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hello fellow non-Black tumblr users. welcome to my saw trap. if you'd like to leave, please name one (1) Black woman author who is not Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Octavia Butler, or N.K. Jemisin. bonus points if she's published a book in the last five years.

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For my own future reference, and for anyone else who wants it, a list of authors mentioned in the notes. (I cannot promise this is comprehensive, there are a lot of reblogs and I might have missed some.) I've included a link for each author, where possible I've tried to find one that leads you to their books, prioritising own websites/publishers, falling back on wikipedia otherwise.

If you find any mistakes in the links let me know and I'll edit. This post will be in two parts, because I literally broke tumblr with how many authors there were. I think it's about a hundred and fifty.











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And here's part two:










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Ofliterarynature's 2025 Books
All of the books I read in 2025, minus a few short stories. Storygraph tells me at least 2/3 are parts of series, so good luck to anyone...
List Challenges

Another year, more books read, and new list!

How many of my books have you read?

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some very interesting ones on here! to read
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Zines Read 2025

  1. Connecting with Our Radical History in Cataloging / Violet Fox, Elissah Becknell, Tina Gross, Amy Gabbert-Montag, Charlotte Kadifa, Jaylene Telford (Minnesota, Oct. 2024)
  2. Gut Bucket Research #11 / David Tighe (Apr. 20, 2024)
  3. The Desert Sun #66 / Billy (Albuquerque, NM; Jan. 30, 2025)
  4. Don’t Just Do Nothing to Counter Fascism: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism - Yes, You! Yes, Now / alice, asher, cat, chanaleh, cindy, cindy barukh, hannah, jhaavo, lilli, mazel, scarab, simcha, vicky (Nov. 2024)
  5. To Change Everything: An Anarchist Appeal / CrimethInc.
  6. The Climate Is Changing: False Solutions to the Climate Crisis / CrimethInc.
  7. How to Support Your Non-Binary Family Member / Elliott Giannini (2021)
  8. CrimethInc. Gender Subversion Kit #69-B [For every girl … For every boy …] / CrimethInc.; Nancy R. Smith [Jacinta Bunnell] (Olympia, WA)
  9. CrimethInc. Gender Subversion Kit #69-C [For every fascist …] / CrimethInc.
  10. Borders: The Global Caste System / crimethinc.com
  11. Beauty [Subversion Kit] / CrimethInc. Workers’ Collective (Salem, OR)
  12. Capitalism Is a Pyramid Scheme / CrimethInc. (Salem, OR)
  13. The Police / CrimethInc.
  14. Radical Nuns: A Feminist Fanzine and Coloring Booklet / Cait Olds
  15. Reclaiming Our Ancient Wisdom: Herbal Abortion Procedure and Practice for Midwives and Herbalists / Catherine Marie Jeunet (Eberhardt Press)
  16. The Desert Sun #67 / Billy McCall (Albuquerque, NM; Feb. 28, 2025)
  17. Basic Paper Airplane #15: Zines That Never Existed / Joshua James Amberson (Portland, OR; Oct. 2024)
  18. Behind the Zines #19: A zine about zines! / Billy (ed.) (Albuquerque, NM; Mar. 2025)
  19. MY BABY MY BABY MY BABY: an excerpt from my upcoming magnum copus about my dead cat / enola dismay & the ghost of abby acab (Jan. 2025)
  20. [Untitled - tree bark rubbings] / CP (Oct. 31, 1995)
  21. Hub / Richard Howard (Dublin, Ireland: Pure Fabrication, Apr. 30, 2024)
  22. the emcyclopedia, v. 0: the emcyclopedia presents a Double Acrostic on the theme of St. Valentine’s Day (Athens, GA; Feb. 2025)
  23. The Desert Sun #68: Special Edition!! split w/The Homebody Herald / Billy & Juli JumpRope (Mar. 27-29, 2025)
