9 must-read queer books like Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices by Toby Beauchamp

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Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

By: Toby Beauchamp

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to …

If you liked the queer plot in Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices by Toby Beauchamp , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? (LGBTQ Politics, 2)

By: Heath Fogg Davis

3.89

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Goes beyond the category of transgender to question the need for gender classification Beyond Tran… read more

Similar categories in Heath Fogg Davis's Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? (LGBTQ Politics, 2) book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
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2. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

By: Julia Serano

4.26

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

A provocative manifesto, Whipping Girl tells the powerful story of Julia Serano, a transsexual woma… read more

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Rather than focusing on “shattering the gender binary,"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"[I]magine what would happen if, instead of centering our beliefs about heterosexual sex around the idea that the man “penetrates"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

"The most radical thing that any of us can do is to stop projecting our beliefs about gender onto other people's behaviors and bodies"

-Julia Serano, Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

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3. Despair

By: Vladimir Nabokov

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965--thirty years after its original publication--Despairis the … read more

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4. The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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  • nonfiction

5. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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6. Sula

By: Toni Morrison

3.97

Format: None pages,

This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more

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7. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II

By: William Blum

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Is the United States a force for democracy? In this classic and unique volume that answers this que… read more

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8. Transgender Warriors : Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman

By: Leslie Feinberg

3.90

Format: 150 pages,

With a New Afterword by the AuthorIn this fascinating, personal journey through history, Leslie Fei… read more

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9. Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue

By: Leslie Feinberg

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. I… read more

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10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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11. There There

By: Tommy Orange

3.98

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525520375. Tommy Orange's wondrous and shattering novel foll… read more

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"Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"Being Indian has never been about returning to the land. The land is everywhere or nowhere."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"...nothing is original, everything comes from something that came before, which was once nothing. Everything is new and doomed."

-Tommy Orange, There There

"We've all been through a lot we don't understand in a world made to either break us or make us so hard we can't break even when it's what we need most to do."

-Tommy Orange, There There

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12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"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

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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

Similar categories in Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • gender
  • 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

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14. The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center

By: Rhaina Cohen

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Why do we place romantic partnership on a pedestal? What do we lose when we expect one person to me… read more

Similar categories in Rhaina Cohen's The Other Significant Others: Reimagining Life with Friendship at the Center book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • queer
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15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

By: Rachel Aviv

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more

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  • nonfiction
"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"

-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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17. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • queer
  • lgbt
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18. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

Similar categories in Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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19. README.txt

By: Chelsea Manning

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. While workin… read more

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  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."

-Chelsea Manning, README.txt

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20. Violet Made of Thorns

By: Gina Chen

3.54

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A darkly enchanting fantasy debut about a morally gray witch, a cursed prince, and a prophecy that … read more

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"Don’t look at me like that."

-Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns

"Sometimes you hate someone so much, you fall in love."

-Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns

"A prince without the fixings, after all, is just a boy."

-Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns

"If I must be a villain, I will be one of my own making."

-Gina Chen, Violet Made of Thorns

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21. Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

By: Toby Beauchamp

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to … read more

Similar categories in Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • transgender
  • school
  • theory
  • lgbt
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • gender and sexuality
  • sociology
  • queer
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22. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (ASTERISK)

By: Cameron Awkward-Rich

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In The Terrible We Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Awkward-Rich's The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (ASTERISK) book and Toby Beauchamp's Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • theory
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • queer

7 must-read politics books like Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices by Toby Beauchamp

Transform Your Habits

Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? (LGBTQ Politics, 2)

Heath Fogg Davis

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

Julia Serano

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

Rashid Khalidi

4.50

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Percival Everett

4.54

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