Books I read for #QueerDisabledBooksBingo

Written by pepperthephoenix

In case you don’t know bhavya_reads on Twitter put together this wonderful bingo board for the months of June and July to celebrate Pride Month and Disability Pride Month! Since a single book could be applied to five prompts, I completed a total of 16 out of the 25 prompts.

A graphic with a rainbow background. A brown hand is holding a pride flag on the left. '2023 pride month bingo' is written in the center in black over a cream background. A green colour poster of a man with purple hair holding a phone is beside it. He says 'sounds gay, I'm in'. A cream colour box is in the center. '#QueerDisabled Books Bingo' is written in black. Below that is a table of 5 x 5. RAB is 'Read a Book'. Shortened for the image description. 1 RAB by a queer disabled author 2 RAB with a queer disabled MC 3 RAB with more than one queer disabled character 4 Read a multi-pov book with a queer disabled MC 5 RAB in 1st person with a queer disabled MC 6 RAB in 3rd person written with a queer disabled MC 7 Read an audiobook narrated by a queer disabled person 8 RAB with a lesbian disabled MC 9 RAB with a gay disabled MC 10 RAB with a bisexual/pansexual disabled MC 11 RAB with a transgender disabled MC 12 RAB with a non-binary disbaled MC 13 RAB with an intersex disabled MC 14 RAB with an aromatic disabled MC 15 RAB with an asexual disabled MC 16 Read a romance book with a queer disabled MC 17 Read a polyam romance book with a disabled MC 18 Read a fantasy book with a disabled MC 19 Read a sci-fi book with a disabled MC 20 Read a contemporary book with a disabled MC 21 Read a horror book with a disabled MC 22 Read a mystery book with a disabled MC 23 Read a book written by more than one queer disabled author 24 Read a book with a queer disabled MC on the cover 25 Read a book with more than one queer disabled MC on the cover 'Live with pride' is written at the bottom left, in rainbow colours. A rainbow star is on the bottom right. A fancy brown feather is next to it. '@bhavya_reads' is in black at the bottom right.

Here are the books I read:

