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L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Back on the No AI Starter Pack trend, this time with the devils! @elizabethmay.bsky.social and I released the Seven Devils duology in the midst of lockdown, which kept us from promoting the series as well as we would have liked. (1/2)

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Idk how many more fucking times I can say “promoting and buying HP related stuff is directly affecting trans peoples lives” to get it through people’s FUCKING SKULLS YOU CANT SEPARATE THE ART FROM THE ARTIST WHEN THEY ARE ACTIVELY DOING HARM.

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I love using libby, especially since I recently figured out I could get an Edmonton Public Library card as a U of Alberta student, it’s been a GAME CHANGER for reading on my kobo! I’m reading Blood Like Magic rn (LOVING it), and hoping to start Babel this weekend!

Screenshot of my libby loan page with Babel by RF Kuang audiobook and These Burning Stars by Bethany Jacobs audiobook

Screenshot of my libby loan page with Blood Like Magic and Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury ebooks

Screenshot of my libby loan page with The First Sister by Linden A. Lewis ebook and The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez audiobook

Screenshot of my libby loan page with Valid by Chris Bergeron ebook

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Wrote a bit of a thing on instagram, where I assume I'm not preaching to the choir AS much as here, but I want to reiterate the point that the founder of TDoV Rachel Crocker made a few years ago, that Trans Visibility can & should focus on visible allyship. Not 1 or 2 posts a year. Real allyship

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My March reading has been very good. I love it. So many new favourites, plus reread some old favourites that hold up (Catching Fire, Mockingjay, Truth Telling, The Wicked Bargain, The Companion)! Read quite a few for my Trans Reading Challenge! Hope to finish 2/3 of my CRs too! #transbooks #books

Storygraph March 2025 ratings collage; Catching Fire and Mockingjay (5), Oathbound (5), Emberclaw (5), Truth Telling (5), Tempest Take Me Home (5), The Revenge of Captain Vassia (5), The Wicked Bargain (5), By Way of Sorrow (3.5), Survivor’s Guilt (4), Sunrise on the Reaping (5), The Woods All Black (4), Paper Dolls (5), The Gentleman’s Gentleman (4), Strange Bedfellows (4), Muted Vol 1 (4), This Delicious Death (4), Miss Major Speaks (5), The Flowered Blade (5), The Companion (4), The Perks of Loving a Wallflower (4).

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you’re posting trans books recommendations and I don’t see a single trans women or trans femme character written by a trans women or trans femme author, side eye 👀 absolute side eye

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I don’t have any current reads right now and it feels so weird! I finished The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo earlier and haven’t picked my next read yet 🤣 I have no idea what to read next

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

While I'm really glad reading challenges help cis readers find new books by trans & nonbinary authors, I hope those same readers take these challenges as an opportunity to interrogate their own biases.

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I added some books to my trans spreadsheet today, and we’re up to 1,280 books! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Trans Lead Books/Trans Authors

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Update: I finished both of them today and OH MY GOD 5 STARS EACH!!! 😭🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 @cknightwrites.bsky.social @cozywitch.bsky.social yall are both amazing and writing gay and trans pirates 🏴‍☠️❤️

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Looking for a year long trans reading challenge? This is my second year hosting the Trans Reading Challenge! If you use Storygraph, I made a challenge on there. If you just want the prompts, head over to my IG or take a look with this link! app.thestorygraph.com/reading_chal...

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Trans Reading Challenge Year 2 (2025)

Year 2 is here! Last year, I created this challenge because I didn’t find a reading challenge ...

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Happy pub day to my first historical romance, A GENTLEMAN'S GENTLEMAN Buy links: tjalexander.com#books4 And a little🧵 about it...

Me, a white nonbinary person with glasses, holding up the book.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The vibes of my current reads are: - Trans 🏳️‍⚧️ - Queer af 🏳️‍🌈 - Queer pirates 🏴‍☠️ And I love it 😤🙌🏼 might even reread The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa ps, thanks @cknightwrites.bsky.social for an ARC! I’m loving it 🙌🏼

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I’ve read Legendborn 3 times now, and it’s the type of book that gets better with EVERY read. I’ll be honest, I hated Sel the 1st time. The 2nd time, he started to grow on me, and the 3rd? I love him. But golden retriever Nick has been my fav since my 1st read through 🙂‍↕️

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haley | IG: @spoonie.reads @spooniereads.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

well, 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:)

image of Haley (a white person with glasses and a blue mask) holding up a colorful "read queer all year" sticker. text says: "if you want to contribute, my venmo is haleystrass" "or donate via my ko-fi in bio!" "if you donate $10 or more, i'll mail you a sticker! (US only)" "lol just got the official cost of my sterilization surgery,,, $2365. surgery is in 2 weeks!"

