I think kesha and penelope garcia would be bffs tbh

I keep forgetting this darn thing exists. you guys are missing out on my silly goose thoughts!! I will try to remember some to share with you 🪿🫶

it should be illegal for straight people to read anything other than queer books during pride month

@mcrane12.bsky.social's new book is a gut punch of queer yearning—gritty, tender, & unrelenting. It aches with first love, grief, & the brutal beauty of being known. Ty @thedialpress.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/y8yspwzs Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/muyfb9yh

Sarah Aziza’s The Hollow Half is a lyric of hunger and inheritance—queer, Arab, and unflinchingly honest. It excavates anorexia, exile, and erasure with aching clarity. Ty @catapultbooks.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/4hxaausz Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/4cexf7pj

Sam Sax’s Yr Dead burns slow and bright—a queer, Jewish elegy told in searing fragments. Political, intimate, and unflinching. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/wjfkndrt Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/28d4z5bm #booksky

Ling Ling Huang’s Natural Beauty is a lyrical horror about the cost of perfection—grotesque, hypnotic, and razor-sharp in its critique of beauty, capitalism, and assimilation. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/48knuuyv Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/ycxcw6xe #booksky

Mad World rips the facade off the mental health industry—bold, abolitionist, & full of Mad pride. A searing call to politicize Madness, deny carceral psychiatry, & imagine collective care. Ty @plutopress.bsky.social! Read my review ~ StoryGraph: tinyurl.com/mpsry3fw Goodreads: tinyurl.com/mrvxzvd3

Green Fuse Burning is eco-horror at its best—grief-soaked, lichen-laced, & defiantly Mi’kmaw. A visceral meditation on loss, longing, & the ache to belong in a world that refuses to remember you. Ty @stelliform.press! Read my review ~ StoryGraph: tinyurl.com/2s4j36dr Goodreads: tinyurl.com/2s44th2e

House of Beth is a queer gothic stunner—darkly funny, haunted, & heartbreakingly honest about harm OCD, girlhood, & the ghosts that cling to us. Ty @simonandschuster.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/5as97tc6 Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdenkyj6 #booksky

Power to Yield & Other Stories is tender eco-speculation at its most unruly—Bogi Takács crafts alien worlds where minds bloom differently, bodies shift fluidly, & connection is a sacred act of resistance. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu86fhtk Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/d3ttznfz #booksky

And Then the Gray Heaven is tender and splintered—grief unraveled through queer love, dissociation, and devotion. RE Katz writes mourning like a mood: lush, elusive, and full of ache. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/4n3xeecu Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/2exwz9w3

You or Someone You Love is abortion care as love language—lyrical, radical, & rooted in reverence. Matthews writes with a doula’s grace, showing that abortion is sacred, communal, & life-affirming. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/2fubyjtk Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/592um6ta #booksky

All This Safety Is Killing Us is abolitionist medicine in action—a searing, visionary collection where the authors expose how policing, prisons, & borders infect healthcare. Ty @natlanticbooks.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review: StoryGraph: tinyurl.com/snjtmnt5 Goodreads: tinyurl.com/bde9ujrw

In Case of Emergency is a blistering, blasphemous scream of a novel. Via Shadi’s drug-fueled drift across a collapsing Tehran, it cracks open gender, class, & survival with electric prose. Ty, @feministpress.bsky.social! Read my review: StoryGraph: shorturl.at/yMqGJ Goodreads: tinyurl.com/yms4mxye

Immaculate Conception is a scalpel disguised as a novel, cutting deep into art, obsession, & technology. The novel follows two art school BFFs turned techno-rivals. Ty @duttonbooks.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review: StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/95NVD Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/Yv6OU #booksky

Plum by Andy Anderegg is a razor-sharp portrait of surviving familial abuse. Told in second-person, it’s haunting, lyrical, & painfully intimate. Thank you to @hubcitypress.bsky.social for the gifted copy! Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/eSOt0 Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/iu2F9 #booksky

FOWD speaks to those consumed by love, offering a visceral reckoning with romance & the healing that comes from looking inward to find yourself among the wreckage. Thanks to NetGalley and Quilted Press for the ARC! Read my review: StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/mey8xppy Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdnemstt

The River Has Roots is a spellbinding novella steeped in folklore & transformation. Sisters Esther & Ysabel share a deep bond, even as their differences pull them apart. Thanks to NetGalley & Tordotcom for the ARC! Read my review: StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/HOcQP Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/25eyny3a

In Calling In, Ross interrogates call-outs & their punitive impulses. For those seeking transformative ways to address harm, this book is essential. Thanks to NetGalley & Simon and Schuster for the ARC! Read my review: Storygraph 🔗 shorturl.at/pgDYa Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/AnYyZ #Booksky

Scorched Earth is an excavation of self in the wake of loss, poems navigating the dissolution of a marriage & the aching process of unbecoming. Thank you to NetGalley & Atria for the eARC! This book releases tomorrow! Read my review: StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/Xrh3u Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/9Nbxt

well, it's official! my gender-affirming sterilization surgery is happening in 2 weeks (march 14— fingers crossed nothing comes up). i'm lucky to have insurance but it's not all covered:( venmo: haleystrass paypal: [email protected] please boost if you can! US donors get free stickers:)

ISSUE 42 DROPS MARCH 3 22 new books on migration, labor, legacy & the power of stories to challenge, heal & transform. This week’s lineup: Iranian exile, eerie open waters, fast-food alienation, student visa survival & Black womanhood’s deep imprints. Subscribe on Medium: medium.com/@diversishelf

