16 Top nonfiction books like He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

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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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Gender Euphoria

By: Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

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2. Dear Wendy

By: Ann Zhao

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dear Wendy's Sophie and Jo, two aromantic and asexual students at Wellesley College, engage in an o… read more

Similar categories in Ann Zhao's Dear Wendy book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Nobody talks about breaking up with your friends. It sucks. Especially when that friend ditches you to be with whoever they think is The One."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And still, it's hard to find people like me. The asexual community is small enough as it is; there are fewer aromantic people and even fewer people who are both."

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

"And that really made me think for the first time about how this could happen with any friend who's not also aroace. Like, my person, my closest confidant, will probably always have someone else - a r…"

-Ann Zhao, Dear Wendy

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3. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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4. 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

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • 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

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5. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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

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6. 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

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • 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

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7. Devout: A Memoir of Doubt

By: Anna Gazmarian

3.63

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An eye-opening memoir that reconciles the author’s bipolar disorder diagnosis and her Evangelical f… read more

Similar categories in Anna Gazmarian's Devout: A Memoir of Doubt book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • 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?

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9. Canto Contigo

By: Jonny Garza Villa

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a Mariachi star transfers schools, he expects to be handed his new group's lead vocalist spot—… read more

Similar categories in Jonny Garza Villa's Canto Contigo book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • queer
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10. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Chin's Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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11. 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

Similar categories in C. Riley Snorton's Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. Inverse Cowgirl

By: Alicia Roth Weigel

3.80

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights—and … read more

Similar categories in Alicia Roth Weigel's Inverse Cowgirl book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
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13. 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

Similar categories in Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation by Raquel Willis

14. The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation

By: Raquel Willis

4.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A passionate, powerful memoir by a trailblazing Black transgender activist, tracing her life of tra… read more

Similar categories in Raquel Willis's The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies

By: Dianna E. Anderson

4.11

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through … read more

Similar categories in Dianna E. Anderson's In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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16. A Shore Thing

By: Joanna Lowell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A delightful queer Victorian love story, featuring a boldly brash trans hero, the beguiling botanis… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Lowell's A Shore Thing book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
  • queer
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17. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power

By: Devon Price

4.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that com… read more

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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18. The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay

By: Dale Walls

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Queer Love. Something Dawn wants, desperately, but does not have. But maybe, if she can capture it,… read more

Similar categories in Dale Walls's The Queer Girl is Going to Be Okay book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • gender
  • lgbt
  • queer
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19. Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

By: Rae McDaniel

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure f… read more

Similar categories in Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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20. Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

By: Sami Sage

4.13

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart combo of self-help and political manifesto that is perfect for anyone who wants to sav… read more

Similar categories in Sami Sage's Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your priv…"

-Sami Sage, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

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21. Hot Boy Summer

By: Joe Jiménez

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Four gay teens in Texas have the summer of their lives while discovering important truths about rea… read more

Similar categories in Joe Jiménez's Hot Boy Summer book and Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer

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