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Trans Librarian
@translibrarian.bsky.social
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Retired librarian. Can be found at https://translibrarian.com building the trans literature database and occasionally blogging.
My links: https://campsite.bio/translibrarian
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A picture book celebrating Marsha P. Johnson. #transbooks

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A colorful drawing of Marsha P. Johnson takes up most of the cover. Toward the bottom there is an older person and a child on a park bench, and on the bottom right are six people smiling and celebrating.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A YA trans rom com about two boys who meet in a motel lobby on their way to different locations. #transbooks

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Cover of In Case You Read This by Edward Underhill. It features a two story motel with a person at the railing on each floor. The titled is styled like a neon sign for the motel.
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): a poetry collection from a queer and trans Palestinian #transbooks

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Black text on white background: SAGE - YAFFA Author of Blood Orange. Sage has leaves attached to the ends of the letters.
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): a "personal, and moving oral history of a generation of trans and gender nonconforming elders of color who tell their own stories of breathtaking courage, cultural innovations, and acts of resistance." #transbooks

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Multicolor text on blue background with stars: So Many Stars an oral history of trans, nonbinary, genderqueer and two-spirit people of color by Caro de Robertis.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A trans high schooler returns to football to help her old team win. #transbooks

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One of the Boys by Victoria Zeller. A teenage girl in a football uniform leaning against a goal post while a football team plays behind her.
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "An incendiary anti-capitalist response to climate change rooted in hope for the future" by trans author L.E. Fox #transbooks

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This Book is a Knife: Radical Working-class Strategies in the Age of Climate Change by L.E. Fox cover image with title text above parting waves.
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Trans history in graphic novel form. #transbooks

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Trans History from Ancient Times to the Present Day by Alex L. Combs and Andrew Eakett. Cover with comic panels of various time periods.
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.” #transbooks

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The Dad Rock that Made me a Woman by Niko Stratis. Cover image is text only.
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "A pulpy, mytho-poetic dispatch from an anarchist jurisdiction” #transbooks

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Local Woman by Jzl Jmz. Photo of a black woman's hand holding a cigarette with warning boxes stating "Warning: Local Woman causes deep breaths, heart palpitations, cold sweats & may complicate sensuality" and "Authorities warn Local Woman contains estrogen and melanin"
November 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): An historical novel about a trans man surviving Nazi Germany. #transbooks

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The Lilac People by Milo Todd cover features a man in old fashioned clothes walking away through a field.
November 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "AI meets American Girl Dolls in this quirky novel about a group of preteen androids" by nonbinary author Steph Cherrywell #transbooks

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Cover image for Unboxing Libby, drawing of three dolls in boxes, Roxanne, Libby and Wendy. Libby is in the center, wearing jeans and a t-shirt and holding their hand up.
November 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "A trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence " #transbooks

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Cover image of Worthy of the Event by Vivian Blaxell. Yellow text on black backgroun with a photo of what looks like the sun with solar storms.
November 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Jamie Hood "interrogates the archetype of the rape survivor, who must perform penitence long after living through the unthinkable," #transbooks

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Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood. Cover image has a dark background with a classical style sculpture of a woman holding her wings and kneeling.
November 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "A debut poetry collection drawing on horror-movie tropes to examine the body--both its traumas and its possibilities." #transbooks

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Scream / Queen by CD Eskilson. Cover image has a photo of a frightened woman, her hands palm out before, with a green tint to the photo like it is night vision or she is underwater.
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Some philosophy for a Thursday morning. #transbooks

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Beyond Personhood: an essay in Trans Philosophy by Talia Mae Bettcher. Cover image, No illustration. Light text on blue background.
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "novel in verse about a trans girl with ADHD who plays a computer game to process the isolation of middle school" #transbooks

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Glitch Girl by Rainie Oet. Cover illustration with colorful video game graphics surrounding a young person.
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A novel and three stories by Torrey Peters. #transbooks

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Stag Dance by Torrey Peters cover image with two deer, one with a pink bow on its horn, looking sideways with its tongue sticking out.
October 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Dylan Mulvaney's autobiography. #transbooks

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Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer cover with Blonde, white woman lying on a bed with a typewriter before her.
October 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A trans masc regency romance. #transbooks

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Cover image for A Gentleman's Gentleman by TJ Alexander, with a man dressed in regency attire shown from the chest up to his lips.
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): An unlikely friendship between a closeted trans teacher in a small town and the only out trans student in the school. #transbooks

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Cover image for Woodworking by Emily St. James. A haphazard pile of student chairs and desks in the back of a high school classroom.
October 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): When Sah's sister disappears, she is thrust into a world of magic and shapeshifters. #transbooks

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Cover image for The Night Menagerie, Book 1 of the Pact of the Veil, by Kathryne Lentes with the head of a white tiger and a blue smoky background.
October 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): A short story collection that " looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle" #transbooks

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Cover image. Three gummies (blue, orange and clear) on a pink background. Crawl: Stories by Max Delsohn.
October 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Jude Doyle reuniting "feminist and trans politics through a common belief: that all people deserve to have the final say about who they are" #transbooks

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Cover image. The title in a fanciful font on a pink and blue background. DILF: Did I leave feminism by Jude Ellison S. Doyle.
October 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): "a dark fantasy romance with sizzling spice, vampiric blood magic, and cutthroat politics." Book 2 of The Age of Blood. #transbooks

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Illustration of a menacing looking person with gold ornate clothes and wings on a dark background. Lord of Ruin by K.M. Enright.
October 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Trans / Nonbinary Book of the Day (TBOTD): Favian grapples with his feelings for Prince Leonardo and the oppressive system in which they live. #transbooks

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An illustration of a servant and prince, gazing at one another across a green field, with a castle in the background. A Gaze So Longing by River Flynn.
October 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM