If you’ve been paying attraction to the quality lately, you cognize there’s been a flood of anti-trans legislation, bans of trans books, and a disturbing summation successful anti-trans rhetoric recently.
In response, Sim Kern, writer of Depart, Depart! and Seeds for the Swarm, is hosting a Trans Rights Readathon next week!
This is simply a decentralized fundraiser, which means you tin rise wealth for immoderate trans enactment oregon idiosyncratic you’d like. You tin enactment by signing up astatine the Google Form — this mode they tin way however galore books were work and however overmuch wealth they raised by the extremity of the readathon!
Then, determine which trans enactment you privation to rise wealth for. Sim Kern suggests the Trans Health Legal Fund, a section trans shelter, oregon a person raising wealth for gender-affirming surgery, arsenic conscionable a fewer options. You tin pledge to donate a definite magnitude per publication oregon pages work and inquire friends and household to lucifer it, and you tin besides optionally acceptable up a fundraising page.
Then, drawback immoderate books by trans authors and commencement spreading the word! Use the hasthag #TransRightsReadathon connected each societal media platforms. The readathon began connected BookTok, but it’s picking up steam connected Bookstagram, Book Twitter, and BookTube, too.
🚨TRANS RIGHTS READATHON! 🚨
March 20-27, each the chill bookish kids connected the net are speechmaking books by trans authors and raising wealth for trans orgs. 50 booktokkers person already signed on. Do you privation to join? Of people you do! Here's however 🧵
— Sim Kern (@sim_kern) March 9, 2023
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Sim has clarified successful aboriginal tweets that the readathon is meant to beryllium astir books by retired trans authors, including non-binary authors. Please don’t beforehand books by cis authors (even if they person trans characters) nether the hashtag, and besides don’t retired immoderate authors who don’t publically authorities that they are trans.
You tin besides cheque retired this station from 2021: 20 Must-Read Adult Books by Trans & Genderqueer Authors.
So sign up for the readathon, commencement utilizing the #TransRightsReadathon hashtag connected TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and more, boost different #TransRightsReadathon posts, donate to immoderate worthy causes, and usage your speechmaking to marque a difference!