15 Top adult books like A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas

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A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh…

If you liked the adult plot in A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

By: Thomas Page McBee

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In Man Alive, McBee asks, "What does it really mean to be a man?" by focusing on two of the most im… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer

2. Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

By: Leslie Feinberg

3.90

Format: 150 pages,

With a New Afterword by the AuthorIn this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Fei… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

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3. 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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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4. 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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • 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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5. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • gender
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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6. 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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • 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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7. We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

By: Lou Sullivan

4.76

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguab… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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

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8. 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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • 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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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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • 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. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • adult
  • queer
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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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • 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

Cover of The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice by Shon Faye

12. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

Similar categories in Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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13. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • adult
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
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14. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • 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

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15. Bored Gay Werewolf

By: Tony Santorella

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about… read more

Similar categories in Tony Santorella's Bored Gay Werewolf book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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16. 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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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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17. 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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2) by Lewis Hancox

18. Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sequel to the Indie bestseller WELCOME TO ST. HELL, Lewis Hancox tells the hilarious, inspi… read more

Similar categories in Lewis Hancox's Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2) book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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19. Neon Roses

By: Rachel Dawson

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Dawson's Neon Roses book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser

20. The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

By: Mark Gevisser

4.27

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

One of the Financial Times and Guardian Books to Look Forward to in 2020 A groundbreaking look a… read more

Similar categories in Mark Gevisser's The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee

21. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

By: Thomas Page McBee

4.22

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Page McBee's Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"

-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man

Cover of The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go by Lola Phoenix

22. The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go

By: Lola Phoenix

4.09

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Embarking on a non-monogamous relationship can be a daunting experience, opening old wounds that ca… read more

Similar categories in Lola Phoenix's The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary  Zane

23. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Zachary Zane

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Zane's Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • biography
  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche

24. Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships

By: Juno Roche

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

'Queer Sex is simply phenomenal'. - Bitch Media In this frank, funny and poignant book, transgen… read more

Similar categories in Juno Roche's Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture (Inklings, #3) by Liam Konemann

25. The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture (Inklings, #3)

By: Liam Konemann

4.35

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In 2019, Liam Konemann began collating what he called ‘The Appendix’, a simple record of ongoing tr… read more

Similar categories in Liam Konemann's The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture (Inklings, #3) book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Male Gazed by Manuel Betancourt

26. The Male Gazed

By: Manuel Betancourt

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more

Similar categories in Manuel Betancourt's The Male Gazed book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • memoir
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Daddy Boy by Emerson Whitney

27. Daddy Boy

By: Emerson Whitney

3.66

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years―a dominatrix they c… read more

Similar categories in Emerson Whitney's Daddy Boy book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan

28. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • queer lit
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry  Nicholas

29. A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

By: Harry Nicholas

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘On the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of wh… read more

Similar categories in Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • queer lit
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy by T. C. Oakes-Monger

30. All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

By: T. C. Oakes-Monger

4.52

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An uplifting and beautifully crafted collection of stories that celebrate the joy of being trans. W… read more

Similar categories in T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Trans Sex: A Guide for Adults by Kelvin Sparks

31. Trans Sex: A Guide for Adults

By: Kelvin Sparks

4.36

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Does a post-vaginoplasty vagina have a G-spot? Why do some trans people find they enjoy anal sex mo… read more

Similar categories in Kelvin Sparks's Trans Sex: A Guide for Adults book and Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt

22 Top nonfiction books like A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas

Transform Your Habits

Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man

Thomas Page McBee

3.91

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

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

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17 best-selling nonfiction books like Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche

Transform Your Habits

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary

Travis Alabanza

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Jessica Fern

4.40

Transform Your Habits

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

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