The Plural Archive & Public

Created and curated by Ri

Positive or neutral mentions of plurality/multiplicity/being a system in literature. No negative and bigoted representation, I’m sick of it (and you should be too).

This list encompasses not only books written by plural authors about their experiences, but also fiction books with positive plural representation – it’s our little side-project to save any bits of plural culture we can find, so we decided it’s good to have everything available here (at least until we reach the point where the list grows too big, in which case we’ll split it in two; for now it’s okay the way it is). Check the notes to see if the book in question is what you’re looking for.

As a sidenote: there is absolutely no way for us to check if the authors of fiction books listed here are plural or singlets, especially considering that for those who are plural, it could be dangerous …

  1. Looking Inside by 

    Looking Inside gives the reader an intimate peek into one woman's incredible journey with multiple personalities. In this amazing book, …

    Ri says:

    a collection of poetic prose from the journals of a woman with DID. a book about loving and supporting each other.

    some outdated language is used since the book was published in 2001.

  2. A Memory Called Empire by 

    Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous …

    Ri says:

    fiction with plural rep: the protagonist "gains" a headmate.

  3. The Chromatic Fantasy by 

    Jules is a trans man trapped in his life as a nun. The devil that the convent guards against offers …

    Ri says:

    fiction with plural rep: the protagonist has multiple conversations with another version of himself who could be considered a headmate. (I am not taking the devil into consideration here, as that counts as possession, not plurality. There is another Jules hanging out in our Jules’s head.)

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