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04/02/11--23:00: A Transgender Fairy Tale (chan 1567663)

Many of the stories we were told as children are built on a foundation of traditional gender roles.  Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White (among others) all need to be rescued by strong, sword-toting young men.  Although they are less well-known, however, there are transgender fairy tales out there.  A perfect example of this is More >


04/25/11--23:00: WTF? Sex Secrets (chan 1567663)

Our friends from the WTFSexFacts Twitter channel got an eBook out that contains more than 1000 sex secrets by people of all ages. You can grab a copy here for £2.50. Go & find the secret mentioning milkboys ;) Have an example: Female: “When I was in high-school, the school geek got beaten up and More >


06/10/11--23:00: Lockdown High (chan 1567663)

The Guardian‘s John Harris reviews Annette Fuentes’s Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse, an investigative book on how "zero tolerance" policies have produced high-schools that "reflect a society that has become fixated on crime, security and violence." Harris points out that the insanity isn’t a mere American phenomenon, and has been enthusiastically embraced More >


08/05/11--23:00: The Empress Sword (chan 1567663)

With a kingdom to save and a dragon to slay, not to mention the loss of a dear friend and the first stirrings of a childhood crush, transitioning into a female is literally the least important problem on Crown Prince Aster’s mind. See, there’s this dragon attacking Caledon, and the only way to defeat it More >


09/22/11--23:00: Cult of Boys (chan 1567663)

With her scrapbook Cult of Boys fashion photographer Toyin Ibidapo created a visiual memorial for the (slightly older) androgynous sons of the fading emo decade. You can’t always trust your gaydar. Opening this book might let you think of the numerous gay photographers with their affection for teens. Not this time though. Cult of Boys More >


10/01/11--23:00: Too Queer to Read (chan 1567663)

Banned Book Week is wrapping up, and you can bet your bottom dollar that queer titles are tops among the small-minded bigots looking to control access to literature in American schools.. “Every year, the [American Library Association] and other liberal groups use this trumped-up event to intimidate and basically silence concerned parents… the truth is, More >


10/15/11--23:00: The Center of the World (chan 1567663)

When I was about 14 I carried a book with me everywhere for months because I just couldn’t let the protagonist go. It must have been the first time that I really fell in love with a book. Welcome to The Center of the World… A coming of age story set in a remote mountain More >


10/24/11--23:00: Daddy’s new Friend (chan 1567663)

Simple things are easy to teach to kids. The question is… how do we teach ignorant adults? (To make this easier to understand: The German word “Freund” means both “friend” and “boyfriend”) Frank’s moustache is how you know he’s dad’s extra special friend ;)


11/09/11--23:00: Shallow Tourist (chan 1567663)

The queer establishment disrupters over at the berlin-based publishing house Entartetes Leben are in the process of blessing the world with their newest baby Shallow Tourist, a sublime and sexy trip to Eastern & Central Europe, as documented by its secretive author Moot on 80 pages in full colour. The book is printed in 750 More >


01/03/12--23:00: Annabel (chan 1567663)

"Boy or girl?" It’s the one question people feel safe asking a new mother, since it can hardly cause offence. But what if the answer isn’t straightforward? Even today, in our supposedly broad-minded age, you’d feel a bombshell had been dropped if the proud parent were to reply simply: "Both." In Annabel, an intersex baby More >