8 Top theory books like Be Gay Do Crime by Mary Nardini Gang

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Similar categories in Carrie Brownstein's Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"I've always felt unclaimed."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I don't want to know what's going to happen. As frightening as that is in real life, it's a crucial aspect in creativity. Being predictable is boring, and it's also disheartening and usinspiring."

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"If someone didn’t feel included, if someone felt marginalised, they would form their own band, write their own fanzine, or just call you out on what they deemed racist or classist, sizeist, sexist, b…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

"I suppose we were better observers than communicators; we were all subjects to be worried over, complained about, even adored, but never quite people to be held or loved. There was an intellectual, a…"

-Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

Similar categories in Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

"Some stories, you use up. Others use you up."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

"As the French say, who doesn't like getting their butt sucked?"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

"As human beings, our first commandment is: Something needs to happen"

-Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• politics
• queer
• lgbt

"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

Similar categories in Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

Similar categories in Angela Y. Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete? book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

Similar categories in Arthur Evans's Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

Similar categories in Cornel West's Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Similar categories in Myriam Gurba's Creep: Accusations and Confessions book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Similar categories in Andrew Joseph White's Hell Followed With Us book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• queer
• lgbt

"Do you believe in God? I do, please stop, there's so much blood"

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I think it hits us all at the same time that maybe we'll live long enough to grow up."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"Bein transgender is who you are, and the pain is what the outside does to you. The pain is what happens when you and the world go at each other's throats."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

"I'm done begging for a scrap of respect-I am done with those who enact suffering, and I am done with the sons of bitches who stand back and let it happen."

-Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

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 Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"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 Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"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 Alison Rumfitt's Brainwyrms book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• politics
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• theory
• nonfiction

Similar categories in Dean Spade's Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• theory
• activism
• politics
• nonfiction

"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• queer
• lgbt

"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

Similar categories in Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Robert Evans's After The Revolution book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• politics

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• lgbt
• politics
• nonfiction
• activism
• queer

"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• queer
• lgbt

"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A History of My Brief Body book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

Similar categories in Alyson Escalante's Gender Nihilism: An Anti-Manifesto book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• theory
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Alfredo M. Bonanno's Armed Joy book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• anarchism

"Non esiste il lavoro liberato."

-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy

"Che follia l’amore per il lavoro! Che grande abilità scenica quella del capitale che ha saputo fare amare lo sfruttamento agli sfruttati, la corda agli impiccati e la catena agli schiavi."

-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy

"Whatever kind of revolutionary would be one who claimed to destroy the model, the wrapping, the very foundations of the revolution? By attacking concepts such as quantification, class, project, model…"

-Alfredo M. Bonanno, Armed Joy

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Any Other City book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Vikky Storm's The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• lgbt
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Benjamin S. Case's Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Hil Malatino's Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• lgbt
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• social science
• lgbt
• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• anarchism
• activism
• queer

Similar categories in Scott Branson's Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• theory
• politics
• nonfiction
• anarchism
• activism

Similar categories in Solomon J. Brager's Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory book and Mary Nardini Gang's Be Gay Do Crime

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt