Fullerton College Library
Queer Book Club
Ever been a book club member? There’s never been a better time to connect with fellow literature lovers. The Queer Book Club includes instructors, staff, and students. Allies welcome!
We’ve discussed: 1) white fragility, 2) not being brown enough or queer enough, 3) Spanish language in popular American literature, 4) white feminism vs. brown feminism, 5) the hegemony of the canon, & 6) a space cat, of course.
This group was created in response to students’ request at the 2019 LGBTQ+ Student Forum.
Curious?
Join us for a meeting. Even if you don’t have time to read the book; we enjoy seeing your face & we appreciate the experiences and thoughts that you share.
Join our monthly book club talks via Zoom or in-person!
Want more info? Contact book club co-chairs: 1) Acquisitions Strawbrarian Monique Delatte, mdelatte@fullcoll.edu; 2) English Instructor Nic Vandever, nvandever@fullcoll.edu; & 3) Counselor Lisa Macafee, lmacafee@fullcoll.edu. The next meeting will be: Oct. 14, Friday: 1p-2p, room 822 . We’ll meet in the library meeting room, 822, which is across from the 2nd floor water fountains. Subsequent meeting dates/times will be determined at the initial meeting. We will also have a laptop open for remote participation via Zoom: https://fullcoll-edu.zoom.us/j/95777392524?pwd=ZFZtMDZ6U2lVYnBYaFJBTGIzOThBZz09 Meeting ID: 957 7739 2524 Passcode: 494904
David Sedaris‘ new collection of essays, Happy-Go-Lucky. Our next meeting will be Friday, 10.14, 1p-2p.
The Queer Book Club will read one book every other month, and we’ll meet to discuss roughly half of each title on the 2nd Friday of each month, from 1p-2p.
FC Library has free copies of Queer Book Club selections for book club participants. If you’re interested in joining us, then pick up your free copy. Books are available for FC employees and currently-enrolled students. You’ll just need to fill out a pick-up form or a new member form.
Another prior selection was: The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel.
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
QBC’s Past Reads
Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson
Critic Jason Heller writes that Hopkinson’s stories “dazzle with a hard-won sense of hope.”
On a Sunbeam BY TILLIE WALDEN
LA Times Book Prize – Winner, Hugo Award – Nominee, Lambda Literary Award – Nominee, Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, Harvey Award, Washington Post Best Books of the Year
THE SONG OF ACHILLES BY MADELINE MILLER
New York Times bestseller, Orange Prize
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Pulitzer Prize for Drama,
Tony Award for Best Play,
Desk Award for Outstanding Play
STONE BUTCH BLUES BY LESLIE FEINBERG
1994 Lambda Literary Award finalist in the category of Lesbian Fiction
1994 American Library Association Gay & Lesbian Book Award
HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH BY John Cameron Mitchell
Sundance Film Festival, Best Director Award
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
American Library Association Top Ten selection,
Over the Rainbow Project winner,
Independent Publisher Book Award for Gay/Lesbian/Bi/Trans Fiction silver award winner.
Females by Andrea Long Chu
Well-reviewed in Vogue, LA Times, & NPR
Queer Book Club Reads & Intersection
- Queer Latinx writers
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Sáenz, Benjamin Alire (Mexican American, gay)
- Juliet Takes a Breath Rivera, Gabby (Puerto-Rican, trans)
- Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World De Erauso, Catalina (Spanish, trans)
- More Happy Than Not Silvera, Adam (Puerto Rican, gay)
- Queer female writers
- The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For Bechdel, Alison
- On a Sunbeam Walden, Tillie
- One Last Stop McQuiston, Casey
- Nightwood Barnes, Djuna (poly)
- Queer Asian writers
- Females Chu, Andrea Long (Trans female writer, partially of Chinese descent)
- On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel Vuong, Ocean (Vietnamese, gay)
- The Magic Fish: (A Graphic Novel) Nguyen, Trung Le (Vietnamese-American, gay)
- Gay Jewish writers
- Two Boys Kissing Levithan, David
- Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Kushner, Tony
- Queer Black female writers
- Falling in Love with Hominids Hopkinson, Nalo (Caribbean, raised in Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad, and Canada)
- You Should See Me in a Crown Johnson, Leah
- Cherokee Two-Spirit and Queer writer, also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee, and Osage descent
- Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory Driskill, Qwo-Li
- Female writer
- The Song of Achilles: A Novel Miller, Madeline
- Gay poet
- (he)art. Frederick, Zane
- Gay writer, Primarily of Greek decent, but also of Middle-Eastern and Ashkenazi Jewish descent
- Happy-Go-Lucky Sedaris, David
- Queer Muslim writer
- We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir Habib, Samra
- Queer writer
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Broadway Edition Mitchell, John Cameron (nonbinary)
- (co-writer, Stephen Trask is of Jewish descent)
- Trans male writer of Irish Catholic descent
- Tomboy Survival Guide Coyote, Ivan
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- Zines (various) from QZAP– the Queer Zine Archive Project