From March 22 – 29, 2024, the Trans Rights Readathon is being held. As a nonbinary individual, I find this readathon to be so important, and I am participating this year!

For each book that I read during the readathon, I am going to donate $5 to Queer Asterisk, an organization here in Denver, Colorado that provides counseling, education, and community programs for queer, trans, and gender expansive lives.

It is not too late to join the Trans Rights Readathon! The aim is to read as many books as you can by (or about) trans, genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming, and 2Spirit authors and characters, leading up to the Trans Day of Visibility on March 31. The majority of readers are choosing to donate to their own local trans/LGBTQIA+ organizations during the readathon, but you do not have to! Simply supporting creators in this community through the books you read and spread awareness about during the readathon is enough.

If you are interested in joining, you can register here or by clicking the photo above. There are free graphics to use through the website, and you can join the readathon on StoryGraph.

Books I’m Reading for the Readathon

While I am hoping to read as many books as possible this week, below are four that I am prioritizing.

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep.

Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go.

Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own.

Goodreads Synopsis

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker – Martin

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt, an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival.

Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they’ll never face the same fate.

Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren’t safe.

After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics―all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.

Manhunt is a timely, powerful response to every gender-based apocalypse story that failed to consider the existence of transgender and non-binary people, from a powerful new voice in horror.

Goodreads Synopsis

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death.

A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an internet chat room in the early 2000s—a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires.

What have you done today to deserve your eyes?

Goodreads Synopsis

A Million Quiet Revolutions by Robin Gow

For as long as they can remember, Aaron and Oliver have only ever had each other. In a small town with few queer teenagers, let alone young trans men, they’ve shared milestones like coming out as trans, buying the right binders–and falling for each other.

But just as their relationship has started to blossom, Aaron moves away. Feeling adrift, separated from the one person who understands them, they seek solace in digging deep into the annals of America’s past. When they discover the story of two Revolutionary War soldiers who they believe to have been trans man in love, they’re inspired to pay tribute to these soldiers by adopting their names–Aaron and Oliver. As they learn, they delve further into unwritten queer stories, and they discover the transformative power of reclaiming one’s place in history.

Goodreads Synopsis

I hope you decide to join! If you need any recommendations for books, let me know, and I will be happy to help.