The small queer press is a continuous book club at The Pond aiming to uplift queer published works from smaller -mostly indie- presses focusing on diverse stories of LGBTQIA+ life and people.
The book club runs in 2-3 month cycles, each quarter focusing on a different press. Started in 2025, we are continuing this book club throughout 2026 as well.
The Small Queer Press Book Club
no reader commitment!
read the book, or start reading it
show up to the discussion
no sign ups needed
you can go to one, or some, or all
book club is held monthly
2-3 month cycles highlighting a different queer press
the books are available at 10% discount at The Pond
the books are in english, mostly fiction
January - “Worthy of the Event” by Vivian Blaxell
February - “Persona” by Aoife Josie Clements
March - “Unsex Me Here” by Aurora Mattia
April - “Neotenica” by Joon Oluchi Lee
May - “Phototaxis” by Olivia Tapiero
June - “Atoms Never Touch” by Micha Cárdenas
July - “We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories” by Margaret Killjoy
August - “Above Us the Sea” by Ania Card
September - “A Visitation of Spirits” by Randall Kenan
October - “No Body No Crime” by Tess Sharpe
November - “Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)” by Hazel Jane Plante
December - “The Sacred Heart Motel” by Grace Kwan
2026 Selections
January 2026 book club
January 2026 book club
Set against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai’i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind. In seven devastatingly intelligent parts, her essay covers a vast range in time and space — from the arson of a Japanese temple to a transformative encounter with a coral reef, from Nietzsche and Hegel to Indigenous metaphysics, from a perplexing relationship with a beautiful man to the unknowable minds of animals. Fleshy and philosophical, searching and exalted, utterly distinctive and assured.
“Worthy of the Event: An Essay” by Vivian Blaxell
Sunday
25th of January
17:00 - 18:30
Poppelgade 6, kld.
the books we read in 2025
LOOKING BACK AT
February - “Perfect Little Angels” by Vincent Anioke
March - “The Tiger Flu” by Larissa Lai
April - “Crip Kinship” by Shayda Kafai
May - “Romeo & Seahorse” by Nikolaj Tange Lange
June - “Lákíríboto” by Ayodele Olofintuade
July - “Bone Horn” by Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
August - “The Summer of Dead Birds” by Ali Liebegott
September - “Skye Papers” by Jamika Ajalon
October - “We Were Witches” by Ariel Gore
November - “Noema” by Dael Akkerman
December - “H: a trash novel” by R Merey
In 2025 we explored the works published by Arsenal Pulp Press, Cipher Press, Amethyst Editions, & tRaum Books.