Category: Agender

Someday

By David Levithan

For as long as A can remember, life has meant waking up in a different person’s body every day, forced to live as that person until the day ended. A always thought there wasn’t anyone else who had a life like this.

But A was wrong. There are others.

A has already been wrestling with powerful feelings of love and loneliness. Now comes an understanding of the extremes that love and loneliness can lead to—and what it’s like to discover that you are not alone in the world.

In Someday, David Levithan takes readers further into the lives of A, Rhiannon, Nathan, and the person they may think they know as Reverend Poole, exploring more deeply the questions at the core of Every Day and Another Day: What is a soul? And what makes us human?

Representation:
The gender, sexual, and romantic identities are hard to label, since A switches bodies every day. The closest terms are A as an agender person who is attracted to girls, and Rhiannon is a cis girl who is pansexual.

Race/Ethnicity:
Since A switches bodies every day, multiple races and ethnicities are represented.

The Pros of Cons

By Alison Cherry

Publisher’s description:

Drummer Phoebe Byrd prides herself on being one of the guys, and she’s ready to prove it by kicking all their butts in the snare solo competition at the Indoor Percussion Association Convention.

Writer Vanessa Montoya-O’Callaghan has been looking forward to the WTFcon for months. Not just because of the panels and fanfiction readings but because WTFcon is where she’ll finally meet Soleil, her internet girlfriend, for the first time.

Taxidermy assistant Callie Buchannan might be good at scooping brains out of deer skulls, but that doesn’t mean it’s her passion. Since her parents’ divorce, her taxidermist father only cares about his work, and assisting him at the World Taxidermy and Fish-Carving Championships is the only way Callie knows to connect with him.

When a crazy mix-up in the hotel lobby brings the three girls together, they form an unlikely friendship against a chaotic background of cosplay, competition, and carcasses!

Representation:

Sexual orientation: MC is queer, side character is pansexual.

Gender: Side character is gender-neutral.

Race: MC is Mexican.

Disability: MC has anxiety.

The Black Veins (Dead Magic #1)

By Ashia Monet

Sixteen-year-old Blythe is one of seven Guardians: magicians powerful enough to cause worldwide panic with a snap of their fingers. But Blythe spends her days pouring latte art at her family’s coffee shop, so why should she care about having apocalyptic abilities?

She’s given a reason when magician anarchists crash into said coffee shop and kidnap her family.

Heartbroken but determined, Blythe knows she can’t save them alone. A war is brewing between two magician governments and tensions are too high. So, she packs up her family’s bright yellow Volkswagen, puts on a playlist, and embarks on a road trip across the United States to enlist the help of six strangers whose abilities are unparalleled—the other Guardians.

Representation:

Gender: nonbinary, trans, and agender side characters.

Sexual orientation: Bisexual MC. Gay, bisexual, demisexual, and asexual side characters.

Race: Black MC; Chinese, Puerto Rican, Black, and Middle Eastern side characters.

Ownvoices: Black and queer representation.

Rock and Riot

By

This is the 1950’s like you have never seen it before, slick hair, hot rides and everyone is queer!

Publishers Description:

With all the fashion and quirks of the 50’s comes the vintage queer love story that you’ve never heard before. Rock and Riot follows the tales of teenage delinquents learning about gender and sexual orientations while still maintaining their fabulous hair.

Genre: Romance, Historical Fiction

Representation:
Gender:
Cis girls: Connie, Carla, Triss, Debby
Cis boys: Frankie, Clyde, Gene, Edd, Sasha
Trans girls: Rolly
Demiboy: Sonny
Bigender: Skip
Agender: Ace
Gender Fluid: Dett

Sexuality:
Gay: Frankie
Lesbian: Connie
Bisexual: Debby, Triss, Clyde
Asexual: Carla, Edd, Ace, Dett,
Pansexual: Sonny, Skip
Demisexual: Rolly, Skip, Sasha
Gray-Asexual: Gene

Romantic Orientation:
Homoromantic: Gene
Aromantic: Edd, Dett
Panromantic: Carla, Rolly, Sasha
Demiromantic: Ace
Not mentioned in the book: Connie, Debby, Triss, Frankie, Clyde, Sonny, Skip

Race/Ethnicity:
White: Carla, Rolly, Frankie, Gene, Ace, Sonny, Sasha
Black: Connie, Dett
Not mentioned: Triss, Clyde, Debby, Edd, and Skip

Religion:
Christianity: Carla

Trigger Warnings: homophobia/homomisa, transphobia/transmisia, internalized homophobia/homomisia  

Additional Notes: This is a webcomic and is free online http://rockandriotcomic.com/post/115020071048

This entry was written by Sarah Olson. Follow Sarah on Instagram @pixie_librarian

Ownvoices: Author and artist is queer.

