jenniferlovesbooks | #standwithtranskids BookTag @jenniferlovesbooks | Uploaded June 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Original by: @pdxleo
I tag: @AnaMoShoshin
@renepierre9074
The Questions
1. Tag some fabulous friends who also may want to do this tag and #standwithtranskids
2. Tell us about some books on your TBR pile featuring a trans/non-binary character or nonfiction about trans/non-binary stuff
3. Recommend a favourite book/show/movie featuring a trans/non-binary character
4. Everyone has their own journey and no one demographic is a monolith. Recommend a book with a journey (however you define that)
5. None of us knows everything – even about our own identities – especially since we’re not a monolith and each have our own journey – what is a book that taught you something either about yourself or the world around you?
6. When things are hard in the world or in our lives, sometimes we there are things we can do to help centre and refocus ourselves, to bring joy, to keep us going, to keep living, resisting, being our authentically amazing selves. What are things you do to centre yourself or find joy?
7. What’s your walk-on music – or your feel at home in your body music?
8. Finding mentors, people of wisdom, or heroes can be another way to help us navigate life. Who are some of your mentors? Can you share something they taught you or inspired you to learn more about?
9. Who are some out trans/non-binary booktubers, instagrammers, authors, actors, etc who you’d like to shoutout?
10. What are some organizations you’d like to shout out for supporting trans kids/trans folks?
Other channels mentioned:
@bookinwithdebra
@WillowTalksBooks
Mermaids website:
mermaidsuk.org.uk
Books mentioned (fiction featuring a trans/non binary character, NB some but not all are by trans authors):
Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender
The Seep, Chana Porter
The Deep, Rivers Solomon
Pet, Akwaeke Emezi
Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi
Detransition Baby, Torrey Peters
The Passing Playbook, Isaac Fitzsimmons
This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
An Ordinary Wonder, Buki Papillon
Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon
The House On Half Moon Street, Alex Reeve
Non-fiction mentioned:
The Gender Games, Juno Dawson
What The T, Juno Dawson
The Transgender Issue, Shon Faye
Trans Britain, ed Christine Burns
Trans Like Me, CN Lester
Other books mentioned:
Loveless, Alice Oseman
My Name Is Why, Lemn Sissay
Careless, Kirsty Capes
Original by: @pdxleo
I tag: @AnaMoShoshin
@renepierre9074
The Questions
1. Tag some fabulous friends who also may want to do this tag and #standwithtranskids
2. Tell us about some books on your TBR pile featuring a trans/non-binary character or nonfiction about trans/non-binary stuff
3. Recommend a favourite book/show/movie featuring a trans/non-binary character
4. Everyone has their own journey and no one demographic is a monolith. Recommend a book with a journey (however you define that)
5. None of us knows everything – even about our own identities – especially since we’re not a monolith and each have our own journey – what is a book that taught you something either about yourself or the world around you?
6. When things are hard in the world or in our lives, sometimes we there are things we can do to help centre and refocus ourselves, to bring joy, to keep us going, to keep living, resisting, being our authentically amazing selves. What are things you do to centre yourself or find joy?
7. What’s your walk-on music – or your feel at home in your body music?
8. Finding mentors, people of wisdom, or heroes can be another way to help us navigate life. Who are some of your mentors? Can you share something they taught you or inspired you to learn more about?
9. Who are some out trans/non-binary booktubers, instagrammers, authors, actors, etc who you’d like to shoutout?
10. What are some organizations you’d like to shout out for supporting trans kids/trans folks?
Other channels mentioned:
@bookinwithdebra
@WillowTalksBooks
Mermaids website:
mermaidsuk.org.uk
Books mentioned (fiction featuring a trans/non binary character, NB some but not all are by trans authors):
Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender
The Seep, Chana Porter
The Deep, Rivers Solomon
Pet, Akwaeke Emezi
Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
The Death of Vivek Oji, Akwaeke Emezi
Detransition Baby, Torrey Peters
The Passing Playbook, Isaac Fitzsimmons
This Is How It Always Is, Laurie Frankel
An Ordinary Wonder, Buki Papillon
Sorrowland, Rivers Solomon
The House On Half Moon Street, Alex Reeve
Non-fiction mentioned:
The Gender Games, Juno Dawson
What The T, Juno Dawson
The Transgender Issue, Shon Faye
Trans Britain, ed Christine Burns
Trans Like Me, CN Lester
Other books mentioned:
Loveless, Alice Oseman
My Name Is Why, Lemn Sissay
Careless, Kirsty Capes
