Pride month sets the theme for this summer term’s June discussion session on June 15, 2023:
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
&
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Thomas’s 2020 YA novel follows a latinx trans boy engaging with the Mexican death culture and features actual magic. Kobabe’s 2019 graphic novel shows the author’s own journey to their non-binary gender identity and has been at the heart of the ongoing U.S. censorship debate. We will discuss the texts with regards to their forms of story-telling and in context of the LGBTQ+ struggles.
© Lion Forge Comics 2019, taken from Maia Kobabe’s website
If these two queer texts seem not quite enough to you, check out LGBTQ Reads, “a site dedicated to promoting curated LGBTQIAP+ literature for all ages”, and the book lists of the American Library Association’s Rainbow Book Month, “a […] celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, genderqueer, queer, intersex, agender, and asexual community.”
