7 Top queer books like Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies by Joanne Barker

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Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

By: Joanne Barker

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics …

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1. As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance

By: None

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of fed… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
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2. Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization

By: Scott L. Morgensen

4.53

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societi… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt

3. Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality

By: None , None , None

4.50

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

This landmark book combines the voices of Native Americans and non-Indians, anthropologists and oth… read more

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4. The Location of Culture

By: Homi K. Bhabha , Teresa Miller

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working… read more

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5. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

By: None

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Over the past forty years, recognition has become the dominant mode of negotiation and decolonizati… read more

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6. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

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7. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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8. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

4.52

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more

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  • race
"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."

-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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9. Swimming in the Dark

By: Tomasz Jedrowski

4.26

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Little sparks cause fires too."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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10. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
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11. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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12. Goddess of Filth

By: V. Castro

3.63

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash som… read more

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  • feminism
"Why the black lipstick? Is this goddess a Goth?"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"I have traveled a long way through light and volatile stardust. The stars in the night sky are moth holes in space-time and the bodies of the larvae between each hole are the means of travel"

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

"Be smart, but not too smart. Be beautiful, but not so pretty as to make other females mad. Be successful, but not bossy or overly ambitious. Nobody likes a mouthy brown woman. Be a declawed kitten."

-V. Castro, Goddess of Filth

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13. The Queen of the Cicadas

By: V. Castro

3.73

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

2018: Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm i… read more

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14. Dead Silence

By: S.A. Barnes

3.80

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her … read more

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"Silence has a different quality to it when you're the only one left alive. It's thicker. Heavier somehow."

-S.A. Barnes, Dead Silence

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15. Love in the Time of Serial Killers

By: Alicia Thompson

3.31

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Turns out that reading nothing but true crime isn’t exactly conducive to modern dating—and one woma… read more

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" Hmm, if only there were a place where one could go for information... a place that had free books on every topic you could think of... (book stack emoji) Smiling, I typed back the interwebs? just to…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"I'm not comparing him to Most Wanted sketches anymore, if that's what you're asking." "The start of every beautiful friendship." "Shut up," I said. "You know I have a black, mistrustful pit where my …"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"... Old neighbors viewed each other strangely, and as strangers,'" I said softly to myself. From behind me, Conner laughed. "If anyone is acting strangely here, it's you. This is a real '"'Tis," repl…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

"You're sweet," I said. "Sweet on you." I groaned at the cheesiness of that line, giving him a playful swat. But the truth was that it wormed its way into my heart regardless. It made me dream, for on…"

-Alicia Thompson, Love in the Time of Serial Killers

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16. Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

By: Amy Lea

3.73

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

A romance novel–obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love in thi… read more

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"I'm sorry you feel so threatened by depictions of fictional men doing more than the bare minimum."

-Amy Lea, Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

"My dear, you have a lot to learn about relationships if you think all problems can be solved by a single conversation."

-Amy Lea, Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

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17. My Roommate Is a Vampire

By: Jenna Levine

3.47

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

True love is at stake in this charming, debut romantic comedy. Cassie Greenberg loves being an a… read more

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"My pots and pans are in the shop. Being repaired."

-Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

"And, yes, okay, he was a vampire. That did present some legitimate challenges. But that didn't change how good he was or the fact that I wanted him more than I'd ever wanted anyone in my life."

-Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

"I don't think there's anything particularly special about me at all." His jaw clenched. "Then please," he began, his voice hoarse and dripping with promise, " please allow me to show you how wrong yo…"

-Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

"Some vampires have impressive abilities like turning wine into blood, or being able to fly, or turning back time, he continued ruefully. Unfortunately, all I can do is somewhat involuntarily conjure …"

-Jenna Levine, My Roommate Is a Vampire

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18. This Wound Is a World

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.49

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to “cut a hole in the sky to wo… read more

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  • race
  • lgbt
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • queer
". . . if i am somehow, miraculously, bodied then/ my skin is a collage of meditations on love and shattered selves."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

"when love looks into the rubble of heartbreak he sees his kookum standing there and he thinks about how she made old worlds feel livable again and about how those who died already never forget what i…"

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World

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19. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

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  • queer
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
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20. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

By: Joshua Whitehead

4.18

Format: 120 pages, ebook

Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more

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  • queer
  • indigenous
  • lgbt
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"

-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

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21. Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

By: Joanne Barker

4.22

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics … read more

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  • race
  • lgbt
  • feminism
  • gender
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • womens
  • sociology
  • queer

6 Top nonfiction books like Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies by Joanne Barker

Transform Your Habits

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance

None

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization

Scott L. Morgensen

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

Leah Thomas

4.15

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17 must-read fiction books like A Minor Chorus by Billy-Ray Belcourt

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If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga

3.92

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The Future

Catherine Leroux

3.32

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Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead

3.95

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The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr

3.46

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