Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 16/02/2026is it strange that i’ve never owned a glossier product? 000
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026I swear, one day, i’m actually gonna remember to use these thing I have so many funny thoughts you guys would love 010
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I think kesha and penelope garcia would be bffs tbh 010
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I keep forgetting this darn thing exists. you guys are missing out on my silly goose thoughts!! I will try to remember some to share with you 🪿🫶 000
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 05/06/2025it should be illegal for straight people to read anything other than queer books during pride month 221
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 15/05/2025@mcrane12.bsky.social's new book is a gut punch of queer yearning—gritty, tender, & unrelenting. It aches with first love, grief, & the brutal beauty of being known. Ty @thedialpress.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/y8yspwzs Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/muyfb9yhtinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of A Sharp Endless Need5/5: “To us, basketball was a historical record of all the ways a body can move with and for another. What could be better than the strange and perverse pleasure of being known?” Thank you to NetGall... 141
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Sarah Aziza’s The Hollow Half is a lyric of hunger and inheritance—queer, Arab, and unflinchingly honest. It excavates anorexia, exile, and erasure with aching clarity. Ty @catapultbooks.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/4hxaausz Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/4cexf7pjtinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of The Hollow Half5/5: Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book will be published in the US on April 22, 2025 by Catapult. “I am no longer bewildered by my collapse but by all we have survived.... 040
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Sam Sax’s Yr Dead burns slow and bright—a queer, Jewish elegy told in searing fragments. Political, intimate, and unflinching. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/wjfkndrt Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/28d4z5bm #bookskytinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of Yr Dead5/5: Full Rating: 4.5 stars rounded up “All I want to do is leave a little more room for what good people are left to do their feral blooming.” Sam Sax’s Yr Dead is a book that lingers, both in its ... 060
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Ling Ling Huang’s Natural Beauty is a lyrical horror about the cost of perfection—grotesque, hypnotic, and razor-sharp in its critique of beauty, capitalism, and assimilation. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/48knuuyv Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/ycxcw6xe #bookskytinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of Natural Beauty5/5: Full Rating: 4.5 stars rounded up Ling Ling Huang’s Natural Beauty is a hypnotic descent into the grotesque allure of the wellness industry, where the pursuit of perfection veers into horror. S... 050
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Mad World rips the facade off the mental health industry—bold, abolitionist, & full of Mad pride. A searing call to politicize Madness, deny carceral psychiatry, & imagine collective care. Ty @plutopress.bsky.social! Read my review ~ StoryGraph: tinyurl.com/mpsry3fw Goodreads: tinyurl.com/mrvxzvd3tinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of Mad World5/5: “After all, what is the utility of 'sanity' or 'rationality, in a world in which ‘sanity' means the death of oppressed people and the planet, and 'rationality' means the logic of the market? In t... 010
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Green Fuse Burning is eco-horror at its best—grief-soaked, lichen-laced, & defiantly Mi’kmaw. A visceral meditation on loss, longing, & the ache to belong in a world that refuses to remember you. Ty @stelliform.press! Read my review ~ StoryGraph: tinyurl.com/2s4j36dr Goodreads: tinyurl.com/2s44th2etinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of Green Fuse Burning5/5: Grief, like lichen, clings to the body long after the first wound has scabbed over. In Green Fuse Burning, Tiffany Morris carves open the quiet violence of survival — the gnawing hunger for conne... 0106
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025House of Beth is a queer gothic stunner—darkly funny, haunted, & heartbreakingly honest about harm OCD, girlhood, & the ghosts that cling to us. Ty @simonandschuster.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/5as97tc6 Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdenkyj6 #bookskytinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of House of Beth5/5: Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book will be published in the US by Simon and Schuster on July 15, 2025. “There were normal brains out there, and I didn’t have one, a... 042
