Jennifer Crispin || Dancing Star Press

I LOVE (the previous version of) LOCAS SO MUCH!

No, seriously. Why am I like this?

two massive stacks of books on a wooden deck: stack one: Persona by Aoife Josie Clements A Shore Thing by Joanna Lowell Model Home by Rivers Solomon Wound From the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse Females by Andrea Long Chu Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao Lsbn by Emma Jayne Trans/Rad/Fem by Talia Bhatt And Then the Gray Heaven by RE Katz The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya Time is the Thing a Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann So What If I'm a Puta by Amara Moira Bad Houses by John Elizabeth Stintzi Brighter Than Scale, Swifter Than Flame by Neon Yang Welcome to Dorley Hall by Alyson Greaves Fierce Femmes & Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics Sterling Karat Gold by Isabel Waidner Mega Milk by Megan Milks Blackwater by Jeanette Arroyo The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes Hot Girls with Balls by Benedict Nguyen A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton Us by Sara Soler Stone Fruit by Lee Lai stack two: Valerin the Fair by Rien Gray dd's Umbrella by Jungeun Hwang A Lady for All Seasons by TJ Alexander This Book is Full of Filth by Rosalarian Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus The Goth House Experiment by SJ Sindu The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar Orders of Service by Willie Lee Kinard III The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon The Sunforge by Sascha Stronach All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein Transanything by Ever Jones Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco by K. Iver Life as a Unicorn by Amrou Al-Kadhi Amateur by Thomas Page McBee The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Femmedom Gangbang Erotica by Esmerelda Quick Gospels for the Tongue-Tied by Qetsi'ah Joachim-Baggott Pig by Sam Sax There Are Trans People Here by H. Melt Real Sugar is Hard to Find by Sim Kern Kisses for Jet by Joris Bas Backer Frighten the Horses by Oliver Radclyffe Woodworking by Emily St. James Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi

#TransRightsReadathon booksmaxxing

At this point I am looking at the list of the rest of my holds and thinking — maybe could you not? 🫠

Babes, I have SO MANY library holds coming in for the #TransRightsReadathon right now.

IT IS AN ABSOLUTE DELIGHT.

YES. YES, I AM. (adoring)

I COMPLETELY LOST MY MIND OVER IT.

I WISH I COULD YELL ABOUT TRANS BOOKS ALL DAY, but alas, I do have other responsibilities.

100 Trans Books Greenie Loves The 2026 Trans Rights Readathon is almost upon us! Whether you are researching a towering TBR stack, dipping a toe into trans books, or...

I do want to say that my criteria for picking these books was to start from my 100 Trans Books I Love list and choose only books that had 0-1 responses so far, and I have A LOT OF FEELINGS about various books not included on this list.

(see the rest of the books ⬇️)

Representing small presses once again! With books from:
@atthisarts.com
@andotherstories.bsky.social
@stelliform.press
@neonhemlock.bsky.social
@tachyonpub.bsky.social

You should be following them all for more weird queer bullshit! (affectionate)

All of these books inspire very feral feelings in me, so I want you to appreciate how much text I had to delete to get each book description to fit into a single post, when I have written long threads raving about most of these. SHOW SOME RESPECT AND PUT ONE OR MORE OF THESE ON YOUR TBR RIGHT! NOW!

The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc — neon hemlock Publication date: September 10, 2024. An 8” x 5” novella. A cheese cave. A sun. A million problems. Millions Wayland was cutting the curds when she learned someone had thrown her cheese cave int...

The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc
BABES, GET IN, IT'S A CHEESE HEIST.

IT'S NOT JUST TRANSGENDER IT'S TRANSHUMAN. WITH CLONE-FUCKING & EARTH VS. SPACE STATIONS & TRAUMA & CONSPIRACIES & LISTEN, LET'S TALK ABOUT CHEEEEEEEEEEEESE. 🧀

These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Tachyon Publications “This fast-paced novella blends a pitch-perfect noir voice with all the excitement and grit of an action movie, but at its core, it is ultimately a tale of community, identity, and connection.” —Emma ...

These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein
A near-future climate fiction thriller that also unpacks disassociation as a coping mechanism for growing up with anti-trans parents. Clones & bioengineering companies & shadowy figures meeting under overpasses and what's a girl to do?

