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Reading for the End of the World

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Harvey, Andrew. The Essential Gay Mystics. Pilgrim Press, 2002.

Hay, Harry, et al. A Radical Fairy's Seedbed: The Collected Series. Edited by Bradley Rose, Vortex Media/Nomenus, 1997.

Hayes, Kelly and Mariame Kaba. Let This Radicalize You. Haymarket Books, 2023.

Jensen, Derrick. The Culture of Make Believe. Context Books, 2002.

Marcus, Eric. “Making Gay History: The Podcast.” Making Gay History, https://makinggayhistory.com/.

McKibben, Bill, et al. I'm with the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet. Edited by Mark Martin, Verso, 2011.

Miller, Neil. Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present. Random House, 1995.

Osmundson, Joseph. Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.

Solomon, Rivers, et al. The Deep. Saga Press, 2020.

Whitehead, Joshua, editor. Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit & Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction. Arsenal Pulp Press, 2021.

Voices heard in fields of green
Their joy their calm and luxury
Are lost within the wanderings of my mind
I’m cutting branches from the trees
Shaped by years of memories
To exorcise their ghosts from inside of me
The sound of waves in a pool of water
I’m drowning in my nostalgia
— David Sylvian