20 must-read transgender books like Future Feeling by Joss Lake

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Similar categories in Mattie Lubchansky's Boys Weekend book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• science fiction
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"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 Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"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 Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• 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 Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• fantasy
• queer

"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Similar categories in Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Isaac Fellman's Dead Collections book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• fantasy
• queer

"...any reasonable person would want to be a librarian."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's not weird to make your body yours. It's not weird to want a custom body."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"It's cold in the archives, and there's nobody there. I belong in the archives. I am cold too."

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

"Those names, Ari and Sol - what is it about Jewish trans men that we all have to reach back to our roots, as if they are the only source of nourishment we have left?"

-Isaac Fellman, Dead Collections

Similar categories in Daniel Mallory Ortberg's Something That May Shock and Discredit You book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• adult
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"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 Megan Milks's Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• queer

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

Similar categories in Jordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the Fox book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in T.J. Alexander's Chef's Choice (Chef's Kiss, #2) book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Davey Davis's X book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• science fiction
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Krys Malcolm Belc's The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

Similar categories in Joss Lake's Future Feeling book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• science fiction fantasy
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• science fiction
• speculative fiction
• fantasy
• queer

"The internet is just a low-grade representation of human consciousness."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"Of course, treachery is more entertaining than the repair of the world..."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"...you shouldn't try to do anything without your lawyer present. That's for poor people who get totally chewed up by the system."

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

"All at once, a deep sadness descended. Why hadn't I known that such possibilities existed before? Why was my childhood a series of miseries and only in my most recent phase of adulthood did delight p…"

-Joss Lake, Future Feeling

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Emily Zhou's Girlfriends book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Naomi Kanakia's The Default World book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Soula Emmanuel's Wild Geese book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer

"I try to hurry the encounter along in the manner of a French oral exam, stammering through the procedurals of a regulation rendezvous in the hope of disembarking promptly at au revoir."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Perhaps I am doomed to have sillier and sillier identity crises until I am dead: the one label that accepts no backchat. Paralysis by analysis begetting paralysis the old-fashioned way."

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"I am thirty years old and living in postscript already, not on the edge but over it, a happenstance life on a tranquil margin. It is a gatecrasher’s quiet. I cannot explain what a thrill it is just t…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

"Dolly is a ten-year-old bichon frise. Her fur smells like bran flakes and her breath smells like rotting flesh. Most of the time she’s a languid, trip-over dog, a little cat of a dog, though in her u…"

-Soula Emmanuel, Wild Geese

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Joss Lake's Future Feeling

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• queer