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nonbinaryglimmer:

y’all: *slams people for using microlabels*

also y’all: no you cant just say youre “queer” when we ask your gender/orientation, thats a slur not an identity.

what y’all really mean: if youre not lesbian, gay, bi, or trans, or do not identify solely as such, we dont want you in this community.

“Queer”, before being reclaimed by the LGBT community, was indeed as slur. Typically, queer means abnormal or strange, which was exactly why it was used to describe LGBT people; it was used to other us and label us as abnormal. It doesn’t seem very unreasonable that many people, myself included, don’t want to be referred to as queer/have it used as an umbrella term for the community when it carries those connotations.

The idea that our rejection of microlabels is comparable to our aversion of being called a slur and your exaggeration of LGBT people as reactionary and exclusive is, quite frankly, blatantly homophobic and transphobic. It’s disgusting that people like you who say this about the LGBT community at large would want to be a part of it.

Please, log off this website, learn some LGBT history and think before you speak.

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talksfox:

sapphic-playlists:

genderqueer artists

Adult Mom – The stage name of Stephanie Knipe, a genderqueer bedroom pop/lo-fi artist. My favorite album is “Momentary lapse of happily.” Listen to “Survival.” They/Them

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Angel Haze – Also known as ROES, Angel Haze is an agender pansexual hiphop artist/rapper. She uses She/He/They pronouns but says “I sound like four people when I get written about as they. It drives me crazy.” Listen to “White Lilies/White lies.”

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Babeo Baggins – Aspen is a genderfluid nonbinary country artist & (possibly former?) rapper with Barf Troop. They are also going by BB now. They/Them. Listen to “Thunderbird” & “Mice or Men.”

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CJ Run – Nonbinary hiphop/alternative rap artist. Listen to “Tangerine” and “Spaghetti.” They/Them pronouns or none at all. They are bi/pan and often rap about women.

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imbi the girl – Femme Nonbinary R&B/Soul artist. They are an outspoken body positive & self love advocate and these ideas bleed into their music. They just released their debut EP “For Me.” They/Them.

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King Princess – genderqueer lesbian pop artist & gal pals with fellow nb lesbian Amandla Stenberg. Her single “1950” blew up after the lyrics were quoted by Harry Styles. She/Her pronouns. Listen to her debut EP “Make my bed.”

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Mal Blum – Nonbinary pansexual folk/anti-folk/rock artist. Listen to “Valentine’s Day.” They/Them.

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Rachel Maria Cox – Nonbinary alternative/indie singer-songwriter. Listen to “Zips, Netflix & Dinner for Six.” They/Them pronouns.

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Rae Spoon – Their music varies from country to electronic rock and punk, but all of it’s good. They lived as a trans man for several years before realizing they were actually nonbinary & beginning to use they/them.

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Shamir – Shamir Bailey is a queer nonbinary indie rock/disco/hip house artist. He doesn’t have a preferred pronoun but is comfortable with male pronouns and “never really got the singular they.” Listen to “Larry Clark” and his latest album “Resolutions.”

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Nonbinary musical artists to bless your ears!!

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lesbiancrushes:

a lot of the lesbians that i personally know, myself included, don’t like being called q*eer because it feels like it’s somehow leaving our sexualities up for debate. it feels like people are scared of the finality of “lesbian.” if i’m a lesbian, that means no men, whatsoever. i love women and women-aligned people. but if i’m q*eer, that can leave so much to your imagination. maybe i like men, maybe i don’t. maybe it’s just my gender up for discussion, maybe it’s just that i don’t fit the status quo. going out of your way to call all lesbians q*eer instead of lesbians means that you don’t respect our right to the only identity that has ever truly felt like it’s fit us. i don’t want to be called q*eer for several reasons, but i especially don’t want to be called it OVER lesbian.

