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catherineldfand I am participating in a giant blog hop with a number of other authors. You can see the full list here. Everyone is offering up a topical blog post and a prize. I'll list mine below, after my post.
As a bi woman married to another woman, I’ve experienced plenty of homophobia, conscious and unconscious, deliberate and accidental. And as with all the other “isms” that are socially sanctioned and maintained by mainstream culture, it’s been an ongoing struggle to root the “lessons” of homophobia and transphobia out of even my own head. We learn to fear, even despise, difference in ourselves as well as others. I want to learn to celebrate our differences as well as our commonalities. As a writer and a reader, one of the ways in which I do that, a way in which I learn, is by reading the work of other authors.
Here are a few of the books that have completely rocked my inner world and helped me understand how I’ve internalized isms and how can I begin to unlearn them. Many thanks to the authors and editors who have given me so much to think about:
Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein
Another Mother Tongue by Judy Grahn
Ceremonies by Essex Hemphill
This Bridge Called My Back edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Butch is a Noun by S. Bear Bergman
Whipping Girl by Julia Serrano
Skin by Dorothy Allison
Bi Any Other Name edited by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumau
I’d also like to do a shout out to some of the organizations that I think are doing great work to support and sustain our communities as well as to make our lives better, locally, nationally and internationally:
All Out – www.allout.org
PFund – http://www.pfundonline.org/
Outfront MN – www.outfront.org
National Center for Lesbian Rights – www.nclrights.org
Please check out these groups as well as the other posts. This looks like it will be an amazing event.
My prize: I'm offering a pdf copy of Silver Moon, my werewolf novel which is currently a finalist for both the Bisexual Book Awards and the Goldies for lesbian lit. To win, please leave a comment telling me what your favorite LGBT or Q book is along with your contact email (I recommend despamifying as (at) since this will be xposted to LJ) between 5/17 and 5/27. I will enter everyone in a drawing and notify the winner via that contact info.
Good luck and good hopping!
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Date: 2013-05-18 08:43 pm (UTC)Thanks for the recommendations!
Date: 2013-05-19 03:56 pm (UTC)Thanks for the recommendations. I'm always looking for new books to read, and I'm just starting to get more familiar with LGBTQ nonprofits as I become more involved in LGBTQ activism.
My favorite LGBTQ book is Kushiel's Dart, by Jacqueline Carey, followed by Melusine, by Sarah Monette. I'm into fantasy these days. :)
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Date: 2013-05-19 07:35 pm (UTC)Well first of all - thanks for the recommendations I will have to note them down on my list - which is getting rather long with all the hoping.
I don't think I have read enough of them yet to have favorites - I can say my first one was by Claire McNab - borrowed from my mother's bookshelves and the most recent was Martyn Pig by Kevin Brooks (thats an YA book).
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Date: 2013-05-28 12:59 am (UTC)I'll email Silver Moon to you tonight.
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Date: 2013-05-21 04:32 am (UTC)humhumbum AT yahoo DOT com
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Date: 2013-05-27 04:21 pm (UTC)tiger-chick-1(at)hotmail(dot)com
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Date: 2013-05-27 08:32 pm (UTC)peggy1984 at live dot com
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Date: 2013-05-27 09:19 pm (UTC)sstrode at scrtc dot com
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Date: 2013-05-28 01:00 am (UTC)