Celebrating LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa

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Celebrating LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa

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Celebrating LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa

Simie Simpson crafts a reading list of recent books by Aotearoa’s LGBTQIA writers to mark Auckland Pride and her final year as Chair of samesame but different the LGBTQIA+ literary festival.

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Simie Simpson crafts a reading list of recent books by Aotearoa’s LGBTQIA writers to mark Auckland Pride and her final year as Chair of samesame but different the LGBTQIA+ literary festival.

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Cover of Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa New Zealand

Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa New Zealand

An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa New Zealand

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$60.00 NZD

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anomalia

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Echidna

Cover of Head Girl

Head Girl

by

$25.00 NZD

Cover of Short Films

Short Films

by

$25.00 NZD

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Cover of Surgeon's Brain

Cover of The Artist

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i’m still growing

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$30.00 NZD

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Talia

by

$30.00 NZD

Cover of Honouring Our Ancestors: Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-Being

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Cover of The Queen's Wife

Cover of One of Them

Cover of Faking It: My Life in Transition

Cover of Straight Up

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Downfall

by

$14.99 NZD

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Na Viro

by

$35.00 NZD

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Tauhou

by

$30.00 NZD

Cover of How to Loiter In a Turf War: A Novel

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Cover of Amma

Cover of Rere Atu Taku Poi!: Let My Poi Fly!

Cover of Nga Kupu Wero

Cover of Te Awa o Kupu

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Spoiled Fruit: Queer Poetry from Aotearoa: 2023

Queer Poetry from Aotearoa

by

$30.00 NZD

$25.00 NZD

by

$25.00 NZD

7

Super Model Minority: 2022

by

$24.99 NZD

8

Surgeon's Brain

by

$25.00 NZD

9

The Artist

by

$30.00 NZD

12

Honouring Our Ancestors: Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-Being

Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-Being

by

$35.00 NZD

13

Articulations

by

14

The Queen's Wife

by

$40.00 NZD

15

One of Them

by

$36.99 NZD

16

Faking It: My Life in Transition

My Life in Transition

by

$38.00 NZD

17

Straight Up

by

$36.99 NZD

19

Robert Lord Diaries

by

$45.00 NZD

21

Home Theatre

by

$30.00 NZD

22

Dream Girl

by

$30.00 NZD

24

How to Loiter In a Turf War: A Novel

A Novel

by

$28.00 NZD

kitten

by

$30.00 NZD

26

Amma

by

$37.99 NZD

Rere Atu Taku Poi!: Let My Poi Fly!

Let My Poi Fly!

by

$22.99 NZD

28

Nga Kupu Wero

by

$37.00 NZD

29

Te Awa o Kupu

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$37.00 NZD