From their specific location as a marginalized community, queer writers have been key contributors to the field of experimental writing—it seems that because queer stories so often disrupt the normative, these stories are particularly situated to also be told in a queer way . Here are a list of some of our favorite queer texts:
Comics:
100 Crushes Elisha Lim
Fun Home Allison Bechedel
Love and Rockets Series
Poetry:
Feeld Jos Charles
Non-Fiction:
2500 Random Things About Me Too—Matias Viegener
Argonauts Maggie Nelson
Bad Indians Deborah Miranda
Bluets Maggie Nelson
Borderlands : The New Mestiza = La Frontera Gloria Anzaldúa
I Remember Joe Brainard
I Remember Shane Allison
Some Animal Ely Shipley
Novels:
Black Wave Michelle Tea
Gulf Dreams Emma Perez
Sorry To Disrupt The Peace Patty Yumi Cottrell
The Mixquiahuala letters Ana Castillo
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