17 must-read nonfiction books like You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm by Kitty Robinson

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Similar categories in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

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Similar categories in Janice G. Raymond's The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction
• lgbt

Similar categories in David Fernbach's The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

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Similar categories in Malinda Lo's Last Night at the Telegraph Club book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

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"How am I supposed to know?"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"As if summer had bloomed inside the club and wrapped her in its lazy heat"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"She didn't understand the shrinking feeling inside her, as if she shouldn't be caught looking at those girls."

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

"A few of them were already engaged to be married. When had everything changed? She felt as if it had been very sudden"

-Malinda Lo, Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Similar categories in None's Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Barbara Ehrenreich's Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

Similar categories in Sarah Waters's Tipping the Velvet book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

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"clad not exactly as a boy but, rather confusingly, as the boy I would have been, had I been more of a girl"

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"I knew that Kitty and I felt just the same- only, of course, about different things. I should have remembered this, later."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"Tricky was a plain-faced man with a very handsome voice - a voice like the sound of a clarinet, at once liquid and penetrating, and lovely to listen to."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

"With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk."

-Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• nonfiction
• lgbt

"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Similar categories in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

Similar categories in Kabi Nagata's My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

Similar categories in Isabel Greenberg's The One Hundred Nights of Hero book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

Similar categories in None's Half of a Yellow Sun book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

Similar categories in Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction

"Women feel things deeply. We empathize. For good reason, when asked to identify their best friend, most men name their wives; most women name another woman."

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

"For those of you who have ever been an adolescent or attempted the toe-curling, hair-whitening endeavor of raising one—hold your laughter. Resist the urge to squeal out loud at the preposterous notio…"

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

"Nearly every novel problem teenagers face traces itself back to 2007 and the introduction of Steve Jobs’s iPhone. In fact, the explosion in self-harm can be so precisely pinpointed to the introductio…"

-Abigail Shrier, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters

Similar categories in Robert Galbraith's Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4) book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

"Pretending you’re OK when you aren’t isn’t strength."

-Robert Galbraith, Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

"I think marriage is nearly always an unfathomable entity, even to the people inside it."

-Robert Galbraith, Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

"As suddenly as they had reached for each other, they broke apart. Tears were rolling down Robin's face. For one moment of madness, Strike yearned to say, “Come with me"

-Robert Galbraith, Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

Similar categories in F.C. Yee's The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1) book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

"Human desires were responsible for the situation they were in."

-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

"Better to parry the sword than heal the wound it made in the flesh."

-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

"Let a problem least for too long and people begin to believe it's not a problem."

-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

"Ah, the faint grain of sand, the merciless hound at our heels, the spoke of the season's wheel"

-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

Similar categories in Cat Bohannon's Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Caroline Criado Pérez's Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
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"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Similar categories in Mary Beard's Women & Power: A Manifesto book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction

"Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino"

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"I do wonder if, in some places, the presence of large numbers of women in parliament means that parliament is where the power is not."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"It was not all quite so simple, that real equality between women and men was still a thing of the future, and that there were causes for anger as well as for celebration."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

"A verdade pura e dura é que as amazonas eram um mito grego masculino. (..) A ideia subjacente era que o dever dos homens consistia em salvar a civilização do domínio das mulheres."

-Mary Beard, Women & Power: A Manifesto

Similar categories in Tamara Shopsin's LaserWriter II book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

Similar categories in Christina Sweeney-Baird's The End of Men book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism

"No one handed me any of this. I built this weird, challenging, rewarding life in London for myself. Why not me?"

-Christina Sweeney-Baird, The End of Men

Similar categories in Andrea Abreu López's Panza de burro book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• lgbt

"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

Similar categories in Kathleen Stock's Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction
• lgbt

"I am critical of gender identity theory – but not of trans people, for whom I have friendly sympathy and respect."

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"The background assumption seems to be that, paradoxically, by identifying and discussing socially produced inequalities, we further entrench them; whereas if we ignore them, perhaps they will go away."

