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Happy Native American Heritage Month 2024!

Happy Native American Heritage Month 2024! To celebrate, we’re featuring books starring queer Native American and First Nations characters, by Native American and/or First Nations authors, as well as poetry and nonfiction. For even more recommendations, check out last year’s post! (And again, while the usual affiliate links are included, you’re strongly encouraged to order from the Native-owned Birchbark Books where applicable!)

Middle Grade

The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon

One year ago, a solar flare scorched the Earth and destroyed life as we know it.

With their parents gone and supplies running dangerously low, step-sisters Millie and Rose only have one chance at survival: leave home with their infant half-brother and loyal dog Corncob in search of Millie’s grandma, a Seminole elder. As they navigate the burning land with a group of fellow survivors, dodging The Hive, a villainous group that has spent the last year hoarding supplies and living in luxury, the siblings have to learn to rely on each other more than ever, and discover how to build a new life from the ashes.

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Fave Five: Queer Fiction Starring Sex Workers

On Home by Becca Spence Dobias

City of Night by John Rechy

Cam Girl by Elliot Wake w/a Leah Raeder

Treasure by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

Bonus: Coming in 2024, The Boyfriend Subscription by Steven Salvatore

Fave Five: Queer Indigenous YA

Fire Song by Adam Garnet Jones

Elatsoe and A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

Love After the End ed. by Joshua Whitehead (anthology)

The Boy from the Mish by Gary Lonesborough (publishing in the US as Ready When You Are on February 1, 2022)

Songs that Sound Like Blood by Jared Thomas

Bonus: Coming in 2024, Godly Heathens by H.E. Edgmon

Fave Five: Poetry by Indigenous Authors

Feed by Tommy Pico (Kumeyaay)

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz (Gila River)

full metal indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead (Oji-Cree)

Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist (Cree)

You Are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World by Smokii Sumac (Ktunaxa)