5 must-read short stories books like Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

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Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.18

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award…

"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

If you liked the short stories plot in Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology

By: Hope Nicholson , Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Love Beyond, Body, Space, and Time" is a collection of indigenous science fiction and urban fantas… read more

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  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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2. The Marrow Thieves

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.97

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dre… read more

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"When we heal our land, we are healed also."

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"I did have the longest hair of any of the boys... I braided it myself each morning, to keep it out of the way and to remind myself of things I couldn’t quite remember but that, nevertheless, I knew t…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"We go to the schools and they leach the dreams from where our ancestors hid them, in the honeycombs of slushy marrow buried in our bones. And us? Well, we join our ancestors, hoping we left enough dr…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

"And I understood that as long as there are dreamers left, there will never be want for a dream. And I understood just what we would do for each other, just what we would do for the ebb and pull of th…"

-Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

3. Islands of Decolonial Love

By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more

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4. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology an… read more

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5. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Joshua Whitehead's Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

  • fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • anthologies
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6. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Joshua Whitehead's Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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7. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • indigenous
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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8. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

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9. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Joshua Whitehead's Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

  • queer
  • lgbt
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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10. The Bruising of Qilwa

By: Naseem Jamnia

3.75

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this intricate debut fantasy introducing a queernormative Persian-inspired world, a nonbinary re… read more

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  • queer
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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11. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.55

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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12. This Place: 150 Years Retold

By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm

4.38

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

In graphic novel format, Indigenous writers explore the untold stories of the past, present, and fu… read more

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  • short stories
  • anthologies
  • indigenous
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13. it was never going to be okay

By: jaye simpson

4.35

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Sovereignty, vulnerability, honesty." — Ms. Magazine it was never going to be okay is a collection… read more

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  • queer
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
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14. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

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  • queer
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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15. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
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16. The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island

By: Kent Monkman

4.31

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

From global art superstar Kent Monkman and his long-time collaborator Gisèle Gordon, a transformati… read more

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  • queer
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
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17. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

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  • queer
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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18. Disintegrate/Dissociate

By: Arielle Twist

4.22

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relati… read more

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  • queer
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
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19. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.18

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction book and Joshua Whitehead's Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • indigenous
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Cover of Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

20. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

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  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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21. Death's Country

By: R.M. Romero

3.84

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hadestown meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve th… read more

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

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3.32

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