18 must-read queer books like We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Andrea Abi-Karam

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We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

By: Andrea Abi-Karam

4.44

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire. Editors An…

If you liked the queer plot in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics by Andrea Abi-Karam , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Drag King Dreams

By: Leslie Feinberg

3.74

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

From award-winning and best-selling author, Leslie Feinberg, comes Drag King Dreams, the story of M… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Drag King Dreams book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • queer
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2. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By: Jericho Brown , None , Chen Chen

4.26

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the s… read more

Similar categories in Jericho Brown's When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"What is it, to remember nothing, of what one loved?"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"But sometimes no one said anything & I saw him, the local paper boy on his route. His beanstalk frame & fragile bicycle. & I knew: we would be so terribly happy."

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

"My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no o…"

-Jericho Brown, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

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3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • queer lit
  • queer
"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

4. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

3.81

Format: None pages,

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more

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5. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

By: Audre Lorde

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more

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6. 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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7. Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

By: Huw Lemmey

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben… read more

Similar categories in Huw Lemmey's Bad Gays: A Homosexual History book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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8. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

By: Saidiya Hartman

4.46

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more

Similar categories in Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"

-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

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9. 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 Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • 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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10. Homie

By: Danez Smith

4.42

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more

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  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"

-Danez Smith, Homie

"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"

-Danez Smith, Homie

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11. Nevada

By: Imogen Binnie

3.97

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

A beloved and blistering cult classic and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fi… read more

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • 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

Cover of It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

12. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • anthologies
  • lgbt
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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13. A Dream of a Woman

By: Casey Plett

4.31

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction… read more

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • anthologies
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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14. 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

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • 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

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15. 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
  • feminism
  • 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?

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16. Postcolonial Love Poem

By: Natalie Díaz

4.33

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Díaz's Postcolonial Love Poem book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."

-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem

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17. 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

Similar categories in Hannah Baer's trans girl suicide museum book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Another thing about K is it feels so connected to the internet."

-Hannah Baer, trans girl suicide museum

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18. We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

By: Andrea Abi-Karam

4.44

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

A collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire. Editors An… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • poetry
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • anthologies
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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19. About Ed

By: Robert Glück

3.73

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving story about love, AIDS, grief, and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come o… read more

Similar categories in Robert Glück's About Ed book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Nancy Reagan Collection by Maxe Crandall

20. The Nancy Reagan Collection

By: Maxe Crandall

4.55

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Performance Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. THE NANCY REAGAN COLLECTION is a respon… read more

Similar categories in Maxe Crandall's The Nancy Reagan Collection book and Andrea Abi-Karam's We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

  • poetry
  • lgbt
  • queer
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21. Freedom House

By: KB Brookins

4.53

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom. … read more

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  • poetry
  • gender
  • lgbt
  • queer

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