  24. Room for Rent / Bill Sassenberger (Tucson, AZ: Fluke Publishing, c2025)
  25. Collector #2: Wild West / Jessica Hoofnagle (Fluke Publishing)
  26. The Desert Sun #69 / Billy McCall (Albuquerque, NM; Apr. 29, 2025)
  27. The Desert Sun #70 / Billy (Albuquerque, NM; May 29, 2025)
  28. [How to Cook Fish] / [Unknown]
  29. The Desert Sun #72 (June 2025)
  30. Uncivilized and Queer: an anti-essentialist critique of gender / Isabel D’Nihil (Cobleskill, NY: Campaign to Play for Keeps; Fall 2023)
  31. Asymmetrical Anti-Media #18 / Jason Rodgers (Cobleskill, NY; Spring 2025)
  32. Your Car Is Designed to Kill People: an essay presented as poems (North Carolina)
  33. Your house is not made to last / MattCDRom (North Carolina)
  34. Ritual: a critique of religious theorists / MattCDROM (North Carolina)
  35. The Desert Sun #73 / Billy (Albuquerque, NM; Aug. 27, 2025)
  36. Bad Bosses / c. hart (ed.) (Summer 2022)
  37. she/they: a collaborative zine by + about people who use she/they pronouns / c. hart (ed.) (Summer 2023)
  38. A Woman’s Choice, Inc.: a zine about abortion access and motherhood / C. Hart (Spring 2022)
  39. 20 months: A zine about pumping / C. Hart; R. Dillwood (ill.) (May 2021)
  40. Posthumous: a celebration of life for defunct DIY music venues / Elliott Giannini (ed.) (Olympia, WA; 2025)
  41. Zisk #36: Dick Allen’s Hall Call! (2nd pressing) / Mike Faloon & Michael T. Fournier (eds.) (Patterson NY, Yarmouth Port MA; July 2025)
  42. Weeping Willow: a horror fanzine w/feeling #1: Personal / Charlie Fairfield (Washington)
  43. Life Lessons & Wisdom from Jurassic Park (A Ditto Zine) / Candace Jane Opper (2023)
  44. Make All Our Dreams Come True: 3 Years in Milwaukee / Krystle Ratticus (July 2025)
  45. We Should Close / Krystle Ratticus (2025)
  46. Behind the Zines #20: A Zine About Zines / Billy McCall (ed.) (Sept. 2025)
  47. Surrendering To The Sun: a love letter to cyanotype / Rachel Mulder (Ashland, OR; April 2023)
  48. Biff Boff Bam Sock #6: Hoja de Trampas: A reference guide for Spanish grammar / Anna Jo Beck
  49. The Desert Sun #74 / Billy McCall (Albuquerque, NM; Oct. 8, 2025)
  50. The Desert Sun #75 / Billy McCall (Albuquerque, NM; Oct. 30, 2025)
  51. Ten Types #1: Ten Types of Coffee / Billy McCall (Oct. 2025)
  52. TV Grime, v. 4: Twin Peaks (1st ed.) / Luke Geddes (Milwaukee, WI: Works of Love; April 2024)
  53. The Desert Sun #76 / Billy McCall (Albuquerque, NM; Nov. 26, 2025)

Faves of 2025: SHE/THEY and POSTHUMOUS are so so good, in both cases I immediately wanted to steal their ideas and do my own versions! Anything by Ratticus is always a forever favorite. I also recommend following the link to the emcyclopedia; Emileigh recorded an audio version and she has such a lovely voice! This year, most of my zines came from Antiquated Future and Behind the Zines, two quality distros, but I do want to branch out more and am open to suggestions.

zines to read some of these sound so interesting 👀 i’ve even read some!!! i really liked the zines that never existed one
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The Early Gay Best Sellers, 1950s

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Parts: (1930s–1940s) · (1950s) · (1960s)

Although widely regarded as a conservative and conformist period, the 1950s were the decade in which the gay rights movement truly began to assert itself in the public eye. It was also when activists began to score their first victories: in 1958, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that material referring to homosexuality is not inherently obscene — an outcome that paved the way for broader publication and distribution of gay-oriented media.

