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Each day of the rest of October, I am going to post about a book written by a member of the LGBTI+ community or a book that has an LGBTI+ storyline.
Book 1:
#Khamr: The Makings of a Waterslams by @JamilFarouk
This book is a socio-political memoir written with uncompromising honesty and searing vulnerability reflecting on how religion, heteronormative shapes our lives. This book writes us into the canon.
#Khamr: The Makings of a Waterslams by @JamilFarouk
This book is a socio-political memoir written with uncompromising honesty and searing vulnerability reflecting on how religion, heteronormative shapes our lives. This book writes us into the canon.
Book 2:
If You Keep Digging by @KeletsoMopai
The collection is piquant, distinctive in its style, the imagery palpable, the writing genius unmissable and filled with enchanting stories about mental-health, migration, hair politics, queerness, spirituality, and grief.
If You Keep Digging by @KeletsoMopai
The collection is piquant, distinctive in its style, the imagery palpable, the writing genius unmissable and filled with enchanting stories about mental-health, migration, hair politics, queerness, spirituality, and grief.
Book 3: The Quiet Violence of Dreams by K Sello Duiker
‘Duiker is to literature what Steve Biko was to politics, both having died at the tender age of thirty but leaving indelible footprints in our collective memory.’ — @SiphiwoMahala
This book is enchanting and searing.
‘Duiker is to literature what Steve Biko was to politics, both having died at the tender age of thirty but leaving indelible footprints in our collective memory.’ — @SiphiwoMahala
This book is enchanting and searing.
Book 4 and 5
Patsy and Here Comes the Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn writes about the interior lives of working class Jamaican queer womxn with mastery. She, through her writing, enables us to inhibit the places that these womxn find themselves in.
Listen: https://bit.ly/30JMzKZ
Patsy and Here Comes the Sun
Nicole Dennis-Benn writes about the interior lives of working class Jamaican queer womxn with mastery. She, through her writing, enables us to inhibit the places that these womxn find themselves in.
Listen: https://bit.ly/30JMzKZ
Book 6 and 7
Queer Africa 1 and 2
These stories explore Desire, disruption and dreams; longing, lust and love - a range of human emotions abound on lives of Africans and those of the diaspora who identify variously along the long and fluid line of the sexuality.
Queer Africa 1 and 2
These stories explore Desire, disruption and dreams; longing, lust and love - a range of human emotions abound on lives of Africans and those of the diaspora who identify variously along the long and fluid line of the sexuality.
Book 8: Becoming Him: a trans memoir of triumph by @landabengz
This is a haunting memoir about Landa becoming. Landa retells his childhood with haunting vulnerability.
Listen to Landa speak about his memoir
https://bit.ly/2GLMZJL
This is a haunting memoir about Landa becoming. Landa retells his childhood with haunting vulnerability.
Listen to Landa speak about his memoir
https://bit.ly/2GLMZJL
Book 9: When We Speak of Nothing by Olumide Popoola
'When We Speak of Nothing We do not end the silence.'
This book is beautifully written, crafted with a delicate hand. In its pages, you see the author deliberately writing queerness into the canon.
I loved it
'When We Speak of Nothing We do not end the silence.'
This book is beautifully written, crafted with a delicate hand. In its pages, you see the author deliberately writing queerness into the canon.
I loved it
Book 10: If I Stay Right Here by Chwayita Ngamlana
This novel explores domestic violence in a same-sex relationship. It speaks into the silence. @ItsLithaAfter9 and I used it in our journal article as it allowed us to think practically about the creation of the second closet.
This novel explores domestic violence in a same-sex relationship. It speaks into the silence. @ItsLithaAfter9 and I used it in our journal article as it allowed us to think practically about the creation of the second closet.
Book 11: In The Dream House by @carmenmmachado
‘I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound.’
This memoir speaks into the archival silence and speaks loudly about domestic violence in queer relationships
‘I speak into the silence. I toss the stone of my story into a vast crevice; measure the emptiness by its small sound.’
This memoir speaks into the archival silence and speaks loudly about domestic violence in queer relationships
Book 12: Pride edited by Shaun De Waal and Anthony Manion
If you want to learn about the history of Pride in South Africa, this book is a perfect start.
If you want to learn about the history of Pride in South Africa, this book is a perfect start.
Book 13: You Have to be Gay to know God by @SKhumalo1987
This is not only a gay book, it is a reflection on the nation and how culture, tradition, heteronormativity and religion construct the confines of the nation
Listen: https://cheekynatives.co.za/siya-khumalo-you-have-to-be-gay-to-know-god/
This is not only a gay book, it is a reflection on the nation and how culture, tradition, heteronormativity and religion construct the confines of the nation
Listen: https://cheekynatives.co.za/siya-khumalo-you-have-to-be-gay-to-know-god/
Book 14: They Called Me Queer edited by Kim Windvogel and Kelly-Eve Koopman
This collection is outrageously queer. It is a queer gathering.
This collection is outrageously queer. It is a queer gathering.
Book 15: Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
‘The absence of any kind of communication from her was not at all like an absence. It was instead a presence: of mind-pain, like a thick, rusted arrow shooting straight into my head....’
This book is so important.
‘The absence of any kind of communication from her was not at all like an absence. It was instead a presence: of mind-pain, like a thick, rusted arrow shooting straight into my head....’
This book is so important.
