Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
By: Essie Dennis
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
As a young, queer, plus-size person, Essie Dennis has spent a lot of time feeling like they weren't…
Want to Read $ 9.99"You deserve to be truly and honestly "-Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
"You deserve to be truly and honestly "-Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
"You deserve to be truly and honestly "-Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
"You deserve to be truly and honestly you."-Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
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1. On Our Backs Guide to Lesbian Sex
By: Rachel Kramer Bussel , Diana Cage
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
World-renowned authorities on lesbian sexuality explain it all for you. This remarkable volume show… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
2. Queer: A Graphic History
By: Meg-John Barker , None , Jules Scheele
0.00
Format: 287 pages,
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer th… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
3. Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir
By: Liz Prince
3.86
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
Growing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl, dressing in pink tutus or playing pretty princess like … read more
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4. 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
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
5. Moi les hommes, je les déteste
By: Pauline Harmange
3.82
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
" Je vois dans la misandrie une porte de sortie. Une manière d'exister en dehors du passage clouté,… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Les modèles qu’on inculque sont nocifs dans les deux cas : ni la violence qu’on encourage chez les garçons ni la passivité qu’on impose aux filles ne sont des réponses appropriées, pour soi comme pou…"-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste
"Ce n'est pas pour cracher dans la soupe, mais il faut être honnête: non, mon amoureux n'est pas parfait. Il ne me viole pas et ne me frappe pas, il fait la vaisselle, passe l'aspirateur et me traite …"-Pauline Harmange, Moi les hommes, je les déteste
6. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
"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
7. 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
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- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
- audiobook
"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
8. Rosewater
By: Liv Little
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more
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- lgbt
- adult
- queer
- audiobook
9. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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- nonfiction
"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
10. 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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- feminism
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"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
11. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
12. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?
By: Sofie Hagen
4.05
Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition
'I'm hungry to go on this journey. Sofie is smashing and remoulding her readers understanding of se… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- feminism
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
13. Couplets
By: Maggie Millner
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more
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- lgbt
- adult
- queer
- audiobook
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
14. We Got the Beat
By: Jenna Miller
3.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Jordan Elliot is a fat, nerdy lesbian, and the first junior to be named editor-in-chief of the scho… read more
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- lgbt
- queer
- audiobook
15. Looking After Your Autistic Self: A Personalised Self-Care Approach to Managing Your Sensory and Emotional Well-Being
By: Niamh Garvey
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
'I no longer try to mask my autism; I now work to support my autism' It is a myth that autistic ch… read more
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- audiobook
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- self help
16. Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
By: Peter Apps
4.77
Format: 304 pages, ebook
The truth about Grenfell at long last. It is hardly possible to admit it. That the biggest tower bl… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. The Book of X
By: Sarah Rose Etter
4.04
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- audiobook
18. Rainbow Black
By: Maggie Thrash
3.96
Format: 404 pages, Paperback
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more
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- adult
- lgbt
- queer
19. Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture
By: Hannah Ewens
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
From Beatlemania in the early 1960s to the Directioners and Beyhive of today, female music fans hav… read more
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- feminism
- adult
- nonfiction
20. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
21. Sounds Fake But Okay
By: Sarah Costello
3.65
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by hum… read more
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- audiobook
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
22. Mind The Gap: The truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life
By: Karen Gurney
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
'This book taught me so much about female desire. A must read!' Cherry HealeyDid you know that ther… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
- audiobook
23. A Shot in the Dark
By: Victoria Lee
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An emotionally powerful romance novel about two people finding love after struggling with addiction… read more
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- lgbt
- adult
- queer
- audiobook
24. The Pairing
By: Casey McQuiston
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more
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- lgbt
- adult
- queer
- audiobook
"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing
25. The Ghost Cat
By: Alex Howard
3.61
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time , following a cat thr… read more
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- adult
26. How to Have Feminist Sex
By: Flo Perry
4.09
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
We talk about feminism in the workplace and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but women's own patr… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
27. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum
By: Bex Ollerton
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more
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- adult
- nonfiction
- mental health
28. Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
By: Essie Dennis
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
As a young, queer, plus-size person, Essie Dennis has spent a lot of time feeling like they weren't… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- personal development
- lgbt
- feminism
- mental health
- queer lit
- nonfiction
- adult
- queer
"You deserve to be truly and honestly "-Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
"You deserve to be truly and honestly you."-Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
"Your body doesn’t exist just to prove something to someone else."-Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
"I will not feel ashamed because I don’t adhere to gender roles I never consented to being part of in the first place."-Essie Dennis, Queer Body Power: Finding Your Body Positivity
29. Lover Birds
By: Leanne Egan
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
With an irresistible enemies-to-lovers romance, and perfect for fans of Alice Oseman and Becky Albe… read more
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- mental health
- lgbt
- queer
- audiobook
30. Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self
By: Rae McDaniel
4.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom with joy, curiosity, and pleasure f… read more
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- audiobook
- self help
- lgbt
- mental health
- nonfiction
- queer
31. Gender Pioneers: A Celebration of Transgender, Non-Binary and Intersex Icons
By: Philippa Punchard
2.87
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
This inspiring collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential transgender,… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
