8 Best essays books like Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan E. Coyote

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Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures

By: Ivan E. Coyote

4.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Beloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet. Writer an…

If you liked the essays plot in Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures by Ivan E. Coyote , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Ivan E. Coyote's Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures

  • gender
  • queer
  • lgbt

2. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir

By: Kai Cheng Thom

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom is… read more

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3. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Ivan E. Coyote's Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures

  • canada
  • audiobook
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4. I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.44

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our he… read more

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  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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

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5. 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

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • 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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6. Corps vivante

By: Julie Delporte

4.30

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

En 1990, Julie Delporte n’a encore jamais vu de butch, mais sa tante préférée chasse et fume le cig… read more

Similar categories in Julie Delporte's Corps vivante book and Ivan E. Coyote's Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures

  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • queer
"On entend dire que le sexe est bon pour la santé, mais la moitié du monde autour de moi a été violée."

-Julie Delporte, Corps vivante

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7. 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 Ivan E. Coyote's Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures

  • queer
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • audiobook
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8. Making Love with the Land: Essays

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.11

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply personal excavation of Indigenous beauty and passion in a suffering world The n… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation."

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

"The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state know…"

-Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

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9. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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10. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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11. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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12. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • lgbt
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13. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • canada
  • essays
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14. 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

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"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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15. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
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16. Starlight

By: Richard Wagamese

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medic… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
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17. Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising

By: Brandi Morin

4.30

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

A wildfire of a debut memoir by internationally recognized French/Cree/Iroquois journalist Brandi M… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • canada
  • audiobook
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18. A History of My Brief Body

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

The youngest-ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

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19. People Change

By: Vivek Shraya

3.96

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*FINALIST FOR THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE* “A deeply generous and honest gift to … read more

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  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer
"Some friendships need to die. Sometimes we’re so trapped in old patterns or comforts that we don’t offer anything meaningful to each other except history."

-Vivek Shraya, People Change

"Reinvention requires both a kind of death and a desire to keep living. And so at its core, reinvention is inextricably linked to hope: the hope that we can find another way, take another shape."

-Vivek Shraya, People Change

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20. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

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21. Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures

By: Ivan E. Coyote

4.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Beloved storyteller Ivan Coyote returns with their most intimate and moving book yet. Writer an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • transgender
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • queer

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4.18

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3.92

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3.32

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