Episode 18 - Bisexual Bookworms
Bi Books Baby!! This week I’m joined by Emily Metcalfe as part of Leeds LGBT+ Virtual Literature Festival. We’re talking bisexual representation, “bury your gays”, and unfortunately… JK Rowling.
Be my friend on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/111813300-kit-skailes?shelf=lgbtq-recommendations
LGBT Literature Festival:
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Email: leedslgbtbookclub@gmail.com
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Music: PremiumWave
Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow
Content warnings:
They both die in the end: death
Girl Woman Other: transphobia, biphobia
The Colour Purple: mentions of abuse/sexual assault
Harry Potter: Anti Semitism, JK’s transphobia (no details), Snape being a creep/stalker
Death of the Author: mentions of Woody Allen & Tarantino (no details)
The Bi-ble: chronic illness and sex
In the Dream house: emotional abuse, biphobia, intimate partner violence, survivors of abuse, gaslighting
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: biphobia, bi-erasure
Tarot: Mental health struggles
Bi agenda: bi-erasure, biphobia, bi tropes, “bury your gays” (two bi women are murdered in a book series), transphobia, queer coded villains, homophobia, food, birth, trans pregnancy
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Hays Code Youtube Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsO4fZYHQic&feature=share
Books Mentioned
The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Artful by Ali Smith
The Bi-ble Vol 1 & 2 edited by Ellen Desmond and Lauren Nickodemus
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez
Bump by Matthew Metzger
Freshwater & Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
100 Must Read Bi Books
https://bookriot.com/100-must-read-bisexual-books/?fbclid=IwAR2m16__6D_ISVpGLujIEk8Qegpwa7GmPjfHtJ0Jz6gQtY8Mjp1bJbBVuHE
Bi non-fiction
https://www.autostraddle.com/bisexual-nonfiction-394712/
80 best Bi & lesbian books
https://www.autostraddle.com/80-of-the-best-queer-lesbian-and-bisexual-books-of-the-decade/
Bi Books
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
Eating Chinese Food Naked, by Mei Ng
America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo
Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Bad Dyke by Allison Moon
Out of the Woods by Luke Turner
Autoboyography by Christina Lauren
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
Like Water by Rebecca Podos
Adaptation by Malinda Lo
Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan
My Education by Susan Choi
Another Country by James Baldwin
Abandon Me by Melissa Febos
Vera Kelly Series by Rosalie Knecht
Anthologies
Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World edited by Robyn Ochs and Sarah Rawley
Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way edited by Ron Jackson Suresha and Pete Chvany
Rec*Og*Nize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams
Smitten (poetry)
YA
https://bookstr.com/list/10-incredible-ya-novels-with-bisexual-protagonists/
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Leah on the Off Beat by Becky Albertalli
The Trails of Apollo Series
Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez
Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde
Brightsiders by Jen Wilde