Most Read This Week In Queer

Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that are not heterosexual or cisgender. Originally meaning "strange" or "peculiar", queer came to be deployed pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late-19th century. Beginning in the late-1980s, queer scholars and activists began to reclaim the word to establish community and assert a politicized identity distinct from the gay political identity. Queer identitites may be adopted by those who reject traditional gender identities and seek a broader, less conformist, and deliberately ambiguous alternati ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Queer"

Platform Decay (The Murderbot Diaries, #8)

Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)

The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan, #1)

気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 1 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 1]

The Sun and the Star (The Nico di Angelo Adventures, #1)

A Drop of Corruption (Shadow of the Leviathan, #2)

Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)

Frozen by Stardust (Beasts of the Briar, #5)

What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)

The Golden Enclaves (The Scholomance, #3)

What Feasts at Night (Sworn Soldier, #2)

Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 2 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 2]

Warrior Princess Assassin (Braided Fate, #1)

Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much

Among the Burning Flowers (The Roots of Chaos, #0.2)

気になってる人が男じゃなかった Vol. 3 [Ki ni Natteru Hito ga Otoko Janakatta, Vol. 3]

Can't Spell Treason Without Tea (Tomes & Tea, #1)

A Long and Speaking Silence (The Singing Hills Cycle, #7)

Clara & the Devil, Volume 1 (Clara & the Devil, #1)

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Quotes Tagged “Queer”

“ Harrow said, with some difficulty: "I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it." "Yes you can, it's just less great and less hot," said Gideon." "Fuck you, Nav— ...more ”
― Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth

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“ Girls love each other like animals. There is something ferocious and unself-conscious about it. We don't guard ourselves like we do with boys. No one trains us to shield our hearts from each other. With girls, it's total vulnerability from the beginning. Our skin is bare and soft. We love with claws and teeth and the blood is just proof of how much. It's feral. And it's relentless. ...more ”
― Leah Raeder, Black Iris

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