🌈 Pride Month : Slogan Contest and Book Recommendations - Page 3

Originally posted by: Grey-licious

And finally this thread is GAed

I was waiting for it! 😆

Waiting to see more people to join in!

Tagging some!

Where are the Pride Army's Soldiers 🤔

C'mon guyz Recommend us some LGBTQ+ Books

Tagging some more members

Originally posted by: Grey-licious

Tagging some more members

Thanks for the tag

Will try to come up with something 😃

Originally posted by: Grey-licious

Tagging some more members

Good to hear the thought process and inspiration and other things about the lgtbq+ themed stories this month. I have read almost all of them and they all are so beautiful❤️

Beautiful thread Mahi and write up is amazing Mahi, Madhu and Sonatia👏

Goodluck to all the participants for the slogan contest. I cant write to save my life but i love reading so looking forward for the contest.

Thanks for the tag btw😃

We read one of Billy-Ray Belcourt's poems called 'Sacred' from his poem collection, 'This wound is a world' in my English class when I was doing a course to upgrade my skill sets.

Here's a link to his website:

https://billy-raybelcourt.com/

He's a young, Indigenous Canadian that identifies as two-spirit.

Here's a description of the book on his website:

"Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to world inside.” Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like theirs without giving up on the future. His poems upset genre and play with form, scavenging for a decolonial kind of heaven where “everyone is at least a little gay.”

His website also has links to his online literary work that include fiction that you can read for free here:

https://hazlitt.net/longreads/outside-people-were-crying-or-they-werent

and here:

https://littlefiction.com/beta/2018Flash_BillyRayBelcourt.html

Another poem we read was 'Never read the comments' by beck mackenzie paterson, a non-binary trans person that goes by the pronoun 'they/them' and prefers to use all lowercase letters for aesthetic.

The poem itself is a commentary on the world of social media and how people find it easy to target and spew their hate agenda on others, especially those like beck.

It is found in a book of poetry compilations called Drifting like a Metaphor: Calgary Poets of Promise.

Here's the good reads link:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40195274-drifting-like-a-metaphor

And here's a link to beck's website if you'd like to know more about them.

https://www.beckpaterson.ca/

Another LGBTQ+ Canadian author of note is Vivek Shraya, a transwoman of Indian origin who's also a musician, an artist and an assistant professor in creative writing at the University of Calgary.

You can read about Vivek in this article:

https://scroll.in/magazine/817901/a-transwoman-of-indian-origin-is-making-canada-look-hard-at-racism-and-homophobia

Here's a link to her website which features her works:

https://vivekshraya.com/projects/books/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/parenting/mothers-day/toronto-transgender-artists-deeply-personal-art-honours-mother/article29884602/