Monday, January 17, 2022

2022 Reading

JANUARY
1. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
2. A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett

FEBRUARY
3. Memorial by Bryan Washington
4. Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith
5. Revenge Body by Caleb Luna
6. Mutiny by Phillip B. Williams 

MARCH
7. The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Possibilities for LGBTQ+ Health by Zena Sharman 
8. After the Rain by John Jennings, illustrated by David Brame 
9. You Only Live Twice by Mike Hoolboom and Chase Joynt 
10. Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love, and Fashion edited by Virgie Tovar 
11. Heavy Vinyl: Riot on the Radio by Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva 

APRIL 
12. Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards 
13. Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke 
14. These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of a Friendship Across Race and Class by Wendy Sanford
15. Dispatch by Cameron Awkward-Rich 
16. Gentrifier by Anne Elizabeth Moore
17. Nevada by Imogen Binnie 

MAY 
18. Abolition For the People: The Movement for a Future Without Policing and Prisons edited by Colin Kaepernick 
19. & more black by t'ai freedom ford 
20. 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell 
21. Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin, illustrated by Nina Vakueva 
22. Blue in Green by Chiyuma Elliott 
23. Ruin by Cara Hoffman
24. Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
25. Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton 

JUNE
26. And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community by Ricky Tucker
27. Villainy by Andrea Abi-Karam 
28. Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
29. High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez 
30. Worldly Things by Michael Kleber-Diggs 

JULY
31. The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett 
32. This City by Claudia Castro Luna 
33. Pebble Swing by Isabella Wang
34. I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi by Gina Siciliano 
35. OutWrite: The Speeches that Shaped LGBTQ Literary Culture edited by Julie R. Enszner and Elena Gross 
36. Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz 
37. The Curious Thing by Sandra Lim
38. Gordo by Jaime Cortez 
39. dayliGht by Roya Marsh
40. No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull 
41. Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton 

AUGUST 
42. Lot by Bryan Washington 
43. Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
44. Border Vista by Anni Liu

SEPTEMBER
45. Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha 
46. The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
47. Nobody by Alice Oswald
48. The Art of Drag by Jake Hall, illustrated by Helen Li, Jasjyot Singh Hans, and Sofie Birkin
49. Winter's Light: Reflections of a Yankee Queer by John Preston 
50. Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things In Between by Joseph Osmundson
51. Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome 
52. Butch Heroes by Ria Brodell 

OCTOBER
53. Looking for Lorraine: The Radical and Radiant Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry 
54. It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery 
55. How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
56. Sk8 Dad Summer: Ramps, Rebellion, and Raising a Kid by Brett Hamill 
57. Manywhere by Morgan Thomas 
58. Good Talk by Mira Jacob 
59. Operatic by Kyo Maclear, illustrated by Byron Eggenschwiler 
60. Heavy by Kiese Laymon 
61. Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party edited by Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis 

NOVEMBER
62. Different Kinds of Fruit by Kyle Lukoff 
63. Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
64. So Tall It Ends in Heaven by Jayme Ringleb 
65. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 

DECEMBER
66. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James 
67. The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability by Kristen Hogan
68. The Women Could Fly by Megan Giddings 
69. The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández 
70. The Stonewall Reader edited by Jason Baumann and the New York Public Library
71. Night Shift by Eileen Gunn 
72. The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore


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