Something That May Shock and Discredit You
By: Daniel Mallory Ortberg
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column comes a witty and clever collection of essays and…
Want to Read $ 13.99"I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past."-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"But there was a curse on Laius. The curse was Daddy Issues. Only a daddy can have Daddy Issues. The Daddy Issues of Laius include: insisting on taking your children hiking even after they start crying ignoring the collective good and stiffing oracles, who depend on tips refusing to save the city letting four attendants take the hit failing to bring a vehicle to a complete stop before proceeding into the intersection"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no matter what I try to make of my life, I will never be free of that counterweight, whether I ever speak to another member of my family of origin again—always reacting, equally and oppositely, to someone else's commitments."-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"I mean, if I were thirty years younger—if I were twenty five years younger—if I were eighteen years younger—God, if I were just ten years younger—if I were a year and a day younger—if I were a month younger—if you'd asked me just five minutes ago, four and a half even, if I'd picked up on the first ring instead of the third, I'd transition. Hell, I'd transition. Oh my God, I wish I could transition. Ask me again, but sooner. Come back yesterday. Come back a week ago. What good are you to me now, when I'm—this? Where were you when there was still summer in my heart? Come back a month ago, a decade, but come back to before I had to forgive you. Just come back and ask again; I'll wait if it takes forever this time."-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
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1. Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones
By: Torrey Peters
4.12
Format: None pages,
In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with t… read more
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2. 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
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3. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In Man Alive, McBee asks, "What does it really mean to be a man?" by focusing on two of the most im… read more
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4. Texts from Jane Eyre: And Other Conversations with Your Favorite Literary Characters
By: None , Madeline Gobbo
3.71
Format: 76 pages,
Hilariously imagined text conversations--the passive aggressive, the clever, and the strange--from … read more
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5. Coffee Boy
By: Austin Chant
4.32
Format: 80 pages, ebook
After graduation, Kieran expected to go straight into a career of flipping burgers--only to be offe… read more
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6. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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"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
7. 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
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"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
8. Little Fish
By: Casey Plett
3.86
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Awa… read more
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"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
9. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
By: Kit Heyam
4.30
Format: 343 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity Today’s narratives about trans people … read more
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"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
10. 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
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"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
11. Dykette
By: Jenny Fran Davis
2.96
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day… read more
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12. Something That May Shock and Discredit You
By: Daniel Mallory Ortberg
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column comes a witty and clever collection of essays and… read more
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- queer
"I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past."-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"But there was a curse on Laius. The curse was Daddy Issues. Only a daddy can have Daddy Issues. The Daddy Issues of Laius include: insisting on taking your children hiking even after they start cryin…"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no…"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"I mean, if I were thirty years younger—if I were twenty five years younger—if I were eighteen years younger—God, if I were just ten years younger—if I were a year and a day younger—if I were a month …"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
13. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
4.22
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more
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"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
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By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
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"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
15. Confessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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16. Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
By: Julian K. Jarboe
3.93
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
In this debut collection of body-horror fairy tales and mid-apocalyptic Catholic cyberpunk, memory … read more
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"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel
17. A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
By: Cyrus Grace Dunham
3.66
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
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"I was a cloud stuck inside a person I didn't choose to be."-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
"Calling something a lie implies that one has the truth in one's mouth and swallows it. What if one can only speak -- only think -- what one suspects another person wants to hear? Then where is the tr…"-Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir
18. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
By: T. Fleischmann
4.01
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
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"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
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4.11
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American Evangeli… read more
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20. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar
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4.07
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more
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21. Dear Prudence: Liberating Lessons from Slate.com's Beloved Advice Column
By: Daniel M. Lavery
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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