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Can I go on TikTok for one night at the end of each month and not see the typical “how do people read 20+ books a month? That’s impossible” videos/comments like fuckkkkkkkk off

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It’s my birthday so have 24 (or more…) recommendations from me! If you take any recommendations from me, make it these ✨ (1/2) #books #booksky #diversebooks #transbooks

blue gradient background (light blue to a darker but still light blue) with a white border around the edges. The title is in black block letters and says “24 Books for my 24th Birthday”, with my username readwithrhys underneath in smaller black block letters.

blue gradient background (light blue to a darker but still light blue) with a white border around the edges. Books included: Seven Devils by L.R. Lam and Elizabeth May, Dragonfall by L.R. Lam, The Falconer by Elizabeth May (2025 edition), Legendborn by Tracy Deonn.

blue gradient background (light blue to a darker but still light blue) with a white border around the edges. Books included: Jade War by Fonda Lee, The Witch King by H.E. Edgmon, Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas, Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore.

blue gradient background (light blue to a darker but still light blue) with a white border around the edges. Books included: The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi, A River of Golden Bones by A.K. Mulford, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White, Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright.

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I just stayed up wayyyyy past my bedtime to finish this book…SO worth it. The Broposal by Sonora Reyes is phenomenal and you should read it

Screenshot from Storygraph of The Broposal by Sonora Reyes. I rated it 4 stars

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

March 2025 Trans Book Releases 🏳️‍⚧️ #booksky #books #transbooks

Blue and pink gradient background. Title in black block letters “March 2025 Trans Book Releases” with my username readwithrhys underneath. To the right of the title is a cowboy hat in the trans flag colours

Blue and pink gradient background. Books included: a song for you and I (March 4th; middle grade fantasy, nonbinary MC), Strange Bedfellows (March 4th; YA fantasy graphic novel, trans boy MC), They Bloom at Night (March 4th; YA horror, nonbinary MC), Wood Working (March 4th; litfic, trans woman MCs), Glitch Girl! (March 4th; disabled trans girl MC (ADHD)), Emberclaw (March 4th; Adult fantasy, genderfluid MC)

Blue and pink gradient background. Books: A Single Brutal Fate (March 11th; YA fantasy, nonbinary MC (supposed pub date)), Paper Dolls (March 11th; memoir), A Gentleman’s Gentleman (March 11th; historical romance, trans man MC), Stag Dance (March 11th; litfic/short stories, trans femme MCs), Homegrown Magic (March 11th; Fantasy romance, nonbinary MC), We Are Villains (March 25th; YA mystery, (disabled?) aroace trans boy MC)

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I’m going to make a thread of my trans book releases IG posts here, starting with January/February!

yellow and pink gradient background with a thin white border around the edges. In black block letters, the title in the middle says “January/February 2025 Trans Book Releases”, and to the left is the word “love” in the trans flag colours (light blue, light pink and white). Underneath the title is my username readwithrhys in black.

yellow and pink gradient background with a thin white border around the edges. “January” books: Hammajang Luck by Makana Yamamoto (adult sci-fi; BIPOC a gender MC), Trans & Disabled (essays), Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan (adult litfic; BIPOC trans woman MC), Single Player by Tara Tai (adult romance; BIPOC nonbinary MC), The Dark One by Taylor Hubbard (adult erotica; trans man MC, trans man LI, T4T), The In-Between Bookstore by Edward Underhill (adult magical realism; trans man MC)

yellow and pink gradient background with a thin white border around the edges. “January” books: This Feast of a Life by Cynthia So (YA contemporary; BIPOC nonbinary MC), Ring by Michelle Lerner (adult litfic; nonbinary MC), Don’t Let Cha Cha Die by Carrie Hetherwell (adult sci-fi; nonbinary MC), The Quick and the Dead by Emma Hinds (historical fiction; nonbinary MC), Sweet Girls and Bluebirds by Caroline Sophia Hamel (YA contemporary: trans woman MC)