As a result, gay literature continued to gain prominence in mainstream culture, as evidenced by its increasing number of entries on The New York Times Best Seller list. Historical fiction became especially popular at the time: its distant settings, particularly in Greco-Roman contexts, provided a veil of detachment that alleviated public unease and enabled more candid depictions of homosexuality.

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fascinating lgbtqa history publishing to read maybe
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The 2025 Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction (TFR Awards)
Thirteen early contenders for the best transfeminine novel of 2025. Voting is open until December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.
The Transfeminine Review

It's my pleasure to announce the Longlist for Best Transfeminine Fiction in the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards!

This year, TFR recognizes 14 titles from every genre and section of the industry 🩷

Thank you to everyone who voted early to craft this list! Voting ends December 26th at 11:59 PM EST.

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The Longlist:

  • Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders
  • A Mask for the Sun by Kay F. Atkinson
  • Magica Riot: Full Bloom by Kara Buchanan
  • Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan
  • Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
  • Keeping the Peace by Tris Husband
  • A Hungry Light by Zin Nabelle
  • Glitch Girl! by Rainie Oet
  • Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
  • Woodworking by Emily St James
  • A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton
  • A Rotten Girl by Jemma Topaz
  • Machines of Consent by Sophia Turner
  • One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller
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The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman, a hardback book with a brightly coloured cover featuring a wolf and crown against a background of a forest, standing on a gold background.ALT

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Gay, trans, disabled, and sexy author of fiction!

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Anonymous asked:

favorite poems about greek myth?

elucipher-deactivated20151112 answered:

  • wislawa szymborska, “cassandra” (x)
  • seamus heaney, “mycenae nightwatch” (x)
  • annie finch, “chain of women” (x)
  • adam zagajewski, “persephone goes underground again” (x)
  • louise glück, “persephone the wanderer” (x) and “the empty glass” (x)
  • kathleen raine, “medea” (x)
  • elizabeth ballou, “ariadne and the minotaur” (x)
  • p.k. page, “this heavy craft” (x)
  • peter kline, “minotaur” (x)
  • alfred lord tennyson, “demeter and persephone” (x)
  • ted hughes, “prometheus on his crag” (x)
  • margaret atwood, “orpheus (1)” (x), “orpheus (2)” (x), “eurydice” (x) and “siren song” (x)
  • H.D., “sea-heroes” (x), “delphi” (x), “eurydice” (x), “helen” (x), “thetis” (x), “leda” (x), “hermonax” (x), “apollo at delphi” (x), pallinode, and eidolon
  • jack conway, “the agamemnon rag” (x)
  • marina tsvetaeva, “praise to aphrodite” and “the sibyl” and “eurydice to orpheus” (x)
  • blas falconer, “to orpheus” (x)
  • jorge luis borges, “to the one who is reading me” (x) and “oedipus and the riddle” (x)
  • sappho, “hymn to aphrodite” (x) and fragment 102, “blame aphrodite” (x)
  • william carlos williams, “landscape with the fall of icarus” (x)
  • muriel rukeyser, “waiting for icarus” (x)
  • josé emilio pacheco, “new sisyphus” (x)
  • anne sexton, “to a friend whose work has come to triumph” (x)
  • edna st. vincent mallay, “daphne” (x)
  • shakespeare, venus and adonis and “orpheus” (x)
  • christopher marlowe, “hero and leander”
  • derek walcott, omeros and “sea grapes” (x) and “europa” (x)
  • denise levertov, “hymn to eros” (x)
  • judy grahn, “paris and helen” (x)
  • alice oswald, memorial
  • dorothy parker, “penelope” (x)
  • anne carson, autobiography of red
  • yusef komunyakaa, “infidelity” (x)
  • rainer maria rilke, “orpheus. eurydice. hermes.” (x)
  • gregory orr, “betrayal/hades, eurydice, orpheus” (x)
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