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Charis has a new book club! Beginning in January, we are excited to bring y'all The Queer Ecologies Book Club with Charis bookseller & environmentalist extraordinaire, Yarrow Koning at the helm! THIS BOOK CLUB HAS BEEN EXTENDED AND WILL GO THROUGH OCTOBER 2026. Check back in the fall to see if it will continue in 2027!This group will meet regularly in-person at Charis on the first Thursday of each month at 7pm.
About the book club:
Queer Ecologies is an emerging field that illuminates queerness in the natural world. Through a mix of non-fiction, speculative fiction, and poetry, the Queer Ecologies Book Club introduces readers to the queer, non-binary, and downright bizarre beings found all over planet Earth. Simultaneously, we consider what it means to live queerly on and practice care for this rapidly transforming planet we call home. The Queer Ecologies Book Club centers queer, trans, and gender expansive people, ideas, experiences, and ways of being, but is open to all community members. Participants are encouraged to read the month’s book before our gatherings. However, doing so is not required - come as you are, regardless of how much you’ve read! Participants are expected to treat each other with respect in all group conversations and interactions.
About our June book:
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
This exciting and groundbreaking fiction anthology showcases a number of new and emerging 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer Indigenous) writers from across Turtle Island. These visionary authors show how queer Indigenous communities can bloom and thrive through utopian narratives that detail the vivacity and strength of 2SQness throughout its plight in the maw of settler colonialism's histories.
Here, readers will discover bio-engineered AI rats, transplanted trees in space, the rise of a 2SQ resistance camp, a primer on how to survive Indigiqueerly, virtual reality applications, motherships at sea, and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time. Love after the End demonstrates the imaginatively queer Two-Spirit futurisms we have all been dreaming of since 1492.
Contributors include Darcie Little Badger, Mari Kurisato, Kai Minosh Pyle, David Alexander Robertson, and jaye simpson.
2026 Books:
- February: Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival by Maria Pinto
- March: Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
- April: Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming by Eli Clare
- May: What A Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker
- June: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indiqueer Speculative Fiction edited by Joshua Whitehead
- July: Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by Lida Maxwell
- August: Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History by Caroline Tracey
- September: Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong by Clare Follmann
- October: The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
In-person event guidelines:
- All attendees must wear a face mask.
- We will begin seating people at 6:45 PM ET.
- As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event.
If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request specific accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected] or call the store at 404-524-0304
The event is free and open to all people, but we encourage and appreciate a donation of $5-20 in support of the work of Charis Circle, our programming non-profit. Donate online at www.chariscircle.org/donate or in person at the event.
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