26 must-read queer books like Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark

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Reverse Cowgirl

By: McKenzie Wark

4.12

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were …

If you liked the queer plot in Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark , here is a list of 26 books like this:

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1. À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

By: Hervé Guibert

3.98

Format: 282 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«J'ai eu le sida pendant trois mois. Plus exactement, j'ai cru pendant trois mois que j'étais conda… read more

Similar categories in Hervé Guibert's À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • queer
  • lgbt
"Muzil passa une matinée à l'hôpital pour faire des examens, il me raconta à quel point le corps, il l'avait oublié, lancé dans les circuits médicaux, perd toute identité, ne reste plus qu'un paquet d…"

-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

"maintenant qu'il connaissait cette douleur Muzil la craignait par-dessus tout, ça se lisait désormais dans son oeil la panique d'une souffrance qui n'est plus maîtrisée à l'intérieur du corps mais pr…"

-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

"Dans la cour de l'hôpital éclairée par ce soleil de juin qui devenait la pire injure au malheur, je compris, pour la première fois car quand Stéphane l'avait dit je n'avais pas voulu le croire, que M…"

-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

"Je n'ai jamais si peu souffert que depuis que je sais que j'ai le sida, je suis très attentig aux manifestations de la progression du virus, il me semble connaître la cartographie de ses colonisation…"

-Hervé Guibert, À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie

Cover of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano

2. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

By: Julia Serano

4.26

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • 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

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3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

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4. A Safe Girl to Love

By: Casey Plett

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar … read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
Cover of I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext by Kathy Acker, McKenzie Wark, John Kinsella, Matias Viegener

5. I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext

By: Kathy Acker , McKenzie Wark , John Kinsella , Matias Viegener

3.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Kathy Acker's I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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6. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • feminism
  • gender
  • queer
  • lgbt
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7. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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8. I Love Dick

By: Chris Kraus , Eileen Myles , Joan Hawkins

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears awa… read more

Similar categories in Chris Kraus's I Love Dick book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • feminism

9. Aliens & Anorexia

By: Chris Kraus

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love to me. Belief is a technology for sof… read more

Similar categories in Chris Kraus's Aliens & Anorexia book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

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10. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

Similar categories in Cookie Mueller's Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer

11. Chelsea Girls

By: Eileen Myles

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age n… read more

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12. Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era

By: Paul B. Preciado , Bruce Benderson

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erec… read more

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13. Lote

By: Shola von Reinhold

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Solitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright … read more

Similar categories in Shola von Reinhold's Lote book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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14. Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

By: Jeremy Atherton Lin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York … read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Atherton Lin's Gay Bar: Why We Went Out book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Gay is the opium of the people."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"It used to be: We are everywhere. Now it’s: We are everything."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"We became a different kind of wallflower—not shrinking violets but judgmental pansies."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

"I was under the impression I was always late to the party, but in fact I may not have been invited."

-Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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15. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • 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

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16. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of I Wished by Dennis Cooper

17. I Wished

By: Dennis Cooper

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

“I started writing books about and for my friend George Miles because whenever I would speak about … read more

Similar categories in Dennis Cooper's I Wished book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • queer
  • lgbt
"When everyone you know is either very far away from you or hides, you find someone dead to love."

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"The fact that even innovative art grows cordial over time is a catastrophe that makes groundbreaking young musicians with drinking problems for good reasons know they can’t be gods with giant amps de…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt that when I’d wished to die, I was being who I really was, sans interference from the world or from the priorities and hopes that had polluted me through other people’s minor needs for me or f…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

"I felt as though my wish for death contained a kind of logic that I couldn’t access with my usual overly protective thoughts. That, prior to then, I’d been a kind of actor or self-hypnotist, not just…"

-Dennis Cooper, I Wished

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18. Play Boy

By: Constance Debré

3.25

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

" J'ai même pas osé mettre la langue la première fois que j'ai embrassé une fille. C'était après La… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Play Boy book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • queer
  • lgbt
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19. Love Me Tender

By: Constance Debré

3.87

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

« Je ne vois pas pourquoi l’amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autr… read more

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Love Me Tender book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • feminism
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Je ne suis pas une mère. Bien sûr que non. Qui voudrait l'être ? A part celles qui ont tout raté. Qui ont tellement échoué dans tout qu'elles n'ont trouvé que ce statut pour se venger du monde. Il y …"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

"Je ne vois pas pourquoi l'amour entre une mère et un fils ne serait pas exactement comme les autres amours. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas cesser de s'aimer. Pourquoi on ne pourrait pas rompre. Je ne vo…"

-Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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20. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
Cover of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor

21. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"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

Cover of Un apartamento en Urano by Paul B. Preciado

22. Un apartamento en Urano

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Urano, el gigante helado, es el planeta más frío del sistema solar, y también un dios de la mitolog… read more

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Un apartamento en Urano book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Travel translates the process of change, as if external movement were trying to articulate internal nomadism."

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Não tenho alma e não tenho corpo. Sou o cosmos. Tenho um apartamento em Urano, o que certamente me coloca longe da maioria dos terráqueos, mas não tão longe que eles não possam viajar para cá. Nem qu…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Al mismo tiempo, el colegio es la más brutal y fantoche de las escuelas de heterosexualidad. Aunque aparentemente asexual, el colegio potencia y fomenta el deseo heterosexual y la teatralización corp…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

"Não pensei em férias. Pensei em esvaziar o arquivo, descarregar a memória. Em apagar. E reiniciar. Mas nada se apaga nem se reinicia. Nem mesmo as máquinas podem ser reiniciadas. Quem diz apagar ment…"

-Paul B. Preciado, Un apartamento en Urano

Cover of Hit Parade of Tears by Izumi Suzuki

23. Hit Parade of Tears

By: Izumi Suzuki

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom. Izumi Suzuki had ideas abo… read more

Similar categories in Izumi Suzuki's Hit Parade of Tears book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

"Love isn't like a house you can just kick back and live in once its completed. No, it gets more worn and tattered day by day, unless you keep on making it up."

-Izumi Suzuki, Hit Parade of Tears

Cover of Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark

24. Reverse Cowgirl

By: McKenzie Wark

4.12

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Another genre for another gender. What if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were … read more

Similar categories in McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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25. A Short History of Trans Misogyny

By: Jules Gill-Peterson

4.47

Format: 182 pages, Hardcover

An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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26. Females

By: Andrea Long Chu

3.59

Format: 106 pages, Paperback

Everyone is female "When I say that everyone is female, I mean very simply that everyone wants to b… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Long Chu's Females book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

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27. trans girl suicide museum

By: Hannah Baer

4.48

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Clare Kelly. one part ketamine spiral, one part con… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

Cover of Dyke [geology] by Sabrina Imbler

28. Dyke [geology]

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.31

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science wri… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's Dyke [geology] book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
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29. Girlfriends

By: Emily Zhou

4.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompr… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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30. Daddy Boy

By: Emerson Whitney

3.66

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years―a dominatrix they c… read more

Similar categories in Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

31. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt

14 best-selling nonfiction books like Reverse Cowgirl by McKenzie Wark

Transform Your Habits

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano

4.26

Transform Your Habits

I'm Very into You: Correspondence 1995--1996 (Semiotext

Kathy Acker , McKenzie Wark , John Kinsella , Matias Viegener

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Cookie Mueller

4.49

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7 Best nonfiction books like The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

Transform Your Habits

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

Transform Your Habits

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency

Olivia Laing

4.01

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