19 Best queer books like A Dream of a Woman by Casey Plett

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Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• fiction
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Jia Qing Wilson-Yang's Small Beauty book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• literary fiction
• transgender
• canada
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• audiobook
• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• literary fiction
• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• transgender
• lgbt
• canada
• anthologies
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Similar categories in Aurora Mattia's The Fifth Wound book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• fiction
• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

Similar categories in Jackie Ess's Darryl book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• literary fiction
• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I'm not gay, let alone trans. That's like next level gay."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Maybe every guy like me just needs a best friend with a big cock."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"Hannibal Lecter is fucking my wife. Ok. I hope he doesn’t eat her."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

"You live vicariously through celebrities, I live vicariously through the guys who fuck my wife. But sure, ok, I'm the weird one."

-Jackie Ess, Darryl

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• literary fiction
• transgender
• lgbt
• canada
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Similar categories in Jeanne Thornton's Summer Fun book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that."

-Jeanne Thornton, Summer Fun

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• audiobook
• literary fiction
• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• transgender
• lgbt
• short stories
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• lgbt
• transgender
• queer

"Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"If the aliens do show up, I hope they’ll see people they want to save. Friends and magnificent sluts, smashing the walls of the prisons and burning all the money, running around with signs that decla…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"Anyway, you never get there, you just keep going. Things are repeated, and sometimes we mistake the fact of their repetition for their value. It can make it seem like we aren’t supposed to change, or…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

"The best version of me isn't the person who falls in love, but the person who takes love squarely for what it is, as an occasion to know someone else, to learn about their desires, to be each a bette…"

-T. Fleischmann, Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through

Similar categories in Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese book and Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman

• literary fiction
• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese