Show Notes
What is the queerest thing you did this year? Listen to the festive special to find out how queer our guests and listeners made 2025!
References: Liz Breslin How To Read podcast https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/elaine-auyoung-one-sided-relationships/ Queer Forms and Pronouns: Gender Nonconformity in Anglophone Literature (OUP, March 2026) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/queer-forms-and-pronouns-9780198974116?q=lena%20mattheis&lang=en&cc=gb Susan Stryker Louise Siddons’ Good Pictures Are A Strong Weapon https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910730/good-pictures-are-a-strong-weapon/ Category is Books (Glasgow) Lighthouse Books (Edinburgh) The Bookish Type (Leeds) Kit Heyam Royal Vauxhall Tavern All Of Us Strangers Nick Cherryman European Gay Ski Week Oliver Slate-Green’s The Way Blood Travels Leah Davidson Listenqueer.co.uk Out and Wild Leilah King Coast is Queer Jack Gieseking Our Dyke Histories podcast Julie Enszer Lesbian Lives Sinister Wisdom The Essential Poems of Pat Parker (The 87 Press) Caro de Robertis’ The Palace of Eros Joelle Taylor’s Maryville Alison Bechdel’s Spent Allan Johnson https://thisisallan.medium.com/elf-and-safety-2b061323dbc1 Flora Johnson’s Christopher Popinkins
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