14 Top memoir books like All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy by T. C. Oakes-Monger

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Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• anthologies
• short stories
• 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

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• 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

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

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

"When you live in a community of queers, anarchists, & activists, crisis is the baseline and stability an outlier."

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Models of justice that centre punishment do not prevent abuse but only react to it, and they don't offer a pathway toward healing for either perpetrators or survivors. Nor do they acknowledge the dua…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"That in a loving place, I am able to hear a friend disagree with me and know that they still care for me. That I can receive their advice and know that I don't have to follow it. That there is enough…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

"Transition is a fundamental right that all trans people, of all ages, should have access to. But I believe that transition, ideally, should be offered to us as one option of many for bodily autonomy …"

-Kai Cheng Thom, I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• 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

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• queer
• nonfiction
• memoir
• lgbt

"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• memoir
• transgender
• gay
• lgbt
• gender
• 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

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• 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

Similar categories in Jadzia Axelrod's Galaxy: The Prettiest Star book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's I'm Afraid of Men book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• 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

Similar categories in Rachel Dawson's Neon Roses book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• adult
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"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

Similar categories in Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Julian K. Jarboe's Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• transgender
• lgbt
• anthologies
• short stories
• queer

"Eventually, even Pavlov found that when he heard a bell he had the overwhelming urge to feed a dog."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

"God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-Julian K. Jarboe, Everyone on the Moon Is Essential Personnel

Similar categories in Elias Jahshan's This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• memoir
• lgbt
• anthologies
• short stories
• nonfiction
• adult
• 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

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• queer

"I would hope that someone would step away from this book recognising that "transgender" does not encompass just one type of person."

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"If self-hatred was hammered into you when you were young, Major wants you to know that you're important - that being an outsider helps you develop skin that's both tough and pliable in social situati…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

"The Powers That Be: the corporate, government, and nonprofit actors who work to preserve the status quo, and the forces in the world who want us all to fit into our proper places in an established so…"

-Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Similar categories in Chella Man's Continuum (Pocket Change Collective) book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

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

"That is the one of the beauties of my identity. It acts as a filter, guiding me toward the gems in life"

-Chella Man, Continuum (Pocket Change Collective)

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• transgender
• gay
• lgbt
• adult
• queer

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

• memoir
• transgender
• gay
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• memoir
• transgender
• gay
• lgbt
• gender
• anthologies
• short stories
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Stacy Jane Grover's Tar Hollow Trans: Essays book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• memoir
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

Similar categories in Amrou Al-Kadhi's Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen book and T. C. Oakes-Monger's All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have: Stories of Trans Joy

• queer
• nonfiction
• memoir
• lgbt

"I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that."

-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

"As a queer person, I believe almost dogmatically in difference, in the idea that every single person is unique, with their own innate sense of self, and that it is this difference which brings all of…"

-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen

"You might be questioning why I allowed Mason to treat me this way. I often do myself. But at the age of sixteen, and as someone who had not found true acceptance anywhere I turned, I was willing to a…"

-Amrou Al-Kadhi, Unicorn: The Memoir of a Muslim Drag Queen