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Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• politics
• nonfiction
• 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 Eric A. Stanley's Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• transgender
• lgbt
• politics
• nonfiction
• queer

"The existing criminal justice model poses two main questions in the face of social harm: Who did it? How can we punish them? (And increasingly, how can we make money from it?). Creating safe and heal…"

-Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

"Middle-class gay white men argued that 'gay rights' should remain a legislative issue and that 'legally sanctioned gay marriage should be a primary concern for all of us.' Kunzel charts the ways that…"

-Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

"Abolition is not some disstant future but something we create in every moment when we say no to the traps of empire and yes to the nourishing possibilities dreamed of and practiced by our ancestors a…"

-Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

"I began to notice something strange about the nature of incarceration; in particular, its imposition on the minds and bodies of the imprisoned, promoting a number of inmates to take personal responsi…"

-Eric A. Stanley, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Susan Stryker's Transgender History book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

Similar categories in Ashley Shew's Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• history
• biography
• memoir
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Similar categories in Edward Snowden's Permanent Record book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• history
• biography
• memoir
• politics
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"The government should be afraid of the people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"This was the ultimate leap of faith, in a way: I could hardly trust anyone, so I had to trust everyone."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"A little bit of math can accomplish what all the guns and barbed wire can't: a little bit of math can keep a secret."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

"The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth."

-Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• queer

"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• history
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• transgender
• nonfiction
• queer

"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• audiobook
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• queer

"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• audiobook
• history
• transgender
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• queer

"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• queer
• lgbt
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

Similar categories in Chelsea Manning's README.txt book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• audiobook
• history
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• transgender
• politics
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• queer

"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."

-Chelsea Manning, README.txt

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"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 Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"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 Bhaskar Sunkara's The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• politics
• history
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• audiobook
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Nils Melzer's The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• history
• biography
• politics
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad book and Chelsea Manning's README.txt

• transgender
• lgbt
• politics
• nonfiction
• queer