Episode 18 - Bisexual Bookworms

Bi Books Baby!! This week I’m joined by Emily Metcalfe as part of Leeds LGBT+ Virtual Literature Festival. We’re talking bisexual representation, “bury your gays”, and unfortunately… JK Rowling. Be my friend on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/111813300-kit-skailes?shelf=lgbtq-recommendations LGBT Literature Festival: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL17puqlNuzKC1yGA8Td6xA?view_as=subscriber Website: https://www.leedslgbtbooks.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LGBTLitFest Twitter: https://twitter.com/LGBTlitfest Email: leedslgbtbookclub@gmail.com Donations: https://www.paypal.me/LGBTBooks Follow the pod on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/ Music: PremiumWave Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow Content warnings: They both die in the end: death Girl Woman Other: transphobia, biphobia The Colour Purple: mentions of abuse/sexual assault Harry Potter: Anti Semitism, JK’s transphobia (no details), Snape being a creep/stalker Death of the Author: mentions of Woody Allen & Tarantino (no details) The Bi-ble: chronic illness and sex In the Dream house: emotional abuse, biphobia, intimate partner violence, survivors of abuse, gaslighting An Absolutely Remarkable Thing: biphobia, bi-erasure Tarot: Mental health struggles Bi agenda: bi-erasure, biphobia, bi tropes, “bury your gays” (two bi women are murdered in a book series), transphobia, queer coded villains, homophobia, food, birth, trans pregnancy Get all your queer books @ https://thebookishtype.co.uk/ Hays Code Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsO4fZYHQic&feature=share Books Mentioned The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya The Colour Purple by Alice Walker They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo Artful by Ali Smith The Bi-ble Vol 1 & 2 edited by Ellen Desmond and Lauren Nickodemus In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado Difficult Women by Roxane Gay An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green Bury the Lede by Gaby Dunn The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez Bump by Matthew Metzger Freshwater & Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 100 Must Read Bi Books https://bookriot.com/100-must-read-bisexual-books/?fbclid=IwAR2m16__6D_ISVpGLujIEk8Qegpwa7GmPjfHtJ0Jz6gQtY8Mjp1bJbBVuHE Bi non-fiction https://www.autostraddle.com/bisexual-nonfiction-394712/ 80 best Bi & lesbian books https://www.autostraddle.com/80-of-the-best-queer-lesbian-and-bisexual-books-of-the-decade/ Bi Books The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney Eating Chinese Food Naked, by Mei Ng America Is Not the Heart by Elaine Castillo Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch Bad Dyke by Allison Moon Out of the Woods by Luke Turner Autoboyography by Christina Lauren Orlando by Virginia Woolf Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor Like Water by Rebecca Podos Adaptation by Malinda Lo Some of Us Did Not Die by June Jordan My Education by Susan Choi Another Country by James Baldwin Abandon Me by Melissa Febos Vera Kelly Series by Rosalie Knecht Anthologies Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World edited by Robyn Ochs and Sarah Rawley Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way edited by Ron Jackson Suresha and Pete Chvany Rec*Og*Nize: The Voices of Bisexual Men edited by Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams Smitten (poetry) YA https://bookstr.com/list/10-incredible-ya-novels-with-bisexual-protagonists/ Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston Leah on the Off Beat by Becky Albertalli The Trails of Apollo Series Boyfriends with Girlfriends by Alex Sanchez Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde Brightsiders by Jen Wilde