The small queer press is a continuous 2025 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 will run in 2-3 month cycles, each quarter focusing on a different press.
In February through April we are exploring the works from Arsenal Pulp Press. For April we are reading "Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid" by Shayda Kafai:
Crip Kinship explores the radical art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area performance project centering queer disability justice. Through performance, they reimagine what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming bodyminds of color can do—rewriting oppression and offering lessons for collective survival.
Grounded in disability justice, the book examines Sins Invalid’s work on crip beauty, sexuality, digital kinship, and liberated spaces, showing how their activism empowers and moves us toward collective liberation.
Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada, printing literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry; books on social issues; gender studies; LGBTQ2S+ and BIPOC literature; and books in translation. Their interest lies within literature that engages and challenges readers, and which asks probing questions about the world around us. (https://arsenalpulp.com/)
*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
- facebook events will be available
- the books are available at The Pond
- the books are in english, mostly fiction
If you want to join the bookclub remotely, or track your reading for these books by joining the Storygraph challenge for funsies.