Read Harder isn’t the one studying problem occurring in 2024, after all! That’s why I’m highlighting a few of the different challenges you would possibly need to add to your studying objectives this 12 months. Fellow Book Rioter Laura Sackton is internet hosting Queer Your Year 2024: a yearlong studying problem that celebrates queer record. There are 48 challenges in whole, however there are additionally seasonal bingo boards organizing the challenges into smaller chunks: you may go for a line or attempt to blackout the board. As a bonus, each bingo you full enters you in a raffle to win a queer e-book from an indie bookstore of your selection!
Like I did with POPSUGAR’s studying problem, I’m giving a advice for every of the primary six prompts to get you began. I’m certain you’ll find loads of overlap between the prompts for Read Harder 2024, too! If you’d like extra suggestions for Queer Your Year 2024, let me know in the feedback, and I can proceed with the subsequent prompts. I’d additionally like to listen to from you: are you doing every other studying challenges this 12 months? Let’s chat in the feedback part!
#1: Read a queer e-book printed by a new-to-you indie press
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt
I already wrote a listing of seven suggestions for this immediate for Our Queerest Shelves, Book Riot’s queer books e-newsletter, so I’m going to reuse one of many suggestions I shared there!
This memoir explores life as a queer Indigenous individual, together with discussions of colonialism, grief, love, intercourse, artwork, and far more. Billy-Ray Belcourt can also be a poet, and a poet’s memoir is at all times price selecting up. Two Dollar Radio is a family-run writer in Columbus, Ohio.
#2: Read a queer anti-colonial e-book
Everfair by Nisi Shawl
This is a steampunk reimagining of the historical past of Congo. Belgium’s brutal colonization of Congo is going through opposition from the technological developments of the individuals of Congo. African Americans purchase a plot of land there to determine a utopia named Everfair. This challenge is examined from many alternative factors of view, from the Chinese laborers introduced in by King Leopold II to work on the railroad, to the previously enslaved individuals constructing a brand new house there, to the previous rulers of Congo making an attempt to regain their energy, to the white funders of Everfair. This is such a multi-faceted have a look at the state of affairs, and woven all through is an advanced romantic relationship between two ladies because it transforms over years.
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