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Power to Yield & Other Stories is tender eco-speculation at its most unruly—Bogi Takács crafts alien worlds where minds bloom differently, bodies shift fluidly, & connection is a sacred act of resistance. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/mu86fhtk Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/d3ttznfz #bookskytinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of Power to Yield and Other Stories5/5: Tender, intricate, and alive with possibility, Power to Yield and Other Stories by Bogi Takács is a luminous meditation on cognition, communication, and the radical multiplicities of being. Throu... 030
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025And Then the Gray Heaven is tender and splintered—grief unraveled through queer love, dissociation, and devotion. RE Katz writes mourning like a mood: lush, elusive, and full of ache. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/4n3xeecu Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/2exwz9w3tinyurl.comAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of And Then The Gray Heaven4/5: Some books don’t so much unfold as unravel—like a tangled thread tugged gently through grief, memory, and love until what’s left is soft, frayed, and quietly shimmering. That’s how And Then the G... 010
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025You or Someone You Love is abortion care as love language—lyrical, radical, & rooted in reverence. Matthews writes with a doula’s grace, showing that abortion is sacred, communal, & life-affirming. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/2fubyjtk Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/592um6ta #bookskytinyurl.com 041
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025All This Safety Is Killing Us is abolitionist medicine in action—a searing, visionary collection where the authors expose how policing, prisons, & borders infect healthcare. Ty @natlanticbooks.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review: StoryGraph: tinyurl.com/snjtmnt5 Goodreads: tinyurl.com/bde9ujrwtinyurl.com 010
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025In Case of Emergency is a blistering, blasphemous scream of a novel. Via Shadi’s drug-fueled drift across a collapsing Tehran, it cracks open gender, class, & survival with electric prose. Ty, @feministpress.bsky.social! Read my review: StoryGraph: shorturl.at/yMqGJ Goodreads: tinyurl.com/yms4mxyeshorturl.at 010
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Immaculate Conception is a scalpel disguised as a novel, cutting deep into art, obsession, & technology. The novel follows two art school BFFs turned techno-rivals. Ty @duttonbooks.bsky.social for the eARC! Read my review: StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/95NVD Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/Yv6OU #bookskyshorturl.at 040
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Plum by Andy Anderegg is a razor-sharp portrait of surviving familial abuse. Told in second-person, it’s haunting, lyrical, & painfully intimate. Thank you to @hubcitypress.bsky.social for the gifted copy! Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/eSOt0 Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/iu2F9 #bookskyshorturl.at 050
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 03/03/2025FOWD speaks to those consumed by love, offering a visceral reckoning with romance & the healing that comes from looking inward to find yourself among the wreckage. Thanks to NetGalley and Quilted Press for the ARC! Read my review: StoryGraph 🔗 tinyurl.com/mey8xppy Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/bdnemstttinyurl.comReview by bisexualbookshelf - Fragments of Wasted Devotion“I curl into myself and I touch the feral creature of my heart and ask ‘is there anything left... 010
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 03/03/2025The River Has Roots is a spellbinding novella steeped in folklore & transformation. Sisters Esther & Ysabel share a deep bond, even as their differences pull them apart. Thanks to NetGalley & Tordotcom for the ARC! Read my review: StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/HOcQP Goodreads 🔗 tinyurl.com/25eyny3ashorturl.atAiley | Bisexual Bookshelf's review of The River Has Roots5/5: Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book will be released in the US on March 4th, 2025 by Tordotcom. Full Rating: 4.75 stars rounded up Amal El-Mohtar’s The River Has R... 120
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In Calling In, Ross interrogates call-outs & their punitive impulses. For those seeking transformative ways to address harm, this book is essential. Thanks to NetGalley & Simon and Schuster for the ARC! Read my review: Storygraph 🔗 shorturl.at/pgDYa Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/AnYyZ #Bookskyshorturl.atReview by bisexualbookshelf - Calling In"We can skip the viral shaming and reputational warfare. We can skip the ideological litmus te... 010