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healsbian:

lesbiannaegi:

“we give ao3 ludicrous amounts of money because its the only place queer people can get queer content (((^: you homophobes (((^:” yall know that there are actual lgbt authors out there publishing books of all genres with lgbt characters right? yall know that they could use your support and patronage to continue creating these works??? cause if you dont know, im telling you. 

heres some posts with lgbt books that could use some support, if you want to put your money where your fucking mouth is. 

and if you want to support your favorite lgbt fanfiction authors — do it directly! many of them have a ko-fi, some a patron, and even if they don’t you can just ask them if they want to start accepting donations because you want to support them! if you want to read a specific kind of fanfiction that you can’t find anywhere, commission one of your favorite writers! you will get something written for you, and you will support someone who actually makes lgbt content! the authors get nothing from ao3 anyways, so support them directly if that’s what you care about!

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fuckyeahlesbianliterature:

shiraglassman:

floramei:

maderr:

maderr:

affablyevil:

maderr:

amvi1323:

amvi1323:

Less Than Three Press

Ninestar Press

Harmony Ink

Dreamspinner Press

DSP Publications

Loose ID

Pride Publishing

Riptide Publishing

MLR Press

JMS Books

Blind Eye Books

Interlude Press

And there are many many more

I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can produce a list of scifi/fantasy/fiction books with queer female main characters.

Please…?

I’ll do this as soon as I’m at my computer, since doing it on my phone is impossible

Alright, I may be too little, too late, but here is my contribution at any rate. I hope some of them suit ^^

Keeper of the Dawn by Dianna Gunn

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova

A Darkly Beating Heart by Lindsay Smith

Of Fire & Stars by Audrey Coulthurst

Romancing the Inventor by Gail Carriger

Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher 

The Best of Both Worlds by Victoria Zagar

All Things Rise by Missouri Vahn

Beauty & Cruelty by Meredith Katz

A Question of Counsel by Archer Kay Leah

Breakfire’s Glass by A.M. Valenza

The Broken Forest by Megan Derr

Clariel by Garth Nix

Ash by Malinda Lo

Waiting for You by Megan Derr

Crystal Cage by Victoria Zagar

Glove of Satin, Glove of Bone by Rachel White

Hair to the Throne by Meredith Katz

Skyborn by Helena Maeve

The Galloway Road by Catherine Adams

The Scars of Jocasta Lacroix by Jack Harvey

Treason by Althea Claire Duffy

Walking on Knives by Maya Chhabra

Winterbourne’s Daughter by Stephanie Rabig

Addict by Matt Doyle

Shaper by Christine Danse

Nightshade by Brooke Radley

The Caphenon by Fletcher DeLancey

Daughter of Mystery by Heather Rose Jones

The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner

Okay, hopefully that’s a good start ❤

the OP of the screenshotted tweet is on tumblr, and an author too, having put out Chameleon Moon and related stories. 

I’m really relieved that both RoAnna and Heather’s books are linked on this post because if their tweets were going to be circulating around Tumblr with no way to indicate that Heather’s written a three-book (so far) fantasy series about magical lesbians and bi women in early 19th century Central Europe and RoAnna writes hopeful superhero dystopians that feature the only f/f/f triad MC’s I can think of in any book, that would have been hecking unfair.

@affablyevil, I hope that helps, but if you want more books, here’s a list I made a while ago of ten SFF f/f’s where they don’t die, and I am continually reading more and recommending more. (Have you heard of Flowers of Luna? College f/f set at fashion design college on the moon.)

[image description: a tweet from RoAnna Sylver (@RoAnna Syvler) reading “This June, please rememeber that there are more LGBT books than the ones you see everywhere put out by the Big 5, ad indies are amazing/worthy.” The next reblog is a tweet from Heather Rose Jones (@heatherrosejones) reading: “Making a list of queer SFF for Pride Month? Remember to look outside the mainstream presses. Don’t shut queer publishers out of queer lit.”]

Here’s a bunch of Goodreads lists that might help! 

Speculative Fiction (SFF and Horror):

And some more lists, including a whole history of LGBT SFF!

Also worth checking out is Queership!