{"id":8877,"date":"2020-12-05T12:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T12:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2020-12-05T12:33:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T12:33:34","slug":"two-books-to-pre-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/2020\/12\/two-books-to-pre-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Two books to pre-order!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two awesome bi activists have books coming out in 2021 and I can&#8217;t wait to read them!<\/p>\n<p>The first is Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for Lgbtqia+ Teens on the Spectrum by Erin Ekins. This will be a vital resource for young people, especially as being autistic and LGBTQ+ is marginalised despite the fact that they frequently coincide. You can pre-order it <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/queerly-autistic\/erin-ekins\/9781787751712\" >here<\/a>*.<\/p>\n<p>I also highly recommend checking this out if you organise events for LGBTQ+ people. When I ran Nottingham BiTopia for example, about a 1\/4 of attendees were autistic or neurodiverse. <\/p>\n<p>In case you aren&#8217;t following her already, Erin&#8217;s Twitter handle is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QueerlyAutistic\" >@QueerlyAutistic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second book is Bi the Way: The Bisexual Guide to Life by Lois Shearing from the same publisher (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). It&#8217;s described as an essential guide for anyone who is bisexual, or looking for information on bisexuality, and will cover a wide range of topics such as dating, dealing with biphobia, and gender identity. Click <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/bi-the-way\/lois-shearing\/9781787752900\" >here <\/a>to pre-order*, and you can follow Lois on Twitter at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LoShearing\" >@LoShearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>What books are you excited about? Do you have any recommendations? Let me know in the comments!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":83147982,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/05\\\/bisexual-book-recommendations\\\/\"}' class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery is-style-columns\">\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":83147982,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/05\\\/bisexual-book-recommendations\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\">\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":83147982,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/05\\\/bisexual-book-recommendations\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery__row\">\n<div data-carousel-extra='{\"blog_id\":83147982,\"permalink\":\"https:\\\/\\\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\\\/2020\\\/12\\\/05\\\/bisexual-book-recommendations\\\/\"}' class=\"tiled-gallery__col\" style=\"flex-basis:50%;\">\n<figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2713\" 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data-width=\"319\" src=\"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/9781787752900.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-small-font-size\">The above images are the book covers for Queerly Autistic and Bi The Way. Both covers are words on a coloured background. Queerly Autistic is yellow writing on orange. Bi The Way is pink, purple and blue on a purpple background.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">*Note: I&#8217;ve checked the publisher&#8217;s site and they are not available to pre-order there. If this changes I will swap the links so people can support them directly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two awesome bi activists have books coming out in 2021 and I can\u2019t wait to read them! The first is Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide for Lgbtqia+ Teens on the Spectrum by Erin Ekins. This will be a vital resource for young people, especially as being autistic and LGBTQ+ is marginalised despite the fact that \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/bisexualblogs.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/05\/bisexual-book-recommendations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two books to\u00a0pre-order!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">\u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":1211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[865,392,93,304,866,867,390],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autism","category-bi-activism","category-books","category-lgbtq","category-neurodiversity","category-recommendations","category-running-a-bi-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8877"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9111,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8877\/revisions\/9111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimedia.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}