6 best-selling biography memoir books like Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

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Similar categories in Gloria E. Anzaldúa's This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• feminism
• gender
• nonfiction

"This Bridge Called My Back intends to reflect an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color in the U.S."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I get angry with those in the women's movement and out of it who deal with class & color as if they defined politics and people."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"I keep wanting to repeat over and over and over again, the pain and shock of difference, the joy of commonness, the exhilaration of meeting through incredible odds against it."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

"These women don't believe in the sanctity of the marriage bond, the inviolable privacy of the husband-wife unit. The cattiness is mixed with the information, tips. The misery is communal."

-Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Similar categories in Chris Edwards's Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

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

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• feminism
• gender
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• feminism
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Ivan E. Coyote's Tomboy Survival Guide book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Jamison Green's Becoming a Visible Man book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

Similar categories in Susan Stryker's Transgender History book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

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

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• feminism
• 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 Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• biography
• 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

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• 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 Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• audiobook
• 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 Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• gender
• lgbt
• transgender
• 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 Lewis Hancox's Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2) book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

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

Similar categories in Daniel Mallory Ortberg's Something That May Shock and Discredit You book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• audiobook
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• 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

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

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

"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

Similar categories in Liam Konemann's The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture (Inklings, #3) book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Cyrus Grace Dunham's A Year Without a Name: A Memoir book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

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

"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

Similar categories in Jackson Bird's Sorted: Growing Up, Coming Out, and Finding My Place (A Transgender Memoir) book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

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

Similar categories in T. Fleischmann's Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• 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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

• biography
• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer