24 best-selling queer books like Females by Andrea Long Chu

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Similar categories in Tao Lin's Taipei book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

"On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in."

-Tao Lin, Taipei

"Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off."

-Tao Lin, Taipei

"Gradually, after being the target a few times of a similar capriciousness, which he discerned as default behavior for most people, and not liking it, Paul learned to not be more generous or enthusias…"

-Tao Lin, Taipei

"He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or…"

-Tao Lin, Taipei

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• 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

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• 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

Similar categories in Torrey Peters's Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in J. Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• gender
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

Similar categories in Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

Similar categories in None's The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

Similar categories in Anna Kornbluh's Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• theory
• philosophy
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Valerie Solanas's Up Your Ass or From the Cradle to the Boat or The Big Suck or Up from the Slime, & A Young Girl's Primer on How to Attain to the Leisure Class book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• feminism
• gender
• queer

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• gender
• 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 Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• 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 Katherine Angel's Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• feminism
• gender
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays

"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• 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

Similar categories in Constance Debré's Play Boy book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Paul B. Preciado's Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• transgender
• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• queer

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• 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

Similar categories in Legacy Russell's Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• theory
• feminism
• gender
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• queer

Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• theory
• feminism
• gender
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• queer

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• lgbt
• feminism
• gender
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• queer

"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 McKenzie Wark's Reverse Cowgirl book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• gender
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• queer

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• transgender
• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Andrea Long Chu's Females book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• 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

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

• transgender
• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• 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

Similar categories in Laboria Cuboniks's Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• lgbt
• theory
• feminism
• gender
• philosophy
• nonfiction
• essays
• queer

"If nature is unjust, change nature!"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"These puritanical politics of shame—which fetishize oppression as if it were a blessing, and cloud the waters in moralistic frenzies—leave us cold. We want neither clean hands nor beautiful souls, ne…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

"Anyone who’s been deemed ‘unnatural’ in the face of reigning biological norms, anyone who’s experienced injustices wrought in the name of natural order, will realize that the glorification of ‘nature…"

-Laboria Cuboniks, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• 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 Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through book and Andrea Long Chu's Females

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• essays
• 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