Wrap-up: November 2022

We open this wrap up with the news that it’ll be our penultimate one. That’s not to say we won’t be doing something similar still, but just not here on the blog. In fact, we’re transferring it over to a newsletter! The first of those went out yesterday and you can read it here (and subscribe maybe?). Instead of being simply a list of everything we read or watched, and posted, it’ll be a little more interesting than that, our favourites of the month, things we’ve seen that we want to highlight, and more besides.

But in the meantime, we’ll finish off 2022 in wrap ups at least, alongside the first couple of newsletters. So, here’s November’s for you to enjoy (maybe).

What we read

Anna

Well this is awkward…

Charlotte

Ophelia After All by Racquel Marie (Cuban American sapphic mc, Black Puerto Rican American bi side character, Pakistani American questioning side character, Black pan side character, Korean American bi ace side character, Black side character, aro side character) – 2.5 🌈 cw homophobia [review]
Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (lesbian mc, Black side character, Black gay side character, gay side characters) – 3 🌈 cw homophobic slurs, past homophobic violence & gang rape, arson, animal death, cancer, death by fire [review to come]
Beebo Brinker by Ann Bannon (lesbian mc, lesbian & gay side characters) – 3 🌈 cw period typical homophobia, lesbophobia, sexual assault
The Armor of Light by Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett (gay mc & side characters) – 3 🌈
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (Black sapphic mcs) – 3.5 🌈

The Loch by Fran Dorricott (lesbian mcs, bi side character) – 4 🌈 [review to come]
🔥 Work for It by Talia Hibbert (Black gay mc with anxiety and depression, bi mc, bi side character) – 4 🌈
Giant Days, Vol. 3 by John Allison (lesbian mc) – 4 🌈
Giant Days, Vol. 4 by John Allison (lesbian mc) – 4 🌈
Giant Days, Vol. 5 by John Allison (lesbian mc) – 4 🌈

Giant Days, Vol. 6 by John Allison (lesbian mc) – 4 🌈
Mistress of Ambiguities by J. F. Rivkin (bi mcs, achillean mc) – 3 🌈
Monica Adams Skips Christmas by Krista Harper (bi mc, Japanese American lesbian li) – 2 🌈 [review]
Moira’s Pen by Megan Whalen Turner (gay mc, bi mc) – 4 🌈
How to Excavate a Heart by Jake Maia Arlow (Jewish lesbian mc & li, Indian American sapphic side character) – 4 🌈 cw past sexual assault, past controlling relationship [review]

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis (nonfiction) – 3 🌈
Giant Days, Vol. 7 by John Allison (lesbian mc) – 4 🌈
Sins of the Black Flamingo by Andrew Wheeler, Travis Moore & Tamra Bonvillain (gay mc, achillean side characters) – 3 🌈 cw gore, violence
Giant Days, Vol. 8 by John Allison (lesbian mc) – 4🌈
Giant Days, Vol. 9 by John Allison (lesbian mc) – 4🌈

Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan (sapphic mc, nonbinary li) – 4 🌈 cw misogyny, rape, gore, violence [review to come]
Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions by Henry Lien (sapphic characters) – 4 🌈

What we watched (and listened to)

Charlotte

1899 cr. Baran bo Odar & Jantje Friese (gay mcs)

Anna

🔥 Breaking Fast (2020), dir. Mike Mosallam (Muslim gay mc, gay li, Muslim gay characters) – 3.5 🌈
And the Band Played On (1993), dir. Roger Spottiswoode (docudrama; gay characters) – 2.5 🌈
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989), dir. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (documentary) – 4 🌈 tw death
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (S1), cr. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Black pan mc, trans character) – 2.5 🌈 tw blood, gore, violence, murder, death, transphobia, homophobia, bullying