diversify your queer reads: 2014 books featuring queer people of color

queerbookclub:

Earlier this year, author K Tempest Bradford challenged readers to try a year of books that aren’t written by straight, white, cis men. Some see challenges like this as limiting our reading choices - but in a culture where white, straight, cis narratives continue to dominate, intentionally diversifying the stories we read is an exercise in expansion.

As in the past two years, I put together this list of publications from 2014 with the help of resources like the Lambda Literary Foundation and Sistahs On The Shelf, as well as reviewers around tumblr, goodreads and elsewhere. It has grown thanks to the efforts of small presses like Kórima Press and biyuti publishing. These are all books that feature the voices of queer people of color and/or QPOC protagonists.

Annual disclaimer: There’s no way this list is exhaustive. These are also not personal recommendations, just every title I could find. If I was unsure about a book’s contents (that is, if I was unsure if the qpoc characters were prominent, or if I thought the book might be exploitative), I tried to give weight to who the author is (i.e. I was more likely to include books I know were written by people of color). Of course, I’ll happily add books to the list if you have any suggestions that fit the theme - only books about QPOC, and only works published in 2014.

Here’s everything I found, arranged by genre:

Fiction

Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror

Romance

Poetry

Drama

Memoir/Bio

Nonfiction/Queer Studies

Young Adult

Children’s Lit

Comics/Graphic Novels

(via medievalpoc)

Jul 29, 2015
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  12. jnmldt said: But some of these are written by WYT folks tho???
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