Intersession Hours from Wednesday, May 8 - Sunday, June 2
Monday - Friday: 9am to 5pm
Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED
Starting Monday, June 3rd - Friday, August 9th, the library will have the following onsite and remote hours of operation:
Monday - Thursday: Onsite 9am to 5pm, Remote 5 to 9pm
Friday: Onsite 9am to 5pm, Remote 5 to 6pm
Saturday: Remote 9am to 6pm
Sunday: Remote 1 to 9pm
The library will be closed on Wednesday, June 19th in honor of Juneteenth.
Learn more about this important celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States by clicking on the Juneteenth Resources tab at the left. Be sure to also check out our Racial Justice and Anti-Racist Resources Guide by clicking the tab at the left.
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Celebrate PRIDE month with the University Library, Student Counseling Center, LGBTQ+ Task Force, and Coalition of A&M-SA who have all come together to provide recommended hard copy and virtual readings focused on LGBTQ+ social justice activism, advocacy and awareness. A few of the readings are shown below; however, to see a full list, please click on the Pride Month Resources tab on the left. Also be sure to visit the library's LGBTQ+ Studies Research Guide for an entry point to resources that focus primarily on various aspects of LGBTQ+ studies. The guide provides access to a selected list of resources pertaining to LGBTQ+ issues and interests and presents materials available through the University Library and on the open web.
The University Library abides by the American Library Association’s Code of Ethics and is therefore committed to intellectual freedom and the freedom to access information. If you have any questions or concerns, please speak with one of our staff.
Please note that the suggested readings have been identified to raise awareness on LGBTQ+ issues. If you are interested in exploring other ways to access LGBTQ+ resources, please contact Texas A&M University – San Antonio’s Student Counseling Center at (210) 784-1331 or stucounseling@tamusa.edu for psychological wellness. For students who are interested in joining the Coalition please contact their organization through JagSync or via email at lgbtqacoaltion@gmail.com.
Charlie Lamonte is thirteen years old, queer, black, and questioning what was once a firm belief in God. So naturally, she's spending a week of her summer vacation stuck at an all-white Christian youth backpacking camp. As the journey wears on and the rhetoric wears thin, she can't help but poke holes in the pious obliviousness of this storied sanctuary with little regard for people like herself . . . or her fellow camper, Sydney.
As graphic artist Rhea Ewing neared college graduation in 2012, they became consumed by the question: What is gender? This obsession sparked a quest in which they eagerly approached both friends and strangers in their quiet Midwest town for interviews to turn into comics. A decade later, this project exploded into a sweeping portrait of the intricacies of gender expression with interviewees from all over the country. Questions such as ?How do you Identify? produced fiercely honest stories of dealing with adolescence, taking hormones, changing pronouns, and how these experiences can differ, often drastically, depending on culture, race, and religion. Amidst beautifully rendered scenes emerges Ewing's own story of growing up in rural Kentucky, grappling with their identity as a teenager, and ultimately finding themselves through art and by creating something this very fine. Tender and wise, inclusive and inviting, Fine is an indispensable account for anyone eager to define gender in their own terms.
I know I'm not gay. Gay boys like other boys. I hate boys. They're mean, and scary, and they're always destroying something or saying something dumb or both. I hate that word. Gay. It makes me feel . . . unsafe. It's the summer between middle school and high school, and Aiden Navarro is away at camp. Everyone's going through changes--but for Aiden, the stakes feel higher. As he navigates friendships, deals with bullies, and spends time with Elias (a boy he can't stop thinking about), he finds himself on a path of self-discovery and acceptance. Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in this debut graphic novel, telling a difficult story with humor, compassion, and love.
A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first love. Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl. Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore. But Keltie has some secrets of her own. And as the girls start to fall in love, everything they're each trying to hide will find its way to the surface...whether Morgan is ready or not.
June is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Month. The library has lots of resources in our collection related to this topic. For more information on them, click on the PTSD Resources tab at the left.
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