Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation
By: H. Melt
4.42
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Subject to Change is an anthology celebrating the work of five poets who are unapologetically trans…
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1. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- queer lit
- queer
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
2. A Pillow Book
By: Suzanne Buffam
3.23
Format: 403 pages, Paperback
Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manua… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
3. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
4. He Do The Gay Man In Different Voices
By: Stephen S. Mills
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2012 Lambda Literary Prize for Gay Poetry. Unable to accept complacency in suburban l… read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer
5. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more
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6. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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7. Fair Play
By: Ali Smith , Tove Jansson , Thomas Teal
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation Fair Playis the type of love story that is ra… read more
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8. 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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9. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
By: Meg Kissinger
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more
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- nonfiction
10. Seven Empty Houses
By: Samanta Schweblin
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The seven houses in these seven stories are empty. Some are devoid of love or life or furniture, of… read more
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11. Girls That Never Die: Poems
By: Safia Elhillo
4.30
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Intimate poems that explore feminine shame and violence and imagine what liberation from these thre… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"I will begin by writing a sentence about cutting. I will begin by writing a sentence about silence. I will continue by writing a sentence about cutting. I will proceed to ask the question about cutti…"-Safia Elhillo, Girls That Never Die: Poems
12. Afterparties
By: Anthony Veasna So
3.95
Format: 272 pages, ebook
Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tenderhearted, balancing acerbic humor with sha… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Fuck everyone else, I want to say, for burdening the two of us with all their baggage. Let's go back to minding our own business, anything but this. Who cares about our family? What have they ever do…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"Seeing a sloppy wet penis enter a sloppy wet vagina, from above, going in and out with the practiced tempo of professionals, strikes me as yet another drama for the ages I am meant only to witness, r…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"The dream unfolds: Somaly and I are sitting at a dinner table. She wears a white sampot covered in jewels perfectly matching her necklace. She’s almost akin to an apsara in a painting—aggressively el…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
"We drove through a few more neighborhoods after that, searching for the lost truck, listening to a CD of old Khmer songs, the same CD that had been stuck in the stereo since the Honda had belonged to…"-Anthony Veasna So, Afterparties
13. 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
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- transgender
- 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
14. Homie
By: Danez Smith
4.42
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss … read more
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- poetry
- lgbt
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- queer
"the b in debt is a silent black trapped"-Danez Smith, Homie
"what good is hiding the gun & locking the cabinet if the boy can still find his own hands? if anything that loops can be a rope?"-Danez Smith, Homie
15. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
By: Mikki Kendall
4.37
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
16. The Carrying
By: Ada Limon
4.40
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"-Ada Limon, The Carrying
17. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- anthologies
18. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- activism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
19. Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
By: Megan Fox
3.76
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Megan Fox showcases her wicked humor throughout a heartbreaking and dark collection of poetry. Over… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
20. Stone Fruit
By: Lee Lai
4.06
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
21. 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
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- 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
22. Men I Trust
By: Tommi Parrish
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
23. Lemon
By: Kwon Yeo-Sun
3.27
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
In the summer of 2002, when Korea is abuzz over hosting the FIFA World Cup, nineteen-year-old Kim H… read more
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24. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
By: Chen Chen
4.15
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves cal… read more
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- poetry
- queer
- lgbt
"If we could communicate fully, there would be no need to communicate. If we could love perfectly, there would be no need to love. If we could finish grieving, there would be no need to live. If we co…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
"You climb back in bed & touch my face. You climb back in bed to touch my face. You wrap your arms around me & it’s like you’re the patron saint if touch as well as soft sunlight & soothed dogs. Or yo…"-Chen Chen, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
25. Standing Heavy
By: Gauz
3.58
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit… read more
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26. Confessions of the Fox
By: Jordy Rosenberg
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the lif… read more
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- gender
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
27. Fruiting Bodies: Stories
By: Kathryn Harlan
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more
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- queer
- anthologies
- lgbt
28. The Eyes Are the Best Part
By: Monika Kim
3.89
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more
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29. The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)
By: H.A. Clarke
3.93
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An outcast teenage lesbian witch finds her coven hidden amongst the popular girls in her school, an… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"I used to underline passages in my English books, because certain lines crawled off the page, because those lines were magic and they meant something on a cosmic scale."-H.A. Clarke, The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)
"I guess my point is that teenage girls aren't supposed to be powerful, you know? Everybody hates teenage girls. They hate our bodies and hate us if we want to change them. They hate the things we're …"-H.A. Clarke, The Scapegracers (Scapegracers, #1)
30. 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
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- queer lit
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
31. Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation
By: H. Melt
4.42
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
Subject to Change is an anthology celebrating the work of five poets who are unapologetically trans… read more
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- poetry
- transgender
- lgbt
- gender
- anthologies
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- activism
- queer
