Deadnaming – Trigger Warning Database

Dear Mothman by Robin Gow

Halfway through sixth grade, Noah’s best friend and the only other trans boy in his school, Lewis, passed away in a car accident. Adventurous and curious, Lewis was always bringing a new paranormal story to share with Noah. Together they daydreamed about cryptids and shared discovering their genders and names. After Lewis’s death, lonely and yearning for someone who could understand him like Lewis once did, Noah starts writing letters to Mothman, wondering if he would understand how Noah feels and also looking for evidence of Mothman’s existence in the… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Transphobia mentioned, including accidental deadnaming and misgendering
Grief & loss depiction (theme)
Death of a friend in a car accident (off-page)
Bullying

The Transition by Logan-Ashley Kisner

Hunter’s life is at a turning point: After years of fighting his father for it, he’s gotten top surgery. He’s finally starting to feel comfortable in his own skin . . . only to be attacked by a strange creature in his backyard. The encounter should kill him, but his best friend Gabe intervenes, and Hunter is able to walk away from the incident with his life—and new body—mostly intact. Still, something isn’t right. First, his wounds are healing quickly—too quickly. Then there are the feverish nightmares, the sudden return of his period, and his teeth . . . they’re falling out of his head… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Transphobia, including deadnaming & hate crimes
Self-harm & discussions of suicide
Panic attacks (on-page)
Blood & gore depiction and needles
Graphic animal death (birds, coyote)

Sasha Masha by Agnes Borinsky

Alex feels like he is in the wrong body. His skin feels strange against his bones. And then comes Tracy, who thinks he’s adorably awkward, who wants to kiss him, who makes him feel like a Real Boy. But it is not quite enough. Something is missing. As Alex grapples with his identity, he finds himself trying on dresses and swiping on lipstick in the quiet of his bedroom. He meets Andre, a gay boy who is beautiful and unafraid to be who he is. Slowly, Alex begins to realize: maybe his name isn’t Alex at all. Maybe it’s Sasha Masha.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Transphobia & deadnaming
Coming out themes

Safe Place by Jay Northcote

Where do you go when your home is no longer a safe place? Alex is about to turn eighteen and is firmly in the closet. He’s been biding his time, waiting to escape to uni, and finally come out away from the oppressive influence of his homophobic father. When he flunks his exams, he’s stuck in the small town of Porthladock—and what’s worse is that he’s working for his dad. The only thing that makes it bearable is Cam. Cam’s comfortable with his bisexuality, but he doesn’t broadcast it. Young, free, and single, his social life revolves… Read more

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Transphobia & deadnaming
Adult-minor relationship & dubious consent scenario (‘dubcon’)*
Alcohol consumption

Context : Relationship between a 17-year-old, who turns 18 during of the book, and a 23-year-old.

Alien Quarantine Rescue by Robin Lovett

I haven’t touched anyone, let alone slept with anyone, since the Beerona Virus killed half of Earth’s population. This virus mutates faster than scientists can create a vaccine for it. I’ve lost all my family and all hope of seeing my friends again. Until a naked, silver alien comes for me. The only words he knows are “Give antibodies” and “Mine.” He could be lying. He could have Beerona. I could be dead in three days after the virus eats me from the inside out. But I haven’t had sex in so long, and he’s as strong as a gladiator. , as beautiful as Adonis, and did I mention his… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Deadnaming
Slut-shaming
Abortion recounted
Pregnancy
Heart condition
Pandemic
Medical procedures
Gun violence

Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the “prince” Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman’s body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Slavery
Homophobia
Transphobia, deadnaming & misgendering
Rape mentioned
Infidelity
Self-sacrifice
Pregnancy & childbirth
Blood depiction & blood-drinking
Ritualistic cannibalism
Murder
Immolation
Drowning
Physical assault
Animal sacrifice

Beating Heart Baby by Lio Min

When artistic and sensitive Santi arrives at his new high school, everyone in the wildly talented marching band welcomes him with open arms. Everyone except for the prickly, proud musical prodigy Suwa, who doesn’t think Santi has what it takes to be in the band.But Santi and Suwa share painful pasts, and when they open up to each other, a tentative friendship begins. And soon, that friendship turns into something more… Will their fresh start rip at the seams as Suwa seeks out a solo spotlight, and both boys come to terms with what it’ll take, and what they’ll have to let go, to realize their dreams?

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & transphobia. including deadnaming (off-page) & forced outing recounted
Physical & emotional child abuse & abandonment
Anxiety & panic attacks
Gender dysphoria & body dysmorphia discussed (on-page)
Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
Grief & loss depiction
Deth of a parent recounted
Near-drowning incident recounted
Bullying

Ash’s Cabin by Jen Wang

Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash’s age are more interested in pop stars and popularity contests than in fighting for change. Even Ash’s family seems to be sleepwalking through life. The only person who ever seemed to get Ash was their Grandpa Edwin. Before he died, he used to talk about building a secret cabin, deep in the California wilderness. Did he ever build it? What if it’s still there, waiting for him to come back…or for Ash to find it? To Ash, that maybe-mythical cabin is starting to feel like the perfect place for a fresh start… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Coming out themes & deadnaming
Death of a grandparent recounted
Blood & injury depiction
Emesis
Animal injury (dog) from a bear attack (on-page)

Just Might Work by Katia Rose

Dane Marner’s aunt is obsessed with soul mates. As a self-proclaimed ‘cosmically guided matchmaker,’ she’s played every card in the deck trying to set Dane up with the perfect match she’s found. The problem? The ‘perfect’ match is Evangeline Hudson. Dane and Evangeline rent rooms in Dane’s eccentric aunt’s house, but that’s where their similarities end. Dane is a drifter who freewheels from one odd job to the next, and Evangeline is an overachieving undergrad with a ten year plan so detailed it reads like an… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Misgendering & deadnaming mentioned
Parental divorce
Bullying mentioned

Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

In the late 90s, five queer kids, whose parents want them “fixed,” find themselves thrown together at a secretive “tough love” camp deep in the scorching Utah desert. Tormented and worked to the point of collapse by hardline religious zealots intent on straightening them out, they slowly become aware that something in the mountains north of the camp is speaking to them in their dreams, and that the children who return home to their families have… changed.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & racism
Child abuse
Sexual assault
Deadnaming
Suicide & self-harm mentioned