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• Fat Ham

  Ijames, James,

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  Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South. Juicy is a queer, Southern college kid, already…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

  Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616

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  The play that inspired Fat Ham

• Hamlet, Prince of Robots

  Wehm, M. Darusha, 1975-

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  A beat-by-beat retelling of the Shakespeare classic, Hamlet, Prince of Robots grapples with conscience, ambition, and pain, and what it means to be, or not to be, human

• All Boys Aren't Blue

  a Memoir-manifesto

  Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985-

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  In a series of personal essays, journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia.

• Black. Queer. Southern. Women

  An Oral History

  Johnson, E. Patrick

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  Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Go Tell It on the Mountain

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,

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  "James Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935."

• Rage

  on Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It

  Fabian Brathwaite, Lester,

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  " A darkly comedic exploration of Blackness, queerness, and the American Dream, at a time when creative anger feels like the best response to inequality"

• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

  Stoppard, Tom,

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  "Hamlet" as told from the worm's-eye view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare's play.

• Queer as All Get Out

  10 People Who've Inspired Me

  Criswell, Shelby,

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  Follow the daily life of one queer artist from Texas as they introduce us to the lives of ten extraordinary people. The author shares their life as a genderqueer person, living in the American South, revealing their own personal struggle for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fat Ham | Portland Center Stage

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  A week after Juicy’s father dies, he finds himself at a backyard barbecue celebrating the marriage of his mother and uncle—sound familiar? James…