Reading recommended by UM Libraries.
To support the UM community in learning and reflection, UM Libraries recommends the following reading for Pride Month.
UM Libraries is committed to building collections that recognize new perspectives and diverse ways of knowing. For this year’s Pride Month, explore these works of 2SLGBTQIA+ authors and activists where personal and political intersect.
UM Librarians Corser du Pont and Janice Winkler selected all resources below. All resources are accessible for free with a library account.
The South by Tash Aw is a radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer—about family, desire, and what we inherit.
The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Winner of the 2022 Giller Prize and finalist for the 2023 Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction.
Funeral Diva by Pamela Sneed is a poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.
Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry after Stonewall is a groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt that brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Since that galvanizing moment, poetry has served as both a vehicle for queer liberation and a witness to its sometimes fragile, sometimes ebullient flourishing, across the world.
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to world inside.” Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay.”
Love After the End, edited by Joshua Whitehead is a bold and breathtaking anthology of queer Indigenous speculative fiction.
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Tom is a highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true, coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Striking off on her own, she finds her true family in a group of larger-than-life trans femmes who make their home in a mysterious pleasure district known only as the Street of Miracles.
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