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Queer Book Club

Are you interested in talking about LGBTQIA+ books and issues?  Join the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program faculty and the GSRC for a casual book club discussion on LGBTQIA+ literature. Sign-ups will open at the end of fall and winter quarter for the book club in the following quarter. Queer Book Club is only held in Winter Quarter and Spring Quarter. Contact gsrc@northwestern.edu for details or questions.


Spring Book Club

Join us for the Spring Queer Book Club Book! Sign-up to join us for the discussion and receive a free copy of the book if you need one! Voting on the Spring Book will begin mid-winter quarter and will be posted in student newsletters and the GSRC's instagram.

Spring '24 Book: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

Discussion Date: Monday April 14th 

Discussion Location: GSRC Boardroom-Evanston Campus

Sign-up to attend: Sign-up Today


Winter Book Club

Join us for the Winter Queer Book Club Book! Sign-up to join us for the discussion and receive a free copy of the book if you need one! Voting on the Winter Book will begin mid-fall quarter and will be posted in the GSRC newsletter.

Winter '25 Book: Tomboyland: Essays by Melissa Faliveno

Discussion Date: Monday, January 27th 6pm-7:30pm

Discussion Location: In-person on the Evanston campus

Sign-up to attend:  Closed

Past Reads!

Winter '25 Book: Tomboyland: Essays by Melissa Faliveno

Spring '24 Book: Mercy by Ian Haramaki

Winter 24: All the Hometowns You Can't Stay Away From by Izzy Wasserstein

Spring 23: This is how you Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohatar

Winter 23: She who became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan

Spring 22: The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar

Winter 22: The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya

Spring 21: Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

Winter 21: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) By Hazel Jane Plante