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Themes labels used: identity, conformity, conversion therapy, queer repression, self-acceptance, resistance, hope, trauma, gaslighting, gender roles, sexuality, state violence, surveillance, climate disaster, white supremacy, racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, belonging, choice, community, indoctrination, assimililation, truth vs lies

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Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey · 2020 · Sand in the Gears

A runaway queer teen stows away with covert librarian spies in a dystopian Wild West and discovers her place in the fight.

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Themes labels: queer identity · self-acceptance · internalized homophobia · resistance · fascism · censorship · patriarchy · community · belonging · solidarity · marginality · freedom · hope · survival · identity policing · propaganda · otherness · coming out · gender norms · political oppression

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Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder – A Young Adult Sci Fi Anthology of LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction

Saundra Mitchell · 2022 · Queer Anthologies

Seventeen queer YA sci-fi stories imagine future worlds of love, struggle, survival, and identity across the galaxy.

Why this is here

Themes labels: identity · gender affirmation · queer futures · representation · prejudice · coming out · transition · dysphoria · classism · racism · homophobia · transphobia · climate crisis · grief · closure · hope · love · acceptance · survival · community · future of queer youth · bigotry in institutions · government control · choice · selfhood

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A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers

Victor LaValle, Charlie Jane Anders, A. Merc Rustad, Lizz Huerta, Maria Dahvana Headley, Malka Ann Older, Sam J. Miller, Tananarive Due, Ashok K. Banker, Omar El Akkad, Daniel José Older, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Justina Ireland, Violet Allen, Gabby Rivera, Tobias S. Buckell, Hugh Howey, Jamie Ford, G. Willow Wilson, N.K. Jemisin, Charles Yu, Kai Cheng Thom, Daniel H. Wilson, Catherynne M. Valente, Seanan McGuire, Alice Sola Kim · 2019

A diverse anthology imagines near-future Americas shaped by resistance, oppression, and hard-won hope.

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Themes labels: resistance · oppression · marginalization · representation · freedom · justice · equity · love · hope · fear · surveillance · climate change · racism · xenophobia · sexism · homophobia · queer erasure · government control · corporate power · migration · body autonomy · reproductive rights · slavery · community building · empathy · revolution · identity · history and mythology

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The Outrage

William Hussey · 2021

In a near-future England, a gay teen hides in plain sight under a brutal regime that criminalizes who he loves.

Why this is here

Themes labels: representation · queer rights · freedom · censorship · complacency · fear and hatred · resistance · identity · self-acceptance · love under oppression · political radicalization · historical memory · hope · social change

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My Volcano

John Elizabeth Stintzi · 2022

A suddenly growing Central Park volcano links a global cast through disaster, transformation, and shifting realities.

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Themes labels: identity · queerness · transness · ecological disaster · climate change · globalization · consumerism · capitalism · racism · transphobia · gun violence · social violence · existential dread · hope · alienation · human connection · world interconnectedness · trauma · grief · apathy · community · otherness · body transformation · memory · loss · resilience · anti-violence · environmental exploitation

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In Universes

Emet North · 2024

A queer cosmology researcher falls through parallel lives, chasing love, meaning, and the self they might have been.

Why this is here

Themes labels: queer identity · gender fluidity · sexuality · regret · grief · loss · trauma · healing · hope · belonging · self-acceptance · meaning-making · fate versus choice · agency · responsibility · alternate lives · love · loneliness · mental health · forgiveness · memory · nature versus nurture · bodily autonomy · class · classism · alienation · the past · authenticity

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The Dawnhounds

Sascha Stronach · 2022 · The Endsong

A queer ex-thief cop dies in a living biotech city, returns with strange powers, and joins pirates to stop a plague.

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Themes labels: queer oppression · homophobia · biphobia · systemic corruption · policing · ACAB · self-denial · identity · belonging · home · hope · resilience · broken systems · religious authoritarianism · class divide · war aftermath · body autonomy · life and death · immortality · nature and technology · faith · mythic power

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The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

Janelle Monáe · 2022

A queer Afrofuturist anthology expands a dystopian world of memory control, resistance, and hard-won hope.

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Themes labels: memory and identity · gender identity · queerness · race · anti-racism · resistance · authoritarianism · surveillance · autonomy · freedom · hope · community · love · time · capitalism · art as resistance · utopia · collective liberation · purity politics · conformity · body autonomy · representation

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Hell Followed With Us

Andrew Joseph White · 2022

A trans teen fleeing a doomsday cult finds refuge with queer survivors, even as his body becomes their apocalypse.

Why this is here

Themes labels: queer rage · religious trauma · trans identity · body dysphoria · monstrosity · agency · survival · revenge · oppression · resilience · hope · belonging · acceptance · systemic violence · organized religion · bigotry · perseverance

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Songlight

Moira Buffini · 2024 · The Torch Trilogy

In a brutal dystopian future, two secret telepaths and unlikely allies are drawn into a war against their oppressive society.

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Themes labels: oppression · misogyny · patriarchy · homophobia · propaganda · prejudice · social complicity · identity · acceptance · freedom · truth vs lies · resistance · war · justice · humanity · othering · class difference · women's rights · community · hope · survival · colonization · brainwashing · minority persecution · moral responsibility

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Milo and Marcos at the End of the World

Kevin Christopher Snipes · 2022

A closeted Christian teen reunites with his first crush as uncanny disasters test their love and faith.

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Themes labels: internalized homophobia · religious trauma · coming out · self-acceptance · self-love · faith and sexuality · anxiety · identity conflict · shame · acceptance · courage · hope · love and belonging · family trauma · community pressure · bigotry · authenticity · queer identity · belief and doubt · guilt

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A Circle of Stars

Craig Montgomery · 2023 · The Stardust Duology

A queer teen is abducted to a lunar city where astrology fuels magic, politics, and a dangerous chosen-one role.

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Themes labels: belonging · identity · self-acceptance · queer acceptance · oppression · privilege · classism · segregation · rebellion · political corruption · social injustice · choice · home · trauma · religious trauma · power structures · community · acceptance · truth · self-discovery

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