5 must-read social justice books like The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

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The New Queer Conscience

By: Adam Eli

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space …

"Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere."

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

"Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere."

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

"Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere."

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

"I wish someone had told me that being queer means you are never alone"

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

If you liked the social justice plot in The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker, None, Jules Scheele

1. Queer: A Graphic History

By: Meg-John Barker , None , Jules Scheele

0.00

Format: 287 pages,

Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer th… read more

Similar categories in Meg-John Barker's Queer: A Graphic History book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

2. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

Similar categories in Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

Cover of Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls by Kai Cheng Thom

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 Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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. 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 Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel by Gabby Rivera

5. Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel

By: Gabby Rivera

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK! Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bron… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib

6. We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

By: Samra Habib

4.16

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

CANADA READS 2020 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 EDNA STAEBLER AWARD FOR CREATIVE NON-FICTION NA… read more

Similar categories in Samra Habib's We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Being surrounded by people who fuel you is intentional."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"For me, a wedding was an act of necessity, not a fairy tale."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"The joy of discovery is one of the biggest pleasures you'll ever know."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

"Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best."

-Samra Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Cover of Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse by Brontez Purnell

7. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

By: Brontez Purnell

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more

Similar categories in Brontez Purnell's Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

8. I'm Afraid of Men

By: Vivek Shraya

4.23

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's I'm Afraid of Men book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."

-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men

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9. The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics

By: The Kao

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this vibrant and affirming comics anthology, 29 trans & nonbinary comic artists share their pers… read more

Similar categories in The Kao's The Out Side: Trans & Nonbinary Comics book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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10. Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness

By: Melani Sie

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cozy up with a warm cup of tea and follow the sweet scenes of Milk & Mocha, from the popular webcom… read more

Similar categories in Melani Sie's Milk & Mocha: Our Little Happiness book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

Cover of The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

11. 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

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • activism
  • 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

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12. A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality

By: Molly Muldoon

4.11

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

This book is for anyone who wants to learn about asexuality, and for Ace people themselves, to vali… read more

Similar categories in Molly Muldoon's A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska?: A Memoir by Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

13. My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska?: A Memoir

By: Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Alaska Thunderfuck spills the tea on her meteoric rise from timid Pennsylvania kid to drag supersta… read more

Similar categories in Alaska Thunderfuck 5000's My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska?: A Memoir book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me by Shelby Criswell

15. Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me

By: Shelby Criswell

4.37

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This graphic novel paints a picture of the lives of 10 specific LGBTQIA people from history, framed… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Criswell's Queer as All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities by Mady G.

16. A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

By: Mady G.

4.27

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this quick and easy guide to queer and trans identities, cartoonists Mady G and JR Zuckerberg gu… read more

Similar categories in Mady G.'s A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"No matter the outcome or whatever decision you make, you will grow and blossom into who you’re meant to be and that’s an amazing thing. Try new things, take some chances. You might be surprised at wh…"

-Mady G., A Quick & Easy Guide to Queer & Trans Identities

Cover of This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers by Elias Jahshan

17. This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

By: Elias Jahshan

4.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Ara… read more

Similar categories in Elias Jahshan's This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Those of us who suffer from severe anxiety and PTSD, in my case due to inferiority complexes and repeated emotional, physical and religious trauma from a young age, know that the fear of being found …"

-Elias Jahshan, This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers

Cover of At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery by Shou Arai

18. At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery

By: Shou Arai

3.39

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

At age 30, Shou Arai came to a realization; they had no gender. Now they were faced with a question… read more

Similar categories in Shou Arai's At 30, I Realized I Had No Gender: Life Lessons From a 50-Year-Old After Two Decades of Self-Discovery book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
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19. Ellie Engle Saves Herself

By: Leah Johnson

4.13

Format: 288 pages, None

Ellie Engle doesn’t stand out. Not at home, where she’s alone with her pet fish since her dad moved… read more

Similar categories in Leah Johnson's Ellie Engle Saves Herself book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
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20. Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

By: g. haron davis

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of All Out and Cemetery Boys, this anthology claims a seat at the table of fantasy… read more

Similar categories in g. haron davis's Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
"There is no shortage of people who want to hide the truth, dear Ari, and not a single one of them is of any consequence to me. In a decade, there will be another witch or wizard or magician or mundan…"

-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

"She smiled at him a little sadly. 'What do you want, Ronan? Do you want them to suffer? Or do you want them to change? The truth was, he hadn't thought that far ahead 'It's easy to hurt people,' she …"

-g. haron davis, Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic

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21. Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition

By: Julia Kaye

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A highly personal collection documenting the early months of artist Julia Kaye’s gender transition.… read more

Similar categories in Julia Kaye's Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

22. 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 Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • social justice
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
Cover of Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe

23. Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding

By: Maia Kobabe

4.47

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A graphic guide to chest binding with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Maia Kobabe's Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability by A. Andrews

24. A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability

By: A. Andrews

4.42

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A quick, easy, and educational comic book guide that will help change the way we talk about sex and… read more

Similar categories in A. Andrews's A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1) by Anita Kelly

25. Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1)

By: Anita Kelly

4.05

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

After a lifetime of failed relationships, non-binary history professor Sam Bell is committed to a n… read more

Similar categories in Anita Kelly's Sing Anyway (Moonlighters, #1) book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies by Dianna E. Anderson

26. 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 Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • queer
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27. The New Queer Conscience

By: Adam Eli

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

Similar categories in Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • gay
  • jewish
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • activism
  • queer
"Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere."

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

"I wish someone had told me that being queer means you are never alone"

-Adam Eli, The New Queer Conscience

Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

28. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Sensory: Life on the Spectrum book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Tom Fitzgerald

29. Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life

By: Tom Fitzgerald

4.17

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is Drag Race the queerest show in t… read more

Similar categories in Tom Fitzgerald's Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans by Sammy Lisel

30. Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans

By: Sammy Lisel

4.51

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Becoming who you are is a journey, and all journeys start somewhere. In a collection of stories … read more

Similar categories in Sammy Lisel's Becoming Who We Are: Real Stories About Growing Up Trans book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • queer
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • lgbt
Cover of Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo

31. Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons

By: Anthony Christian Ocampo

4.41

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The stories of second-generation immigrant gay men coming of age in Los Angeles Growing up in th… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Christian Ocampo's Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons book and Adam Eli's The New Queer Conscience

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • queer

15 Best audiobook books like The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli

Transform Your Habits

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

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir

Samra Habib

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse

Brontez Purnell

4.16

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8 must-read adult books like He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar

Transform Your Habits

Gender Euphoria

Laura Kate Dale

4.11

Transform Your Habits

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

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Pageboy

Elliot Page

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

Curtis Chin

3.80

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