Girls of paper and fire by natasha / neverlandvicki Tipping the velvet by sarah / onceuponabookcase Sage & calliope from geekerella by ashley / / frmedens To introduce some of you lovely readers to some more diverse reads The ones that I’ve read, and hopefully it’ll be a great opportunity Recommended to me, as well as listing some of the books sitting on my Today I’m going to be listing off all the books Twitter, and I asked people to recommend me their favourite booksįeaturing an LGBT+ romance between two women, as well as theirįavourite LGBT+ female authors, and any number of diverse reads that
I can never reiterate enough how important I think it is to keep reading LGBT+ lit, but to never place yourself in a box and allow yourself to fall into habits of hyper focusing on the white, cisgendered, male aspects of the LGBT+ community when there are so many other genders, sexualities, and people coming from varying cultural and social backgrounds to be represented.įirst and foremost, I did a little digging, and asking around on And, as well loved as the Simon Spiers’, Elio Perlmans’, Alec Lightwoods’ and Loras Tyrells’ of the world are, I think we need to step away from merely focusing on white boys being our only, or at the very least most celebrated, form of LGBT+ rep. It’s really great setting challenges like this and branching out and reading things that you wouldn’t necessarily prioritise, but I also wanted to do this as a general rule, regardless of month, as I think it’s so incredibly important for LGBT+ stories to be given more attention.
The aim of the game, basically, was to help myself branch out a little and read more WLW reads, both for the theme of the month, and as a way to contribute to some of my reading resolutions that I set for the year! I managed to get through three LGBT+ books, bringing my WLW reads this year up to four out of nine so far. Hey everyone! So, as some of you may already know, last month I took part in F/F February.
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