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Guide: Queer African Reads
Let’s start with the obvious: Neither “African literature” nor “queer literature” are stable, precise, unproblematic categories. Here I collect books by African and African‑diasporic authors. The books are either written by openly queer writers and/or and feature queerness in some prominent way. As of now, there is a regional bias in this list…
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30 New Publications in 2025 I Am Excited For
Over the past years my preview lists have become more and more extensive and putting together these kind of posts incredibly time consuming (so I never even did my list for the second half of 2024). So this year I decided to rein it in a little. There will be only one list…
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Best 2024 Albums and EPs
2024 wasn’t a great year on many metrics, but it did bring a lot of fantastic music. Of course, I did not solely listen to music released this year (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess was still on heavy rotation). I found a lot of joy though not just jumping from…
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50 (+ more) Books 2024 (January – June)
This is my incredibly extensive list of books I am excited about or highly interested in which will be published in the first half of 2024. As always, the publications date might be a bit all over the place because I use dates from all places where I can access the books from.…
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Guide: Books on Disability/ Chronic Illnesses/ Neurodiversity/ etc.
This is a living list with works which deal with disability and/ or chronical illness and/or Deafness and/or neurodiversity and/or mental illness and more. It’s about disability rights and movements, about ableism, about survival and solidarity, about pain and grief, and about joy and care. A lot of the descriptions here are taken…
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50+ Books 2023 (July-Dec)
The first half of 2023 is already over and while there are many unvertainities always, there is one thing we can be sure about: There will be incredible books published between July and December 2023. And below you find some of the books which are on my radar. Fiction J. Vanessa Lyon: Lush…
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50 (+ more) Books 2023 (January – June)
One week into the new year and I am happy to know that despite everything there is one thing we can be sure about in 2023: Some fantastic books will be published. Like every year I have my little calender in which I write down whenever I come across a title a find…
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50 Highly Anticipated Books 2022 (July-December)
We are already deep into the second half of 2022. So it’s time for another fifty books I am excited for this year. The book descriptions are mostly taken directly from the respecitive publishers’ websites. For monthly updates on new releases, follow me on Instagram where I share new publications in my stories (and save…
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50 Highly Anticipated Books 2022 (January-June)
No matter what 2022 will bring, there will be art, there will be books. And these are fifty of the books I am seeing forward to in the first half of the year! For monthly updates on new releases, follow me on Instagram where I share new publications in my stories (and save…
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July, August, September 2021: 15 (+) Most-Anticipated Books
As I am based in Germany and can access books published in Germany, UK, and the US equally via my local bookshop these release dates might be a bit all over the place depending on where you are based. July Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah: The Sex Lives of African Women Synopsis: “The Sex Lives…