 

 

Institute of Evil versus Heroes Academy (IEvsHA) 

By Cirkadia

This book is a juvenile fantasy novel written in small chapters on Wattpad.  The main character, know as “Nameless”, is a teenager that ends studying at the Institute of Evil thanks to a trap in an on-line game and a perfidious end-user license agreement (EULA) . There she finds a lot of very different characters of every kind, genre, orientation, etc.   while at the same time, she would find who she truly is. She also finds that “villain” and “hero” are used more as a political label and propaganda.

The book is written with a dark sense of humor.  The main character is asexual (and there is one scene where another character explains it), there are others that falls on the LGTBQIAP+ spectrum and the book has a very strong feminist message.

Publisher’s Description:
Ella no quiere estar en el Instituto del Mal, pero no tiene otra salvación que ser una alumna modelo.
Una historia de supevillanos y superhéroes todavía en edad escolar.

English translation:
She don’t desire to stay in the Evil Institute, but she does not have an other choice besides being the model student.
A history of teenage super-villains and superheros.

Genre: Action/Contemporary fantasy

Representation:
Note: From @ZardoZ89 who wrote this entry:  There are some characters that are confirmed by the author as trans, demisexual or gray asexual, but that not are evident at this point (planed sequels and spin-offs…) or that saying it now, would be a spoiler. So, I put a “At least X” in these cases. Same with the ethnicity.

Gender:
Cis girls: Nameless, Roca Eisenblut, Sica Morilec, Herilane, Nova, Furia, Mantis, Veda, Violet Kill, Tess Bloodmist, etc
Cis boys: Ludo Kahos, Jeff, Full, Foster, Killgore, Jack, Sinister, Bester, etc
Trans girls: At least two…
Trans boys: At least one…
Agender: Liss
Gender Fluid: Zack Darkheart

Sexuality:
Lesbian: Roca Eisenblut
Bisexual: Zack Darkheart, Foster, Furia
Asexual: Nameless, other…
Demisexual: At least one…
Gray-Asexual: At least one…

Romantic Orientation:
Not mentioned in the book.

Race/Ethnicity:
Not mentioned explicitly in the book.

Trigger Warnings:  Kidnapping.

Additional Notes:
– From the author: “The truth is that in IEvsHA, unless it is specified, better to think that all people are queer”.
-Contains sex/kink scenes.
-Written in Spanish, not translated yet to English.
-Totally free on Wattpad platform. https://www.wattpad.com/story/97473466-institute-of-evil-versus-heroes-academy-ievsha
-This entry was written and recommend by @ZardoZ89.

Ownvoices: asexuality

Chameleon Moon

By RoAnna Sylver

Publisher’s Description:

The city of Parole is burning. Like Venice slips into the sea, Parole crumbles into fire. No one can get out: Eye in the Sky keeps the city quarantined, trapping those with supernatural powers inside.
Inside, Regan seeks to regain his lost memory. He winds up with Evelyn Calliope, local hero, the centre of a tightly-knit group of queer friends and family who stick together as they slowly unravel the secret to Parole’s ever-burning fire

Representation:
Gender:
Cis boys: Regan
Cis girls: Rose
Trans woman: Evelyn
Agender/Nonbinary: Zilch

Sexual and Romantic Orientation:
Regan is biromantic and asexual
Evelyn is queer and homoromanticz
Rose is queer and homoromantic
Zilch is bisexual and aromantic

Race/Ethnicity:
Rose is Black
Evenlyn is a PoC

Trigger Warnings: Several of the characters deal with PTSD and Depression.

Additional Notes: First in a series, Regan has anxiety and memory loss.   Rose has prosthetic legs.

Ownvoices:  Asexual, Memory loss

The White Renegade

By Claudie Arseneault

Publisher’s Description:

Between bisexuality and albinism, Seraphin always felt like an outsider in his own town. He finally finds companionship in Alex, an agender and aromantic teenager who interns over the summer. With him he learns to trust himself and his instincts. It leads Seraphin to leave his town and join the army invading his country, but when his squad is ordered to raid his hometown, Seraphin finds his new life may come at the price of his old.

