death!!

Naturally, the main character eats some unknown magical seeds within the first 20 pages. 🌱

Happy 20biteen, littens!!!!!!

I think I'm ready to call it for the year. Again, my disclaimer here is my numbers are so high because I read a lot of comics and don't work, so don't compare my reading number to yours! You did great!!!!! I'm proud of all you guys!!!

So happy almost new year everyone, I am looking forward to moving on from 2018 😅 can't wait for a new year of queer books, queer writers, and works by authors & artists of color. Much love 💛💛💛

Current read ✨ have any of you read this one yet?? It's her debut graphic novel, before Spinning. Gosh Tillie Walden makes great comics

Managed to sneak a photo of my dad reading Lethal White 😝 We drove out to the sticks to a teeny library branch so he could finally get his paws on a copy. I think he's enjoying it but I wouldn't know because he's too busy reading to talk hahaha

Good morning from under my new heated fuzzy blanket mom got me for Xmas 😭😭😭😭 reading all the manga and catching up on some graphic novels today. What graphic novels or comics are you reading right now? ❄️

This manga series looks so cute 😭 remember the movie Osmosis Jones? This series is all about the body's internal cells and functions! The characters on this first volume are red and white blood cells!

Graphic novel, comic, & manga haul from the library today to tide me through to the new year ✨

Thanks for all the well wishes ✨ just finished library volunteering and now ready to read the hell out of BOOM! Box's latest comic novelization, The Backstagers and the Ghost Light. I love these boys so much it hurts 😭😭😭😭

Hi guys. I've been sick since Saturday 😭😭😭 hope you all have managed to stay unsick! Here's this big anthology of a bunch of Christmas mystery stories I found at a thrift store last year. I read my first Agatha Christie story in this book last December! 🎄

ALERT THIS IS NOT A DRILL: Roxane Gay is coming out with a new graphic novel!!!!!

From her Twitter:

"My next comic is called The Banks, three generations of black women who are master thieves in Chicago. Their mantra: steal smart, right a wrong."

Link to website for preorder:

https://tkopresents.com/products/the-banks

#YEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Ikkkkkk I'm super late to the party with this one but HOLY COW IT'S AMAZING

GO PICK THIS COMIC UP IF YOU HAVEN'T YET America Chavez is a queer Latina superhero and she punches stuff really really hard and she's bffs with Kate Bishop and the writer is Gabby Rivera, also queer Latinx, who's the author of the wildly popular book . 💜💜💜💜💜💜

Graphic novel that tells the story of a trans woman going through her first year of transitioning. It's kind of a Trans 101 for cis audiences, shown through the character's perspective to empathize and humanize trans & gnc people's experiences, thoughts, and fears. I liked it!

This graphic novel was one of those "picked up without knowing anything about it" picks, this time because ik the publisher Iron Circus Comics is a great indie comics publisher and the person who runs it is devastating on Twitter ??? there are a couple libraries in my county that are super good about getting indie comics and the big downtown one I went to this morning is one of them god bless

Two weeks ago I posted about my progress at finally getting my library book count down to 3 aaaaaand I ruined that this morning after a trip to the big library downtown. Comic haul 😍😍😍

Current read. Collection of writings by 14 Latinx queer activists that chronicles the history of LGBT+ Latinx activism from the 70s-90s. Key points emphasized so far include the need to abolish the invisibility caused by the binary black/white racial narrative so common in US activism, and the need to create queer Latina/o spaces due to exclusion from mainstream Latinx circles & white gay circles.

This is such a beautiful cookbook 😭

There would be an unsolved murder if any dude did that to my books 😒

https://jezebel.com/im-sorry-to-report-that-jason-momoa-is-actually-gaston-18309...

Underwhelmed. Idk. OGNs are supposed to have longer in-depth narratives, but this story seems shorter and simpler than story arcs in the series--how is that possible?? And I can't tell if the writing is underwhelming or if it's how the letterer presented it; things are exciting!!!! Loud!! Fun!! In the comic, but this was lots of statements with periods. Bland art. Maybe this book is a whole different mood on purpose?

Molly/Mal were CUUUUUUUTE THO

Been hype about this for months and had this on hold for weeks and.......it's so teeny? I'm a little underwhelmed? The book itself is super small and super thin and the last fifth of the book is just a reprint of issue 1 and....ya. I'm gonna read it and I'm gonna try really hard to love it but those are my initial thoughts--did anyone else think this too?

Also, just got a BUNCH of new followers outta nowhere 👀 idk why but hey folks 👋🏼

Would like to share w everyone that I only have three entire books out of the library!! This is a big deal for the person who, earlier this year, had 138 checked out at one time 😭😭

Stunning photo book by and about, and I quote, "masculine dykes" who ID as butch. It's mostly photos; I wish there were more interviews, but for what it has, I'm totally happy. There's still a strong strong stereotype about who and what butches are, so the author wanted to highlight some of those who are butch so they could show what being butch means to them. Even featured some butch trans dykes which makes me thrilled ??

IM SO HAPPY I LOVE MEG CABOT

Back at grandparents for thxgiving. Her stack of current reads ✨ happy thanksgiving folks: remember the origin of this holiday, teach your kids the truth about it, and I hope you all enjoyed your turkeys 🦃 (related, did any vegetarian or vegan try Trader Joe's new meatless turkey roast??? It was so good 😭)

Hmmmmm.

I can't figure out the intended audience. The 1st part seems like a "queer identities 101" for cis folks, but then the 2nd part is a "how to relationship" guide that is super general. And then the last part is "coming out 101" and seems more directed towards queer folks! I'm confused!!!

The identities covered include trans, nonbinary, and asexuality (not complaining, but also very confused. Why is asexuality mushed in w gender ID?) ⬇️

Soooooooo glad I decided to check out netgalley last night 💜✨

#HPSortingHatQuiz

Unsurprising. I've always been gryffindor with ravenclaw a super close second. I'm this weird and frustrating combination of "let's really sit and think about all our options before we say or do anything" while simultaneously "I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO DARES RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW LETS GO I WILL END YOUR WILL TO LIVE"

there is always a massive internal struggle going on inside my head: to throw down, or to think before acting. ?

Unrelated, does anyone here have iOS 12 on an iPhone 6? Are you having issues with push notifications on litsy? I just updated to iOS 12 last week and all of a sudden my litsy push notifications aren't working. I sent in a help message Thursday but haven't heard any response yet so I'm wondering if anyone else is having this issue??? I miss not being notified when you guys talk to me 😭

Anyone else have a thing for book adaptations of tv shows? I loooooove the CSI novelizations. They aren't nearly as stressful as the actual tv show 😅 I used to love the show when I was 12-14 ish but then my anxiety disorder developed and now I can only watch cartoons and nature tv shows without flipping out. The books, however, are wonderful!!