Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
By: C. Riley Snorton
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em…
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1. 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
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- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- 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
2. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
By: Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
3.98
Format: 574 pages, Paperback
The "woman question," this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing Africa… read more
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- race
- history
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
3. The Queer Art of Failure
By: J. Jack Halberstam
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Queer Art of Failureis about finding alternatives--to conventional understandings of success in… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
4. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
By: José Esteban Muñoz
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
5. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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6. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
By: Anne Fausto-Sterling
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity bio… read more
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8. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir
By: Kai Cheng Thom
1.75
Format: 134 pages, Paperback
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more
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9. Transgender History
By: Susan Stryker
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Paperback
Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender Historyt… read more
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10. Doughnuts and Doom
By: Balazs Lorinczi
3.69
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Being a teenage witch—or rock star—is tougher than it looks! But maybe enemies can become friends…o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
11. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.44
Format: 155 pages, Paperback
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- queer
"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
12. 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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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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
13. 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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- history
- 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
14. The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
By: Eric Cervini
4.31
Format: 494 pages, Hardcover
The secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall. In 1957… read more
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- history
- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- queer
"What the hell ever happened to the concept of freedom and equality that we espouse?"-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
"And if society rejected him? ‘Why, society can,’ as he later described the realization. ‘They’ll lose more than I will."-Eric Cervini, The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
15. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- queer
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
16. Histories of the Transgender Child
By: Jules Gill-Peterson
4.40
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A groundbreaking twentieth-century history of transgender children With transgender rights front… read more
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
17. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- 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?
18. Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
By: Nick Walker
4.37
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The work of queer autistic scholar Nick Walker has played a key role in the evolving discourse on h… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"If you see anyone trying to narrow the definition of neuroqueer and trying to police who gets to use the tern, feel free to tell them that I said to stop acting like a fucking cop. The world needs mo…"-Nick Walker, Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
19. Blessed Water (Sister Holiday Mystery #2)
By: Margot Douaihy
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sister Holiday is back with a newly minted PI apprentice certificate, a twisty mystery to solve, an… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
20. 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
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
21. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- lgbt
- politics
- nonfiction
- social justice
- queer
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
22. Female Husbands: A Trans History
By: Jen Manion
4.01
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women w… read more
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- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
23. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
By: C. Riley Snorton
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans em… read more
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- race
- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- social justice
- anti racist
- queer
24. He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
By: Schuyler Bailar
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Go‑to expert on gender identity, Schuyler Bailar, offers an essential, urgent guide that changes th… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
25. 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
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- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum
26. Trans Care
By: Hil Malatino
4.37
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How … read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
27. The Male Gazed
By: Manuel Betancourt
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more
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- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
28. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- nonfiction
- social justice
29. When Brooklyn Was Queer
By: Hugh Ryan
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
The groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
- lgbt
30. Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
By: Hil Malatino
4.32
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
How the “bad feelings” of trans experience inform trans survival and flourishing Some days—or we… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
31. Black Trans Feminism
By: Marquis Bey
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in w… read more
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- race
- transgender
- lgbt
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
