Tag: Pride Month

Love-Full: SFF Recs With Polyamory!

Posted 18th June 2021 by Siavahda in Lists, Queer Lit, Recommendations / 14 Comments

My rec list of TWENTY-THREE amazing SFF books with polyamory!

Pride Doesn’t End With June: Queer Fantasy+SciFi Books for the rest of 2020

Posted 30th June 2020 by Siavahda in Uncategorised / 0 Comments

Pride Month’s coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean the pride stops! I’ve talked a bit already about what books I’m looking forward to in the rest of 2020, but I thought I’d put together a list of the upcoming queer stories I’m most excited for – the books that’ll carry our little queer […]

Your Gender Binary Is Imaginary; Genderqueer Characters in Fantasy (+ Bonus SciFi)

Posted 29th June 2020 by Siavahda in Lists, Queer Lit, Recommendations / 2 Comments

More and more, we’re having an easier time finding cis queer characters in Fantasy – not an easy time; there’s still not enough of them, and publishers often don’t advertise the fact that a book is queer. But there’s more than there used to be, and the number’s steadily increasing. It’s much harder to find […]

Raise Your Flag Up High: Pride Flag Fantasy Book Recs

Posted 14th June 2020 by Siavahda in Lists, Queer Lit, Recommendations / 0 Comments

Shamelessly nabbing the idea from Rainbow Reads (which is a fantastic book blog for queer fiction, and if you’re not subscribed to their posts, you should be!) I’m going to rec a Fantasy book for each of the stripes of the Pride flag. Rainbow Reads used the original Gilbert Baker flag + the new brown […]

Why Do I Want My Fantasy to be Queer?

Posted 8th June 2020 by Siavahda in Let's Dig In: Thoughts, Analysis, Essays, Queer Lit / 0 Comments

If you pitch me two similar-sounding books, but one is queer? Then that’s the one I’m picking. And I can’t figure out why. Of course, it’s a given that representation matters in fiction – I’m not here to debate that; as far as I’m concerned, it’s a fact, not an opinion. This post isn’t about […]

Queer Fantasy Rec List: Resistance & Rebellion

Posted 1st June 2020 by Siavahda in Lists, Queer Lit, Recommendations / 1 Comment

Resistance & Rebellion, queer style.

It’s My Blog Birthday – Let’s Have Some Pride!

Posted 1st June 2020 by Siavahda in Queer Lit, Reading Challenges / 1 Comment

Today my blog is ONE WHOLE YEAR OLD! It’s also the first day of Pride Month! It’s no coincidence that those two dates are the same – I started Every Book a Doorway so I’d have a place to talk about queer fantasy, and although health problems meant I wasn’t as active for my first […]