Queens of Noise by Leigh Harlen — neon hemlock Part of the 2020 Novella Series. An 8” x 5” novella. 88 pages. In Queens of Noise , Mixi fronts the Mangy Rats, a motley found family of queers, crust punks and werecoyotes. Mixi and their band kno...

Queens of Noise by Leigh Harlen
Shifters & magic & found family & the music scene & small venues & a Scooby Doo mystery & murderous chickens & gender feels & finding out who you are. High energy with a queer punk aesthetic.

Sordidez by E.G. Condé ⋆ Stelliform Press Learn about SORDIDEZ by E.G. Condé, an indigenous futurist science fiction novella set in Puerto Rico and the Yucatan named a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book.

Sordidez by E.G. Condé
Post climate-apocalypse Puerto Rico & Yucatán with trans man protagonist. War leads to war leads to revenge leads to war, but also Taino & Mayan culture & gardening & solar nets & reclaiming your heritage & magic & throwing off your colonial oppression once and for all.

Tentacle | And Other Stories An electric tale of apocalypse, sex and time travel from one of the Caribbean’s most extraordinary cultural figures.

Tentacle by Rita Indiana, translated by Achy Obejas
Sacred anemone, magical trans transformation, climate disaster, art history, time travel to save the ocean. Startling & mud-dragged & glistening & fraught & intellectual & visceral & AMAZING. (MIND THE CWs!!)

Pluralities by Avi Silver A slipstream-meets-space-adventure story honoring the journey into gender euphoria.

Pluralities by Avi Silver
From soul-crushing mall jobs to sparkly purple gender euphoria, with a narrative-crossing rogue prince fleeing his responsibilities with his sentient spaceship, this book is MAGIC AND MADE ME VOMIT JOY ACROSS SEVERAL TIMELINES.

under-loved trans rights readathon recs: novella edition under the titles are the cover images for six books. they are: Pluralities by Avi Silver Tentacle by Rita Indiana Sordidez by E.G. Condê Queens of Noise by Leigh Harlen These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart by Izzy Wasserstein The Transitive Properties of Cheese by Ann LeBlanc

Day two of my under-loved #TransRightsReadathon recommendations is OBVIOUSLY about small press novellas! Because what could be more satisfying during a readathon than a stack of novellas?

That said, R.B. Lemberg is bigender, Kama La Mackerel identifies as trans femme, Yaffa identifies as trans, Rachel Plummer uses they/them pronouns, and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch uses they/them pronouns.

When I say trans books I am using the definition put forth by the Trans Rights Readathon, which is books featuring trans characters and/or by an out trans author. It isn't always easy to confirm whether an author is trans and I definitely don't want to out anyone who isn't open.

Listen, I am once again begging authors posting their shiny book promo graphics to PLEASE include a buy link in the thread. Links aren't punished here! And I am but a ADHD squirrel who WILL get distracted if you make me open a search engine.

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀

My brain has been mostly offline for a few days except for the Fandom Market auction, but it is time to get back to banging pots and pans together about this book!

That book is absolutely unhinged in all the best ways!

Covers for Hornytown Chutzpah, Ex Partum, and Dream the Deep sit on an illustrated book shelf, text reads indie novella love: comedic, Jewish, fantasy noir; mama-centered sci-fi, deep-sea sci-fi

What do puppets in hell, carrots in your shit, and a giant cephalopod have to do with each other?

They're in human-crafted indie novellas about defying authority through community. And they're all on the way.

Read more at atthisarts.com! #BookSky #Indie #Books #Novella

15 is very solid! Which were your faves?

100 Trans Books Greenie Loves The 2026 Trans Rights Readathon is almost upon us! Whether you are researching a towering TBR stack, dipping a toe into trans books, or...

Oh, and I should mention, the list is here, should you want to take the quiz and change the data...

www.listchallenges.com/100-trans-bo...

Books in this list are from @benyehudapress.bsky.social
@metonymypress.bsky.social
Meraj Publishing
@theemmapress.bsky.social

So if you are still working on your Trans Rights Readathon TBR, add one (or more!) of these books to your stack! Support trans authors and small presses, AND find an over-looked gem not all of your friends have already read!