Happy National Coming Out Day! To celebrate the LGBTQ community, we’ve rounded up a list of books to increase your consumption of LGBTQ authors, artists, creators and stories.
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Growing up undocumented in the United States, Areli Morales didn t come across many children s books that addressed or helped make sense of her experience. So she wrote her own. Areli Is a Dreamer: A True Story, illustrated by Luisa Uribe (Random House Studio, out June 8), depicts the author s early childhood in Puebla, Mexico, where she was born, and in New York City, where she grew up.
Morales, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient – a program put in place by former president Barack Obama – shares her story to equip young readers with the necessary language to unpack and understand what people like her have gone through and to help readers going through a similar experience feel seen.
Slate is selling audiobooks that you can listen to through your podcast app
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Slate is now selling audiobooks that can be listened to in the podcasting app of listeners’ choice.
Slate is getting into the audiobooks business. The online magazine and podcast subscription seller is launching its own audiobook store today in partnership with multiple publishing companies. The store will list and sell popular titles but with the added benefit of making the audio accessible through listeners’ preferred podcast app instead of a separate audiobook-only platform. This is likely its biggest sell for listeners, although Slate will compete on price, too. Listeners also will buy these books a la carte, meaning they don’t have to subscribe to an ongoing membership as they may through Audible, the biggest name in audiobooks.
Shocked and Discredited
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Something That May Shock and Discredit You (Atria Books) by Daniel M. Lavery is an essay collection in conversation with high and low culture, ranging from Sir Gawain to the Golden Girls, as the author works to understand and to validate his trans identity. Building on his long-held assertion that Captain Kirk is a lesbian, Lavery reframes other aspects of pop culture as a means to understanding his transition, such as: the stages of working on an impression of the TV detective Columbo, who, thanks to testosterone, has a newfound vocal range, to reimaging â90s Cosmo headlines for confused future trans men. Lavery also examines Biblical stories to help understand his transition as viewed through his Christian faith. The one I found most powerful is Laveryâs multiple reframings of Jacob wrestling with an angelâGenesis as an analogy for transition. With each essay, I looked forward to seeing how Lavery was going to remould a pi