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 03/03/2025Scorched Earth is an excavation of self in the wake of loss, poems navigating the dissolution of a marriage & the aching process of unbecoming. Thank you to NetGalley & Atria for the eARC! This book releases tomorrow! Read my review: StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/Xrh3u Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/9Nbxtshorturl.atReview by bisexualbookshelf - Scorched Earth“I think it all takes courage: falling in love, staying in love, leaving love that no longer s... 010
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙haley | IG: @spoonie.reads @spooniereads.bsky.social · 27/02/2025well, it's official! my gender-affirming sterilization surgery is happening in 2 weeks (march 14— fingers crossed nothing comes up). i'm lucky to have insurance but it's not all covered:( venmo: haleystrass paypal: haleylana18@gmail.com please boost if you can! US donors get free stickers:) 25928
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙Diversishelf @diversishelf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025ISSUE 42 DROPS MARCH 3 22 new books on migration, labor, legacy & the power of stories to challenge, heal & transform. This week’s lineup: Iranian exile, eerie open waters, fast-food alienation, student visa survival & Black womanhood’s deep imprints. Subscribe on Medium: medium.com/@diversishelf 031
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 27/02/2025BOOKS THAT SHOULD BE MOVIES Some books don’t just tell a story—they unfold like a film in your mind. These 16? They belong on screen, but only in the right hands. 💙📚 #Booksky #Booktok 110
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025so many of my problems could be solved by rich parents 141
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Vera Blossom’s How to Fuck Like a Girl is a memoir that doesn’t ask for permission. It’s messy, sharp, and defiantly trans—an unflinching exploration of sex, gender, and survival that thrums with both pain and possibility. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/RpkH1 Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/jQfMsapp.thestorygraph.comReview by bisexualbookshelf - How to Fuck Like a GirlVera Blossom’s How to Fuck Like a Girl is a memoir that doesn’t ask for permission. It’s messy... 131
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :) Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.) 7422164
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski is a poetry collection meditating on the violences that shape gender—how femininity is sculpted by expectation, how desire is tangled with harm, how to live inside a body constantly objectified. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/Fd0Wb Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/cjdBishorturl.atReview by bisexualbookshelf - Girl WorkTo read Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski is to step into a landscape of jagged edges and unraveling... 141
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙Diversishelf @diversishelf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025✨ ISSUE 41 IS LIVE! ✨ This week, Diversishelf brings you 9 new stories of resilience, resistance, and reclamation. These new and upcoming releases refuse erasure—centering Black & queer authors, anti-colonial narratives, and radical imagination. 💙📚 #DiverseBooks #BookSky #Booktok 141
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025BUILDING RESISTANCE READING CHALLENGE 97 books. 11 categories. A toolkit for resistance. As the weeks stretch on under this US administration, one thing is certain: we cannot face this alone. We need knowledge, solidarity, & collective action. That’s why I created this reading challenge. #Booksky 160
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙Trans Rights Readathon @trreadathon.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Since January of this year, US government websites have been removing any reference to trans and nonbinary identities---including the website for the Stonewall National Monument. Yes, that Stonewall. But we’re still here, and we’re not going anywhere. 25327
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 24/02/2025"Right-wing nationalism is bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine and not on a boat." - @harshawalia.bsky.social in her book Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism 12811
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Like a Hammer gathers poems that unmask the pains of the U.S. prison-industrial complex, demanding we confront the grip it has on both bodies and minds. Releasing from @haymarketbooks.org on Mar. 4th! Ty for the eARC <3 Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 bit.ly/3X8mwtN Goodreads 🔗 rb.gy/mpuxl2bit.lyReview by bisexualbookshelf - Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass IncarcerationThank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book will be released in the US on... 040
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa is a poignant & darkly humorous exploration of disability, autonomy, & the complexities of living in a body that doesn’t conform to “normal” standards. This book will be released on Mar. 18. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 bit.ly/3DfzfnP Goodreads 🔗 bit.ly/3Qvv8Hl #bookskybit.lyReview by bisexualbookshelf - HunchbackThank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book will be released in the US on... 020