yellow and pink gradient background with a thin white border around the edges. “February” books: Murder in the Dressing Room by Holly Stars (adult mystery; nonbinary MC), A World Worth Saving by Kyla Lukoff (middle grade fantasy; trans boy MC), A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States (nonfiction), Name Her Holy by Aubrey Ennis (adult fantasy; trans lesbian MC), Love in Exile by Shon Faye (memoir), Orion and the Cloudkillers by Harri D. Gordon (YA contemporary; trans boy MC), Ikarys and the Damned by Taylor Hubbard (adult fantasy; trans masc MC), Cleavage by Jennifer Finney Boylan (memoir)

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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Aromantic spicy fantasy book rec of the day. A tired witch takes a solo holiday to a cottage and summons an agender, aromantic sex demon to help her… relax. The two have a lot of fun… relaxing. This is so great! #booksky #queerbooksky #aromanticawarenessweek

In the Care of Magic by Robin Jo Margaret. A white curvy woman standing in front of a kneeling agender demon with grey skin, in the woods

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Natalie Naudus Moira Quirk Vico Ortiz André Santana Avi Roque I love them all

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Rereading The Hunger Games series in today’s society is truly a different experience than when I first read them in 2012, and even when I reread them in 2020 and 2023

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I live in Alberta, and if someone wants one of these books that are currently taken out, interlibrary loans exist. Having 10 books out won’t cause someone to not read one of these books. Also, why does it matter? You don’t know how fast I read; I could finish these in a week if I really wanted to.

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I have so many books on my physical tbr and what do I do? Go to the library and get 5 more books (bottom 5) 🧍🏼 HEHE WHOOPS. I love the 2 local libraries near me 😌

Stack of library books. In order from top to bottom: the knowing by tayla talaga, immortal dark by tigest girma, the t in lgbt by Jamie Raines, false hearts by lr lam, bellies by Nicola dinan, the art thieves by Andrea l Rogers, the brightness between us by Eliot schrefer, dear Medusa by Olivia a Cole, metal from heaven by August clarke, and black leopard red wolf by Marlon James

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Further, The Jasmine Throne is 540 pages. The Oleander Sword is 480 pages. I HATE THIS

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Why do publishers change font size in the middle of a fucking series? The Jasmine Throne has normal sized font for a tall paperback, and the audiobook is 19 hours 42 minutes. The Oleander Sword, however, has smaller text (and it’s very obvious smaller), audio is 19 hours 7 minutes. STOP THISSSSS

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I finished and YEAAAA I’m in love with the world. extremely tempted to pick up The Oleander Sword now

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

God yes I need to read that one!!

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

That’s one I’ve been meaning to read since I bought it!!

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This picture is like a month old now (gotten some new ones since then) but this is like 45% of all the books I own, and most (not all) of these books feature LGBTQ main characters. I’ve read quite a few, but if you see a favourite of yours, do comment so I can bump it up if I haven’t read it LOL

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’m on page 172 of The Jasmine Throne and once again, WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO READ THIS?? My physical tbr is definitely full of books that when I read them, I’ll say “WHY TF DIDNT I READ IT SOONER”

Book cover of The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

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Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

We have three weeks of Black History Month left. Go give these incredible people a follow!!! #blackhistorymonth

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Thank you for including me omggg

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I started reading this earlier, didn’t really know what it’s about but it got me hookedddddd

Book cover of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m finally reading To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose, and I’m enjoying it so far omg. Why did I wait so longggggg

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

MY BELOVEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I started my reread of The Final Strife for my Trans-cendent Tales book club February pick, and oh my GOD I love this world and this trilogy 😭🩵

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

This book should be required reading for every Canadian. I’m rereading it for a class so I can write a book review on it through the lens of an educator, and I’m reminded of how this peels back the layers of history in Canada that isn’t usually taught in k-12.

The book cover of Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

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Rhys @readwithrhys.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I finished this like 10 minutes ago and oh my god new favourite 😭😭🩵🩵

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Katee Robert @kateerobert.com · 01/02/2025

*stares directly into camera, specifically at all the people who told me I was being dramatic when I said they would attempt this*

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