Often, being queer means crossing binaries and boundaries—being on a spectrum of gender identity and sexual or romantic attraction rather than fixed points. But navigating this spectrum can be complicated, especially when you’re also navigating a new culture.
These stories of LGBTQIA immigrants demonstrate the challenges and triumphs of crossing borders as well as sex and gender binaries.
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After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep herself and her younger sister from being deported to El Salvador. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby or as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby.
In a letter to his illiterate mother, Little Dog chronicles his coming of age as a Vietnamese immigrant and a gay man. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby or as eAudio on OverDrive/Libby.
When Patsy gets her long-coveted visa to America, it comes after years of yearning to leave Pennyfield, the beautiful but impoverished Jamaican town where she was raised. More than anything, Patsy wishes to be reunited with her oldest friend, Cicely, whose letters arrive from New York steeped in the promise of a happier life and the possible rekindling of their young love. You can also check out this title as eBook on OverDrive/Libby or as eAudio on Hoopla.
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Audre and Mabel, both young women of color from different backgrounds, fall in love and figure out how to care for each other as one of them faces a fatal illness.
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