Genre: Science Fiction

Representation:
Gender:
Cis Boys: Seraphin
Agender: Alex

Sexual and Romantic Orientation:
Alex is bisexual and aromantic.  Seraphin is bisexual and biromantic.

Race/Ethnicity:
Seraphin is White
Alex is Black

Trigger Warnings: From the author, “Murder, abuse, firearms, fire, gunfights, casual misgendering, dead bodies.”

Additional Notes: Seraphin has albanism.

Ownvoices:  Aromantic

Assassins: Nemesis (Assassins #2)

By Erica Cameron

Publisher’s Description: 

“Being orphaned and almost kidnapped in the space of a week sent Blake Marks into hiding. For months, Blake tries to help the Calvers—a family of vigilante bodyguards—investigate the people behind the hit on Blake’s father, Isaac, but then the safehouse is compromised. Just as hired thugs storm the house to grab Blake, Daelan Calver dives into the fight, getting them both out alive.

Hiding isn’t an option anymore, but hit squads, under-the-table deals, and international espionage? Blake has no idea how to handle any of it, not even with Daelan’s family there to play teachers. The one thing Blake knows for sure is that there are only two options: keep up with the Calvers or get out of their way.

But even with the Calvers’ help and the glimmer of a possible future with Daelan giving Blake hope, chances of survival keep shrinking. The man who ordered the hit on Isaac may be dead, but his partner is viciously cold-blooded, and her plans could change the course of history. Blake wants to finish what Isaac started, but it’s looking like someone is going to die before this is over. And that someone might be Blake.”

Genre: Thriller

Representation:
Gender:
Blake is canon intersex with partial androgen sensitivity syndrome and gender fluid but mentally agender

Sexual and Romantic Orientation
Blake is panromantic graysexual

Race/Ethnicity:
Blake is mixed race

Disability:
Blake has severe allergies
Side character with severe anxiety

Religion:
Side character who is Muslim and wears a hijab

Additional Notes:

Every Day

By David Levithan

Every day A wakes up in a different body. This has never bothered them  until one day they wake up in the body of of Justin and fall in love with Justin’s girlfriend Rhiannon. Now, A will do anything to get back to Rhiannon and reconnect. But will Rhiannon believe them? And even if she does, can someone truly love a person who doesn’t have permanent physical form? Complicating A’s quest is an evil preacher out to find them.

Publisher’s Description: 

“Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.

It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.”

Genre: Contemporary, Fantasy

Representation:
The gender, sexual, and romantic identities are hard to label, since A switches bodies every day. The closest terms are A as an agender person who is attracted to girls, and Rhiannon is a cis girl who is pansexual.

Race/Ethnicity:
Since A switches bodies every day, multiple races and ethnicities are represented. Rhiannon is white.

Additional Notes:
This book’s ending is very fatmisic/fatphobic.

Vanilla

By Billy Merrell

Hunter and Vanilla have been boyfriends since middle school, but as they grow up they discover that Hunter is allosexual while Vanilla is a sex-repulsed asexual and this puts a strain on their relationship. Vanilla explores the aftermath of a gay couple breaking up.

Publisher’s Description:
A bold, groundbreaking novel about coming out, coming into your own, and coming apart.

Hunter and Van become boyfriends before they’re even teenagers, and stay a couple even when adolescence intervenes. But in high school, conflict arises — mostly because Hunter is much more comfortable with the sex part of sexual identity. As the two boys start to realize that loving someone doesn’t guarantee they will always be with you, they find out more about their own identities — with Hunter striking out on his own while Van begins to understand his own asexuality.

In poems that are romantic and poems that are heartbreaking, Vanilla explores all the flavors of the spectrum — and how romance and love aren’t always the same thing.

Genre: Contemporary

Representation:
Gender:
Cis girls: Red
Cis boys: Vanilla, Hunter, Abercrombie
Agender: Angel

Sexuality:
Gay: Hunter, Abercrombie
Lesbian: Red
Asexual: Vanilla
Pansexual: Angel

Romantic Orientation:
Homoromantic: Hunter, Vanilla, Abercrombie, Red
Panromantic: Angel

Race/Ethnicity:
Not mentioned.

Trigger Warnings:
Aphobia/Amisia

Additional Notes:
There are numerous reviews by asexual readers who found the depiction of asexuality in this book harmful.

Ownvoices: Ownvoices for gay representation.

Ending: Unhappy ending.