06/08/2025
Have you ever noticed our identity bookmarks!? It helps make our store hella colorful— but more importantly, our identity bookmarks help people find the representation they are looking for! Here’s a quick rundown of how we use them 🏳️🌈
Bookmarks are used either to indicate the identity of main characters, the author, or the main love story (for example a book featuring a q***r woman may be marked with the le***an flag if her love interest is a woman even if she doesn’t identify specifically as a le***an).
Right now, we have these identity bookmarks:
❤️ Le***an
🧡 Gay man
💛 Bisexual
💚 Transgender
💙 Intersex
💜 Asexual
🤎 Aromantic
🖤 Nonbinary
❤️ Polyamory
🧡 Disability
💛 Autism/Neurodiversity
💚 Indigenous author
💙 BIPOC author
Thank you to all our lovely staff and volunteers who help us categorize and tag books so that you can find the representation you want!!
Image Description - 1 A shelf of books at Under the Umbrella with identity bookmarks sticking out, including le***an, bisexual, polyamory, BIPOC, and more.
2 A bunch of colorful q***r books piled on top of each other, each with multiple identity bookmarks sticking out of them.
3 A graphic labeled ‘Identity Bookmarks.’ It features all the flags and identities listed above. It reads, “We use identity bookmarks to help you find the representation you are looking for! Here is a helpful cheat sheet for what identities we currently have and what they are.”