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"A first thing to note, in case it’s unclear, is that I am not arguing against legal protections for trans people against violence, discrimination or coercive surgeries. I enthusiastically support the…"

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

"And perhaps most awkwardly, they have been left unable properly to explain why, internationally, half the population in a given culture might be disproportionately subject to specific experiences lik…"

-Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Similar categories in Lillian Fishman's Acts of Service book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

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"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• lgbt

"It was actually good that the world had ended, because now no one could make her play Settlers of Catan."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"Later, she thought, in a moment of terrible clarity, each of us will tell herself the other was the one who pulled the trigger."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"But I think mostly I just wanted her to … make me real, the way you’re real when the beautiful people look at you, and talk to you, and let you fuck them."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

"He pressed a kiss to the crown of her head and she let him hold her close among the falling leaves and relished the illusion that, if only for a little while, she was safe."

-Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt

Similar categories in Andrea Long Chu's Females book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction
• lgbt

"Femaleness is a universal sex defined by self-negation, against which all politics, even feminist politics, rebels. Put more simply: Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

"Gender is not just the misogynistic expectations a female internalizes but also the process of internalizing itself, the self's gentle suicide in the name of someone else's desires, someone else's na…"

-Andrea Long Chu, Females

Similar categories in Katrine Marçal's Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction

"Nie wyciosał cię swoim toporem Odyn, nie jesteś hydrauliczną rzeźbą, centralą telefoniczną ani komputerem. Wypluł cię skurcz krwawej macicy twojej matki."

-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

"The Viking gods didn't whittle you with an axe. You are no hydraulic statue, telephone exchange or computer. You came, kicking and screaming, out of a pulsating, blood-red womb."

-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

"Jobless Jack sits in his damp basement watching YouTube videos of Jordan Peterson, while Mary goes on a Brené Brown course on ‘vulnerability as a leadership skill’. Welcome to the second machine age!"

-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

"Witchcraft stemmed from woman’s insatiable lust, he imagined. Her vagina just couldn’t get enough. Just look at its form! It was these deeply insalubrious desires that supposedly put woman in contact…"

-Katrine Marçal, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

Similar categories in Hannah Barnes's Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction
• lgbt

"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"

-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children

Similar categories in Heather Brunskell-Evans's Transgender Body Politics book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction

"[...] 'Transwomen' are intensely preoccupied with the ancient patriarchal question: "What is a woman?" Their answer is that a woman is who she says she is, so long as it is not actually a woman who s…"

-Heather Brunskell-Evans, Transgender Body Politics

"Patriarchy is the cultural power structure in which male people are default humans, and female people are defined by projections - and the acts of domination those projections impel and licence - whi…"

-Heather Brunskell-Evans, Transgender Body Politics

"Transgenderism is the attempt to wrest female biology from women and in that process not only violates women's agency but our collective capacity for resistance. We need the language of sex differenc…"

-Heather Brunskell-Evans, Transgender Body Politics

"Adherence to queer theory forbids any discussion about sex and gender that does not restrict itself to 'gender identity', namely the sexist social construct that gives ideological effect to women's o…"

-Heather Brunskell-Evans, Transgender Body Politics

Similar categories in Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction
• lgbt

Similar categories in Karen Ingala Smith's Defending Women's Spaces book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction

"Transgender people should be accepted as they are, but not as the sex they are not."

-Karen Ingala Smith, Defending Women's Spaces

"Disagreeing with the beliefs of someone is not the same as saying they don't exist."

-Karen Ingala Smith, Defending Women's Spaces

"Feminism is the fight for the liberation of all women as a class from subjugation under patriarchy."

-Karen Ingala Smith, Defending Women's Spaces

"If we accept the concept of "cis" women, we're accepting that the class of 'woman' can be mixed sex."

-Karen Ingala Smith, Defending Women's Spaces

Similar categories in Max Robinson's Detransition: Beyond Before and After (Spinifex Shorts) book and Kitty Robinson's You Told Me You Were Different: An Anthology of Harm

• feminism
• nonfiction
• lgbt