19 Best lgbt books like This Has Always Been a War by Lori Fox

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Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

Similar categories in Larry Gonick's Hypercapitalism: A Cartoon Critique of the Modern Economy and Its Values book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• politics
• nonfiction

"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Camp Damascus book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• lgbt

"Then again, does it really matter if you're just evil, as opposed to over-the-top cartoonishly evil?"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

"That acknowledgement could arrive after several decades, or it could happen tonight, but the time will come. Eventually, I'll have to fully contend with this simple fact: the love I was promised was …"

-Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• politics
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Vincent Bevins's The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• politics
• nonfiction

"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• nonfiction
• memoir
• essays

"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Similar categories in John Moe's The Hilarious World of Depression book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• nonfiction
• memoir

"it makes sense when you think about the confluence of puberty hormones, stress from academics and the emergence of primitive appalling forms of dating, depression starts in your junior high."

-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

"Novelist John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars among many other megaselling books, has struggled with [depression] for many years. "There is this weird perpetual hope," he told me, "not just a…"

-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

"My dad loved telling ghost stories from the times he went camping with his father in Sweden. In one story they were driving on a country road at night and kept having to stop because they'd see feet …"

-John Moe, The Hilarious World of Depression

Similar categories in C.L. Polk's Even Though I Knew the End book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• lgbt

"A warm firework blossomed in my chest, the brilliant sparks flying along my nerves. I barely stopped myself from reaching across the table for her hand."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"I never told her how she had saved me. I never told her how she became the dearest friend I’d ever had. I told her I loved her, but never enough. My Edith of the sparrows. My heart. My world."

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

"Ten years. It wasn't enough time, but I would live every blessed second of it. "We're going to San Fransisco." She smiled up at me. "We'll get a house in North Beach." "Right away," I said. "I've got…"

-C.L. Polk, Even Though I Knew the End

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 Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• memoir
• lgbt
• feminism
• 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

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• memoir
• 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

Similar categories in Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"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 Andrew Joseph White's The Spirit Bares Its Teeth book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• lgbt

"He's...he's doing the same thing I do. His hands are fluttering. Like mine. Oh God, he's like me."

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I should not have to keep fixing the damage done to us. It would be so easy to not hurt us and the Speakers can't even do that. It's more work to hurt us. It's more work to be cruel - and yet they co…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"I do not get to savor the masculine cut of my clothes, or the illusion of short hair, or the feeting joy of my skin feeling like mine. Instead, I have to worry if my boyhood is convincing enough to k…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

"My name is Daphne.' Daphne? In that moment, it's as if I've peeled the skin away from the chest of a patient, revealing a beating heart. A boy could not say that name as if terrified the syllables wi…"

-Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• nonfiction
• queer
• essays
• lgbt

"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Similar categories in Tanya Tagaq's Split Tooth book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• canada

"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."

-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Making Love with the Land: Essays book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• 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

Similar categories in Vivek Shraya's I'm Afraid of Men book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• memoir
• canada
• lgbt
• feminism
• nonfiction
• essays
• 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 Tessa Hulls's Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• nonfiction
• memoir

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• 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 Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Robyn Maynard's Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• politics
• nonfiction
• canada

"In the abolitionist journal Voice of the Fugitive, Shadd Cary neatly summed up the Canadian contradiction, calling the white Canadian an “anti-slavery Negro hater"

-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

"slavery never took the form of the large-scale plantations found in the American South, the Caribbean or South America. Plantations, though their establishment was desired by some colonists, were fou…"

-Robyn Maynard, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present

Similar categories in Clayton Thomas-Muller's Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• nonfiction
• memoir
• canada

Similar categories in Morgan Thomas's Manywhere: Stories book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• memoir
• lgbt
• feminism
• 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 Harry Nicholas's A Trans Man Walks into a Gay Bar book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• nonfiction
• memoir
• lgbt

Similar categories in Maya Deane's Wrath Goddess Sing book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• lgbt

"And it would be death -- the death of her self, the inexorable corrosion of her soul, until even her name was forgotten and nothing was left but the shell of a man she never was."

-Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing

"She loved Patroklos, she loved Meryapi, and it had nothing to do with desire, only joy—to see them was joy; to breathe with them was joy; to ride with Patroklos on a cattle raid was joy; scanning the…"

-Maya Deane, Wrath Goddess Sing

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• memoir
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• essays
• queer

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War book and Lori Fox's This Has Always Been a War

• class
• memoir
• canada
• lgbt
• feminism
• politics
• nonfiction
• essays
• labor
• queer