🕯️ Trans Day of Remembrance — An AQ Books Reflection 🕯️

November 20

At AQ Books, we tell loud stories, queer stories, messy stories, healing stories — but today, we pause the chaos and hold space for the ones whose stories were cut short.

Trans Day of Remembrance is not a Hallmark moment. It’s not cute. It’s not something you “post and move on” from.

It’s a day that asks us to look directly at the truth: trans lives are taken by hate, by ignorance, by silence, and by systems that should protect them — but don’t.

And yet, every year, our trans siblings remain some of the fiercest, funniest, most brilliant souls walking this earth. Truly the definition of indestructible vibes.

Today, we honor:

✨ The names we know.

✨ The names we don’t.

✨ The lives that deserved more chapters.

✨ The joy, brilliance, and magic that could’ve filled them.

We also honor those who are still here — writing, living, loving, transitioning, fighting, thriving, choosing themselves every single day. Your courage is the kind of plot twist that inspires entire universes. You are not a side note in someone else’s book; you are the main character, period.

At AQ Books, we believe:

• Trans lives are sacred.

• Trans stories deserve the front shelf, not the footnotes.

• Trans joy is revolutionary.

• Trans grief deserves to be witnessed — not ignored.

• Trans safety is non-negotiable.

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To the authors, readers, creators, parents of trans kids, and every trans person who finds themselves in our orbit:

We see you. We stand with you. We fight beside you.

And to the ones we lost —

🕯️ We carry your names.

🕯️ We carry your light.

🕯️ We carry the promise to build a world where no one has to fear being exactly who they are.

May their memories be a blessing — and may our actions be the real tribute.

— August Quinn Books

Where every story deserves to live out loud.