Spokane Public Library: Pride Month | Book List Recommended By Community Members

Spokane WA

28 May, 2021

11:35 AM

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Press release from Spokane Public Library: May 27, 2021 For Pride Month, we reached out to the LGBTQ community and asked them to share some of their favorite books or books they felt were important for others to read. This is an #OwnVoices list in more than one way, it is selected by #OwnVoices and the books themselves are written by #OwnVoices. #OwnVoices is a term coined by the writer Corinne Duyvis, and refers to an author from a marginalized or under-represented group writing about their own experiences/from their own perspective, rather than someone from an outside perspective writing as a character from an underrepresented group. The library would like to thank everyone who participated by giving us suggestions.   Recommended by Mandy Manning, 2018 National Teacher of the Year The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali by Sabina Khan Book Fingersmith  by Sarah Waters Book   Recommended by Andrew Whitver, Spokane Arts Commissioner and arts advocate How We Fight for Our Lives by Saeed Jones Book The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon by Tom Spanbauer Book The Hours by Michael Cunningham Book On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Book | eBook | Audiobook A Boy's Own Story by Edmund White ON ORDER Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin ON ORDER On the Move: A Life by Oliver Sachs Book | eBook | Audiobook The Passion by  Jeanette Winterson Book Hunger by Roxanne Gay Book | eBook | Audiobook   Recommended by Dr. Mimi Marinucci, Professor, Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies and Philosophy, Eastern Washington University  Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy ON ORDER   Recommended by Dr. Jessi Willis, Senior Lecturer, Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies, Eastern Washington University  A Cup of Water Under My Bed: A Memoir by Daisy Hernandez ON ORDER Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs ON ORDER We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib ON ORDER   Recommended by Dr. Judy Rohrer, Director and Assistant Professor, Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies  Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare ON ORDER Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer ON ORDER Men in Place: Trans Masculinity, Race and Sexuality in America by Miriam Abelson ON ORDER   Recommended by Lisa Logan, Manager, Women's and Gender Education Center, Eastern Washington University Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (graphic novel) by Benjamin Alire Saenz Book | eBook | Audiobook | CD Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (graphic memoir) by Alison Bechdel Book Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker Book Branch Info → Branch Info → Branch Info → Branch Info → Branch Info → Branch Info → Branch Info → Branch Info → Branch Info → Branch Info → Press "OK" to close this dialog and continue. You can try again or press "Cancel" to close this dialog.   This press release was produced by Spokane Public Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.