9 Best queer books like Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa

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Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. …

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1. None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

By: Travis Alabanza

4.38

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

‘When you are someone that falls outside of categories in so many ways, a lot of things are said to… read more

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • queer
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

By: Katherine Angel

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Angel's Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"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

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3. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

By: Sophie Lewis

3.70

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Lewis's Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • queer
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4. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

By: Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more

Similar categories in Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanched?"

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

"Free speech', which poses as a merely formal principle of adjudication, is in fact, MacKinnon suggests, an ideological tool selectively deployed to protect the freedoms of the dominant class."

-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

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5. 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 Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • 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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6. Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

By: Lola Olufemi

4.43

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

More than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structur… read more

Similar categories in Lola Olufemi's Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
"Feminist work is justice work"

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"Legality does not equal access."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"A feminism that seeks power instead of questioning it does not care about justice."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

"If feminism means freedom, it means the right to self-determination and the right to be multi-dimensional, disorganised and even incoherent."

-Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

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7. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Nick Walker's Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"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

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9. Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty

By: Emma Dabiri

4.06

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more

Similar categories in Emma Dabiri's Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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10. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

Similar categories in Micha Frazer-Carroll's Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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11. 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

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's A Short History of Trans Misogyny book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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12. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

Similar categories in Amy Key's Arrangements in Blue book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • nonfiction
  • love
  • essays
  • audiobook
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13. Radical Intimacy

By: Sophie K. Rosa

4.23

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more

Similar categories in Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • audiobook
  • relationships
  • love
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
  • queer
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14. They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life

By: Alva Gotby

3.87

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions Comforting a family memb… read more

Similar categories in Alva Gotby's They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • relationships
  • love
  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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15. 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

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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16. Spoilt Creatures

By: Amy Twigg

3.94

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

They thought they knew everything about us. The kind of women we were. It was a place for women.… read more

Similar categories in Amy Twigg's Spoilt Creatures book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • queer
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17. BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings, #16)

By: Anahit Behrooz

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

BFFs examines female friendship as a site of radical intimacy, as told through the cultural touchst… read more

Similar categories in Anahit Behrooz's BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings, #16) book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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18. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

By: Robert Chapman

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the  invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more

Similar categories in Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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19. Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

By: Lola Olufemi

4.24

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

We collectively build and collectively shatter—every broken window is a new opportunity; every burn… read more

Similar categories in Lola Olufemi's Experiments in Imagining Otherwise book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"Almost dead was worse than dead — it meant you were only being kept alive to work. To serve THE LAW or THE STATE or THE BOSS"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"Fuck genius. Or anything other than what we make with many hands. Injecting mixed thoughts into the superstructure, into the fight between classes, into the annals of history’s radical traditions mea…"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

"If we hold commitments and dreams to end violence, we must account for those who perpetrate it without banishment. The scope of our concern must extend beyond ‘I’—the individual person who we imagine…"

-Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

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20. Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan

4.57

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Lyrical and uncompromising - Suhaiymah writes to disrupt' -  gal-dem Islamophobia is everywhere. … read more

Similar categories in Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan's Tangled in Terror: Uprooting Islamophobia (Outspoken by Pluto) book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
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21. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

By: Sofie Hagen

4.05

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Will I Ever Have Sex Again? book and Sophie K. Rosa's Radical Intimacy

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer

11 Best audiobook books like Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

Katherine Angel

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Amia Srinivasan

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

4.02

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18 Top contemporary books like Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

August Blue

Deborah Levy

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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