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 23/02/2025I Who Have Never Known Men is an unsettling novel, with a quiet, eerie inevitability. Harpman presents a stark, enigmatic dystopia that can't help but linger in your mind. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/lokla Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/nC8FIshorturl.atReview by bisexualbookshelf - I Who Have Never Known MenThere is something deeply unsettling about I Who Have Never Known Men, a novel that unfolds wi... 130
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem is a collection that aches & pulses, alive with longing, grief, defiance. It is a book that moves like water, demanding that readers sit with the contradictions of survival & desire. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/WpCGS Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/FqZKgapp.thestorygraph.comReview by bisexualbookshelf - Postcolonial Love PoemNatalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem is a collection that aches and pulses, alive with longin... 020
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I just finished reading Like a Hammer edited by Diana Marie Delgado! This was a powerful collection of poems confronting the lasting traumas of the American prison system. It will be published in March by @haymarketbooks.org! Preorder a copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/like... #Booksky #Poetrybookshop.orgLike a Hammer: Poets on Mass IncarcerationPoets on Mass Incarceration 1151
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙Lanelle | Untypicality Reclaimed (she/they) @untypicality.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Hi, I'm Lanelle 👋 I'm an #AuDHD #Spoonie. I'm currently setting up #UntypicalityReclaimed. I provide neuro-affirming coaching for fellow #neurodivergent and #disabled folk! I've just launched a bookclub and will be offering a variety of resources. I'm excited to connect with value-aligned peeps! 262
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I've seen an old misunderstanding going around; that libraries don't benefit authors. But they do! A lot! Here's how: 402950770
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Last night, I finished reading Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, trans. by Polly Barton! It's about a disabled woman with congenital myopathy seeking autonomy. It will be released in March by Hogarth. You can preorder a copy here! bookshop.org/p/books/hunc... #Booksky #Readersky #Bookstagram #Booktokbookshop.orgHunchback: A NovelA Novel 120
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 21/02/2025I told y’all my goal was for my publishing imprint to be self-sustaining by the anniversary of me partnering with Bindery. Well, it’s crunch time! The anniversary is in just seven days and we have over 200 subscribers to go. Help me get there. Subscribe for just $5 or $12 right now! Thank you!!!leftunreadbooks.binderybooks.comBindery BooksDismantling systems of oppression one book at a time. 04122
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025i’ve got a new essay post up on instagram about estrangement, family abolition, and breaking up with my mom. take a look? 💌 www.instagram.com/share/BAQwFf... 010
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙Diversishelf @diversishelf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025ISSUE 41 DROPS FEB 24 11 new release books that deserve a place on our shelves. Next week’s lineup: queer Black survival, Jamaican legacy, desire & power, & a subversive thriller. Interested in these titles? Subscribe on Medium to have Issue 41 delivered to your inbox: medium.com/@diversishelf 121
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I just finished reading Confessions by Catherine Airey! Review forthcoming, but in the meantime, you can read more about the book here: bookshop.org/p/books/conf... #booksky #readingupdate #irishliterature #literaryfictionbookshop.orgConfessions: A NovelA Novel 111
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I just finished reading How to Fuck Like a Girl by @cuteflesh.bsky.social! Review to follow in the coming days, but in the meantime, read more about Vera’s book here: bookshop.org/p/books/how-... #booksky #readingupdatebookshop.orgHow to Fuck Like a Girl: EssaysEssays 140
Reposted by Ailey 🩷💜💙Daira | Cozy DB 🧸 @dbrivera55.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Join the collective tomorrow @ 9:30am EST for some more Animal Crossing: New Horizons! ʚ♡⃛ɞ ʚïɞ༄.° twitch.tv/dbrivera55 ⸜(。˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ 042
Ailey 🩷💜💙 @bisexualbookshelf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Waiting for the Long Night Moon is a quiet meditation on grief, resilience, & the bond between Indigenous people & the land. Thank you to NetGalley & Catapult for the eARC! This book was published on Feb. 11th. Read my review! StoryGraph 🔗 shorturl.at/GFhb2 Goodreads 🔗 shorturl.at/rWZAl #bookskyshorturl.atReview by bisexualbookshelf - Waiting for the Long Night Moon: StoriesThank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC! This book was published on February 11t... 020