Wrap-up: May 2022

Happy Pride! Hope this month is gonna be filled with nothing but beautiful & joyful things for you!

But speaking of the past month, in absolutely shocking news, I (Anna) finally remembered what it means to read! Very exciting, even if most of what I read were romance novels… Anyway, check out what media we consumed in May!

What we read

Anna

The Science of Being Angry by Nicole Melleby (sapphic mc with anger management issues, sapphic li, lesbian parents) – 4 🌈 tw blood, bullying, panic attacks [review]
🔥 Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales (bi female mcs, gay side character) – 5 🌈
🔥 Season’s Change by Cait Nary (gay mc with anxiety, bi mc) – 5 🌈 tw internalised homophobia, implied past homophobic abuse, vomiting, panic attacks, toxic parents, blood & violence (hockey)
The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting by K.J. Charles (gay mcs) – 3.5 🌈 tw child abuse, implied domestic abuse
After the Wedding by Courtney Milan (bi mc, lesbian side characters) – 4 🌈

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell & Ned Asta (nonfiction) – 5 🌈
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle by Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson (nonfiction) – 5 🌈
Queers Read This by Anonymous (nonfiction) – 3 🌈
Living as a Lesbian by Cheryl Clarke (poetry) – 4 🌈
Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert (Black bi mc, sapphic side characters) – 5 🌈 tw panic attacks, past death of family members

Charlotte

Tell Me Everything by Laura Kay (lesbian mc, lesbian side characters, nonbinary side character) – 4 🌈 [review]
Hand Picked by May Archer (bi mc, gay mc) – 2 🌈
Freshman Year by Annameekee Hesik (lesbian mc & side characters) – 1 🌈 cw lesbophobia
The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On by Franny Choi (poetry) – 4 🌈
Rockstar & Softboy by Sina Grace (gay mcs) – 2 🌈

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (gay mc) – 4 🌈 cw homophobia, adult-minor relationship, past rape, self harm, suicidal ideation, past suicide, homophobic slurs
Justice League Dark, Volume 2: The Books of Magic by Jeff Lemire (bi mc) – 2.5 🌈
Teen Titans, Volume 3: The Return of Kid Flash (Black gay mc) – 2.5 🌈
Batman: Detective Comics, Volume 3: League of Shadows by James Tynion IV (lesbian mc) – 3 🌈
Chef’s Kiss by Jarrett Melendez & Danica Brine (gay mc, gay li) – 4 🌈

Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett (lesbian mcs) – 5 🌈 [review]
The Name of All Things by Jenn Lyons (bi mc, sapphic trans & gay side characters) – 2 🌈 cw gore, eye horror
Batwoman, Volume 1: The Many Arms of Death by Marguerite Bennett (Jewish lesbian mc) – 2.5 🌈
Batwoman, Volume 2: Wonderland by Marguerite Bennett (Jewish lesbian mc) – 2.5 🌈
Batwoman, Volume 3: The Fall of the House of Kane by Marguerite Bennett (Jewish lesbian mc) – 2.5 🌈

Arclight by Brandon Graham & Marian Churchland (genderqueer mc) – 3 🌈
Epically Earnest by Molly Horan (bi mc, sapphic li, gay side characters) – 4 🌈 [review]
So Happy for You by Celia Laskey (lesbian mc, Filipino American lesbian li, Black gay side character, trans side character) – 3 🌈 [review]
High Times at the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson (lesbian mc, lesbian lis) – 4 🌈 [review]
Slip by Marika McCool & Aatmaja Pandya (South Asian American sapphic mc, sapphic li) – 3 🌈 cw suicide attempts [review]

Glorious Poison by Kat Dunn (Black lesbian mc, bi mc, gay mc & li) – 3.5 🌈 [review]
Briefly, a Delicious Life by Nell Stevens (bi mc, bi side characters) – 2.5 🌈 [review]
The Splinter King by Mike Brooks (gay mcs, nonbinary mcs) – 4 🌈
The Witch King by H. E. Edgmon (gay trans mc, Black achillean li, sapphic side characters, nonbinary lesbian side character, Native American bi side character) – 2 🌈 cw transphobia, violence, misgendering, deadnaming
If, Then by Kate Hope Day (bi/pan mc, lesbian li) – 2.5 🌈

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (sapphic mc, gay side characters) – 2 🌈 cw gore, torture
Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie (Black sapphic mc, Black bi li, Afro Latina trans side character) – 2 🌈 cw past sexual assault, implied past child abuse, police brutality, racism
Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault (achillean mcs) – 3 🌈
🔥 Saint by Sierra Simone (bi mc with depression, Black gay li) – 4 🌈 cw suicidal ideation, past sexual abuse, past suicide
Tahira in Bloom by Farah Heron (Black lesbian side character, pan side character) – 2 🌈
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen (gay & lesbian side characters) – 4 🌈 [review]

What we watched (and listened to)

Charlotte

Sister Boniface Mysteries (1.08) cr. Jude Tindall (gay character) – 2.5 🌈
Derry Girls (S3) cr. Lisa McGee (lesbian mc, gay character) – 4 🌈
Query (2020) dir. Sophie Kargman (Black bi mc, bi mc) – 3 🌈
Heartstopper (S1) cr. Euros Lyn & Alice Oseman (gay mc, bi mc, Black trans mc, Black lesbian mc, lesbian mc) – 3 🌈 cw sexual assault
Midsomer Murders (S22) cr. Caroline Graham (gay characters)