I follow hundreds of queer book blogs to scout out the best sapphic book news and reviews! Many of them get posted on Tumblr and Twitter as I discover them, but my favourites get saved for these link compilations. Here are some of the posts I’ve found interesting in the last few weeks.
Librarians face threats of legal charges for carrying sex education books and LGBTQ resources. (Want to fight censorship? Here’s an anti-censorship toolkit.)
The rhetoric used to try to ban LGBTQ books hurts queer and trans students.
The queer comics future is bright.
These 20 coming out stories are must-reads.
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Malinda Lo wrote about her upcoming novel, A Scatter of Light, and how publishing queer YA has changed since she first pitched it 8 years ago.
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow was reviewed at NPR.
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor was reviewed at Autostraddle.
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