A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha". In the center is a small rectangle of a white clock in the rays of a red sun. The title of the book is The Future is Disabled. Below the book there is text that says "Non-fiction memoir, An insightful look at being disabled during COVID-19, A beautiful love letter to the disabled community, a vision of what our world could be"
  • The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
    • An insightful and beautiful love letter to the disabled community. It explores all the ways disabled people have saved each other and all the ways they had to adapt during the pandemic. This is a rightfully sad book as it documents all the ways the world’s governments have failed the disabled community, but it is also a hopeful memoir. The future may be disabled, but if we come together, it doesn’t have to be a tragic future.
A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "The Ending Fire Trilogy by Saara El-Arifi". In the center there are small rectangle. One is blue with a black woman and braids. The title is The Final Strife. The second rectangle is red with a black woman and an afro. The title is The Battle Drum Below the books there is text that says "African and Arabian inspired storytelling, queer and gender feelings, great disability rep, empires are the worst, rebellion can cost too damn much, colonialism is the worst, the truth will reveal itself"
  • The Final Strife and the Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi
    • Three women, harmed and oppressed by a tyrannical empire, work together to spark a revolution just as the empire is changing its leaders. Little do they realized that their struggle is just a small part of a much longer and ancient struggle.
A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "Dead Space by Kali Wallace". In the center is a small black rectangle with green hexagons. The title of the book is Dead Space. Below the book there is text that says "Intriguing murder mystery, great space adventure, exploration of corporate abuse and not owning parts of your own body, exploration of AI used in corporate settings, troubled creator-child relationship"
  • Dead Space by Kali Wallace
    • Hester investigates the murder of one of her friends at an abandoned mine station. As she investigates, she discovers deadly secrets that very powerful entities want to remain hidden and, after all, no one in space can hear you scream. 
A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "Glitches & Stitches by Nicole Givens Kurtz". In the center is a small black rectangle with the image of a white woman with black hair and flowers in her hair. The title of the book is Glitches & Stitches. Below the book there is text that says "Queer feelings, hardboiled, cynical, traumatized cops, dealing with PTSD while on your last case, strong Blade Runner feels."
  • Glitches and Stitches: Death Violation by Nicole Givens Kurtz
    • An inspector with PTSD, Fawn, must investigate the strange murder of a world famous scientist obsessed with cybernetics. However, his rival scientists care more about their own tech than the death of a colleague, a hacker gets involved, and a group with a history of human rights violations issues their own threats. Fawn has to solve the murder before the case overwhelms her. 
A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong". In the center is a small black rectangle with with the face of a red skinned woman. Flowers in her fair, a yellow postcard over her right eye and a piece of her cheek misisng, replaced by a grey bridge" The title of the book is Liar, Dreamer, Thief. Below the book there is text that says "A compassionate look at what happens when you can't trust your own mind, justice/revenge, twisted villain, compelling mystery, family issues and reconciliation"
  • Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong
    • Katrina Kim has been following a crush. However, after her crush commits suicide in front of her, she realizes he knew she was there and that he has a secret life that she, somehow, didn’t know anything about. The further she dives into his life, the more fragile her grasp on reality grows. Can she solve the mystery before the mystery consumes her? 
A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "Being Seen by Elsa Sjunneson". In the center is a small black rectangle with the title Being Seen in a light grey and the I is a bright light, casting illumination on the n and g. Below the book there is text that says "Insightful and compelling memoir, a love letter to the disabled community, great insight into how entrenched ableism is in our lives, exploration in how ableism affects how disability is portrayed in the media
  • Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism
    • This is both a memoir and analysis on the representation of disabilities in shows, books, movies, etc, written by a deaf blind writer. 
A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis". In the center is a small black rectangle with two faces, back to back by not facing each other. On the right is the face of a brown boy with brown hair and eyes closed. On the left is the face of a black girl with black hair eyes open. The title of the book is Otherbound. Below the book there is text that says "Fun worldbuilding, they're lesbians, Harold, intriguing magic system, nice, coming of age story"
  • Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
    • Amara and Nolan live completely different lives in completely different worlds, but they’re connected mentally through a power they don’t fully understand. As they work together to try and understand their connection, they bring upon themselves dangerous forces that want to utilize their power no matter the cost. 
A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "The Girls are Never Gone by Sarah Glenn Marsh". In the center is a small black rectangle with a white hand holding onto flowers. The hand is emerging from the water. The title of the book is The Girls are Never Gone Below the book there is text that says "queer, coming of age story, haunted mansion with a fucked up ghost, rich white people are the worst, really toxic mother-daughter feelings, great diabetes rep, don't worry! the dog lives."
  • The Girls Are Never Gone
    • A coming of age story set in a haunted mansion. Dare is a podcast who reports on the supernatural and unknown. She is also diabetic and has an adorable doggy, who survives the entire story. She goes to a haunted house by a giant lake and discovers that a very wrathful ghost is killing young women. She just has to figure out why.
A square icon of a rainbow. There is text that says "The Outside Series in Ada Hoffman". In the center there are three rectangles. The rectangle is on the left. It is dark with grey, swirling tentacles. The title is The Outside. The middle rectangle is the image of a blue and yellow sky with twisting green tentacles and a tiny human watching the creature. The Title is the Fallen. The rectangle on the right is of a blue multi-eyed tentacle creature offering a blue orbs to a human. The title is the Infinite Below the book there is text that says "Beautiful, queer autistic rep, mentally ill people helping each other, community is the only way to survive, digital angels, AI gods, twisted, abusive relationships."
  • The Outside Trilogy
    • Set in a world where AI has reached godhood and they feed on human souls, Yasira, an autistic scientist who accidentally and unknowingly invents a machine that wraps reality. The AI send their “angels”, human machine integrated people, who take Yasira in because they need her help to track down her mentor who taught Yasira how to make her machine and who communicates with Cthulhu like creatures. 

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