Reposted by delphine67 (she/they)
Since 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.
![seven book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “september”.
[Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell; A Few Rules for Predicting the Future by Octavia E. Butler; Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi; Four Souls by Louise Erdrich; Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib; Revelatory by Daryl Gregory; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreicbc63nb4gzosovleofrzht26qan3gnonspaoft3aslkau2uoxrpa)
![sixteen book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “may”.
[The Skin and Its Girl by Sarah Cypher; The Galaxy, and the Ground Within by Becky Chambers; The Black Panthers Speak edited by Philip S. Foner; Moonlit Massacre by James Cooper; Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese; Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir by Lamya H.; In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado; Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D.; The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans; Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline; Until We Meet Again: The True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by Michael Korenblit & Kathleen Janger; Pet by Akwaeke Emezi; Bitter by Akwaeke Emezi; Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living; The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar; A Fortune for Your Disaster: Poems by Hanif Abdurraqib.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreichjyax3tlrzxl7k7cfyuw7k7dcearobriwbfsxpckwpcu3eikwfu)
![eleven book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “december”.
[Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur by Jeff Pearlman; We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle; An American Family: The Shakira and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah Holley; When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X Ramsey; She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya; Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State by Caleb Gayle; Freedom! The Story of the Black Panther Party by Jetta Grace Martin, Joshua Bloom, and Waldo E Martin Jr; Africa is not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin; What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad; Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia; The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreieetmsupcuxrwj5hzqxinzt44oln3pd5qy3qecrucxnfiy4shbyhi)
![seven book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “november”.
[The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini; Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman; Portalmania: Stories by Debbie Urbanski; Revolution in our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon; By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle; Light Years from Home by Mike Chen; The Village Beyond the Mist by Sachiko Kashiwaba.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreicukzmh5ktycadia6i5vrg2g3mgj7lv2wmopsc6ft3kuvsa3bmm74)
![six book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “october”.
[Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement edited by Ejeris Dixon & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas; Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by belle hooks; Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky; The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich; The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory; Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreiesdlmw7go4ilf36deq4rv4huw2xh47vgdrnnk2xchqjkwu2uat6y)
![five book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “august”.
[Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley Ford; None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza; The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clementine Wamariya & Elizabeth Weil; The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich; The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreieoi4ffmq4g4lvjxaqquaw4jyvsfpemt3be3ekwgigfibendnv32u)
![seven book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “july”. five yellow stars appear under the cover of Forest of Night: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha.
[The Only Sound is the Wind: Stories by Pascha Sotolongo; Words for my Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur by Dean Van Nguyen; Forest of Noise: Poems by Mosab Abu Toha; Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist; Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire; The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice is Justice for All by Shon Faye; Animal Farm by George Orwell.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreidgsprbyhk53mgulgs34n57nvuenjblfsgcpbvuac5anmzouo57ou)
![five book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “june”.
[Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi; What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo; Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki; White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad; Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien & Eman Abdelhadi.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreihrq5vnjgmpeziftqx7ta4kgjnbh5j7f2bctizcfsipelhsetcnju)
![six book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “april”.
[Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam; The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole; How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva; The Anti-Ableist Manifesto by Tiffany Yu; The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa; The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreial6diuc3x26cuybyjepqt43peg6ttoqi57zhgst2kw3vnyaywx7m)
![six book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “march”. five yellow stars appear under the cover of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad.
[They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays by Hanif Abdurraqib; Consumed by Aja Barber; Gender Euphoria edited by Laura Kate Dale; One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad; A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith; Pretty: A Memoir by K.B. Brookins.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreihd6alco5nlonkhnj6tk3runwqtitm52zqannsvagapeudnz6v66a)
![five book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “february”. five yellow stars appear under the cover of Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor.
[Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar; There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib; Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor; If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance edited by Angela Y Davis; Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E Joseph.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreihs6yzqhjeyx5ui4bgvrwrrqlszqjivgce6jbvhd46v3s2oc6gjqe)
![eight book covers on purple-tinted background of a bookshelf with text “january”.
[No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Miriame Kaba & Andrea J. Ritchie; The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation by Dennis McAuliffe Jr.; The Wild Robot Protects by Peter Brown; Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha; Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers; Its Not About the Burqua edited by Miriam Khan; Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón; There There by Tommy Orange.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ltjs4gmdg3qiqhrb4ab476rc/bafkreieukew2hkimbdf7ftilioc66xhjyeny5czlx3ub3trd3gjhjycuee)