We hope you enjoyed this episode! Below, you’ll find links to topics & resources that came up during our episode.

Books, Authors, and Media Mentioned
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N. K. Jemisin, almost all of her books, but especially The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Ursula K. Le Guin, specifically Earthsea & “The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas”

Jacques Lacan

Sigmund Freud

Jean Laplanche

Avgi Saketopoulou

The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, R. F. Kuang

All Systems Red (the Murderbot series), Martha Wells

“Signal” by L. D. Lewis

Gary Shteyngart

Hot Girls with Balls, Benedict Nguyen

Sky Daddy, Kate Folk

Crash, J. G. Ballard

Worlds of Fantasy (magazine)

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

Harlan Ellison

Digimon

Pokémon

Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld

Starship Troopers (film)

Lilith’s Brood (the Xenogenesis Trilogy), Octavia Butler

Baby-Sitter’s Club, Ann M. Martin

Sweet Valley High, Francine Pascal

Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

Oscar Wilde

Virginia Woolf

E. M. Forster

James Baldwin

Patricia Highsmith

Carson McCullers

Jack, A. M. Homes

The End of Alice, A.M. Homes

The Pout Pout Fish, Deborah Diesen

The Fellowship of the Rings (Lord of the Rings trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien

“Diggin’ on You,” TLC

Stephen Graham Jones

Model Home, Rivers Solomon

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

Resources Mentioned

We Reads 

We Reads on Bookshop.org

Stonewall Book Awards 

We Here Community School

We Here: Community Study 

Redbud Books

Borders (RIP)

Walden Books (RIP)

Barnes & Noble

Public Libraries (shoutout to the Louisville Public Library, Los Angeles Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library)

Credits

Hosts: Sofia Leung, nicholae cline, and Jen Brown

Producer: Imani Spence

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