BOOKS THAT SHOULD BE MOVIES Some books don’t just tell a story—they unfold like a film in your mind. These 16? They belong on screen, but only in the right hands. 💙📚 #Booksky #Booktok

so many of my problems could be solved by rich parents

Vera Blossom’s How to Fuck Like a Girl is a memoir that doesn’t ask for permission. It’s messy, sharp, and defiantly trans—an unflinching exploration of sex, gender, and survival that thrums with both pain and possibility. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/RpkH1 Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/jQfMs

Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :) Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)

Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski is a poetry collection meditating on the violences that shape gender—how femininity is sculpted by expectation, how desire is tangled with harm, how to live inside a body constantly objectified. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/Fd0Wb Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/cjdBi

Hey! I'm starting a #neurodivergent #spoonie #bookclub in collaboration with my bookish self @libraryoflanelle.bsky.social on #Bookstagram and #BookSky 💙📚 In March 2025 we're reading 'Autistic and Black' by @kalaomeiza.bsky.social Join us over on StoryGraph! app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/2...

✨ ISSUE 41 IS LIVE! ✨ This week, Diversishelf brings you 9 new stories of resilience, resistance, and reclamation. These new and upcoming releases refuse erasure—centering Black & queer authors, anti-colonial narratives, and radical imagination. 💙📚 #DiverseBooks #BookSky #Booktok

BUILDING RESISTANCE READING CHALLENGE 97 books. 11 categories. A toolkit for resistance. As the weeks stretch on under this US administration, one thing is certain: we cannot face this alone. We need knowledge, solidarity, & collective action. That’s why I created this reading challenge. #Booksky

Since January of this year, US government websites have been removing any reference to trans and nonbinary identities---including the website for the Stonewall National Monument. Yes, that Stonewall. But we’re still here, and we’re not going anywhere.

"Right-wing nationalism is bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine and not on a boat." - @harshawalia.bsky.social in her book Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Like a Hammer gathers poems that unmask the pains of the U.S. prison-industrial complex, demanding we confront the grip it has on both bodies and minds. Releasing from @haymarketbooks.org on Mar. 4th! Ty for the eARC <3 Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 bit.ly/3X8mwtN Goodreads 🔗 rb.gy/mpuxl2

Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa is a poignant & darkly humorous exploration of disability, autonomy, & the complexities of living in a body that doesn’t conform to “normal” standards. This book will be released on Mar. 18. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 bit.ly/3DfzfnP Goodreads 🔗 bit.ly/3Qvv8Hl #booksky

I Who Have Never Known Men is an unsettling novel, with a quiet, eerie inevitability. Harpman presents a stark, enigmatic dystopia that can't help but linger in your mind. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/lokla Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/nC8FI

Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem is a collection that aches & pulses, alive with longing, grief, defiance. It is a book that moves like water, demanding that readers sit with the contradictions of survival & desire. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/WpCGS Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/FqZKg

I just finished reading Like a Hammer edited by Diana Marie Delgado! This was a powerful collection of poems confronting the lasting traumas of the American prison system. It will be published in March by @haymarketbooks.org! Preorder a copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/like... #Booksky #Poetry

Hi, I'm Lanelle 👋 I'm an #AuDHD #Spoonie. I'm currently setting up #UntypicalityReclaimed. I provide neuro-affirming coaching for fellow #neurodivergent and #disabled folk! I've just launched a bookclub and will be offering a variety of resources. I'm excited to connect with value-aligned peeps!

I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how:

Last night, I finished reading Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, trans. by Polly Barton! It's about a disabled woman with congenital myopathy seeking autonomy. It will be released in March by Hogarth. You can preorder a copy here! bookshop.org/p/books/hunc... #Booksky #Readersky #Bookstagram #Booktok

I told y’all my goal was for my publishing imprint to be self-sustaining by the anniversary of me partnering with Bindery. Well, it’s crunch time! The anniversary is in just seven days and we have over 200 subscribers to go. Help me get there. Subscribe for just $5 or $12 right now! Thank you!!!

i’ve got a new essay post up on instagram about estrangement, family abolition, and breaking up with my mom. take a look? 💌 www.instagram.com/share/BAQwFf...

ISSUE 41 DROPS FEB 24 11 new release books that deserve a place on our shelves. Next week’s lineup: queer Black survival, Jamaican legacy, desire & power, & a subversive thriller. Interested in these titles? Subscribe on Medium to have Issue 41 delivered to your inbox: medium.com/@diversishelf

I just finished reading Confessions by Catherine Airey! Review forthcoming, but in the meantime, you can read more about the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/conf... #booksky #readingupdate #irishliterature #literaryfiction

I just finished reading How to Fuck Like a Girl by @cuteflesh.bsky.social! Review to follow in the coming days, but in the meantime, read more about Vera’s book here: bookshop.org/p/books/how-... #booksky #readingupdate

Join the collective tomorrow @ 9:30am EST for some more Animal Crossing: New Horizons! ʚ♡⃛ɞ ʚïɞ༄.° twitch.tv/dbrivera55 ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

Waiting for the Long Night Moon is a quiet meditation on grief, resilience, & the bond between Indigenous people & the land. Thank you to NetGalley & Catapult for the eARC! This book was published on Feb. 11th. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/GFhb2 Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/rWZAl #booksky

Cover reveal: TERMINAL SURREAL! With a devoted naturalist’s eye, @marthasilano.bsky.social unflinchingly confronts the reality of mortality. From the early symptoms of ALS to full-blown illness, these #poems touch on the medical, metaphysical, & cosmological, connecting readers to the larger world.

AILEY'S ABOLITION SYLLABUS curious about abolition but unsure where to start? longing for a better world but feeling powerless to build it? these books are for you!