"I'm a GAMP, and it's not a writer's cramp that makes me wanna be amp about it—I'm a straight champ who don't need a Virgin Mary bigot or a lick-spigot vamp to question my mastodon feed, or my literary, noumenon handstamp."—Max R. J. Ovbi
My audience is probably too old to be the main target demographic of #JamesSomerton's videos but it's still worth checking out #hbomberguy's video detailing his shameless plagiarism:
Iowa Senate File 538- gender transition procedures related to minors strips providers of Medicaid funding from Sept 18 forward and doesn't allow Medicaid to be used by clients for gender affirming treatment. If a counselor has a transgender client, and has used the gender dysphoria code and many others (7 pages of ICD codes) then they will be retroactively stripped of funding. I am so angry for clients and for providers. As a clinician, I feel so mad that states are telling transgender youth in lower SES that they can't be who they truly are, and now they can't even talk to a counselor. I just can't. @socialwork@Email2TootBot#SocialWork#psych#psychology#iowa#lgbtqia#transgender#transgenderrights#counseling#counselor#therapist#therapy
Today's release: Aaron Frale's queer LitRPG fantasy: My Three-Year-Old is a Barbarian and Other Parenting Problems.
Necromantic rituals, murderous ogres, battle-scarred rangers: not a typical Saturday detention for unsuspecting teaching assistant, Petra, and her delinquent teen charges. The Beaverton High School Breakfast Club...
Another post about this cool book I'm currently reading: "The Sol Majestic" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Gotta love that name.
Have you ever wondered how a top-rated restaurant might function on a space station? Light years from any planet? Well, Ferrett Steinmetz thought about it and came up with:
-artificial gravity used to cook things using the heat generated by enormous planetary-scale pressures instead of direct heat
-stasis fields instead of fridges (duh) but also speeded-up time field used to sneak a week's worth of work into an hour
-an alien sourdough culture that MIGHT be sentient
All of this is an excellent backdrop for a story of a young boy finding (gay) love, seeking independence from his parents, and exploring questions of philosophy, truth, capitalism, and marketing. It's not #SolarPunk, but it has that homey vibe.
Great news that the radical feminist/queer journal 'Urania,' in circulation between 1916 and 1940, has now been digitised by LSE Library. Still, going to read the original copies earlier this year was a wonderful, if somewhat dizzying, research experience . . . 📚 😵
Not feeling well, so not really around, but today is Intersex Solidarity and Remembrance Day, and I have plenty of resources for this day that I'd like to briefly share! :intersex_flag:
(Responses will probably only happen later, but feel free to ask)
Linda reviews "Trueflame" by Vanessa Ricci-Thode, Fireborn book 2:
"I recommend Trueflame and would suggest reading book one first. This book is full of amazing characters, betrayals, secrets, and surprises - a war between water and fire. Wow."
Lucy Mason has a new FF fantasy mermaid romance out: The Endless Sea Between Us.
Five years ago, Faeryn Moss lost her family and home to a plague that swept her village. As the sole survivor, she was rumored to be a witch—a rumor she never denied because it was the truth...
Today is Intersex Awareness Day, so here is a reminder that I have a database of ALL the intersex ownvoices books I know of, easily accessible on my website.
Any genre, age range, language (though most of them are in English)
Today's release: Cameron Montague Taylor's queer gaslamp fantasy book Silverweaver:
When the hunter…
…becomes the haunted.
Second-rate ghosthunter Anya Iteri is the black sheep of a family of metalweavers—powerful mages who can forge iron, shape steel, and even bend blood. Down on her luck and struggling to pay rent...
Meet Alejandro... With the help of the ancestors, can he stop danger in its tracks?
The ebook of my witchy, queer, poly, Samhain/Dia de Los Muertos novel By Dark is either free or .99 through the end of October!
Enjoy!
By Dark: https://books2read.com/by-dark
Today's indie author review! Repairing Destiny" by Geneva Vand:
"A delightful story set in a fantasy kingdom. ... For adult readers the plot might seem flimsy, but I found myself wanting to read on and thoroughly enjoyed the experience."