Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
By: Sylvia Rivera
4.40
Format: 60 pages, ebook
Hell YES! A collection of interviews, speeches and essays regarding radical queer uprising and acti…
Want to Read"You’re not a woman!"-Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
"You’re not a woman!"-Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
"I’m not even in the back of the bus. My community is being pulled by a rope around our neck by the bumper of the damn bus that stays in the front. Gay liberation but transgender nothing!"-Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
"I’m not even in the back of the bus. My community is being pulled by a rope around our neck by the bumper of the damn bus that stays in the front. Gay liberation but transgender nothing!"-Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
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1. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
2. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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- politics
- race
- history
- nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
3. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta
4.50
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more
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- politics
- queer
- transgender
- 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
4. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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- race
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
5. There Should Be Flowers
By: Joshua Jennifer Espinoza
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Espinoza's debut is a searing interrogation of the world and the self at once. Here, the body is a… read more
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- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
6. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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- feminism
- gender
- queer
- lgbt
7. Les Guérillères
By: Monique Wittig , David Le Vay
4.62
Format: None pages,
A landmark of lesbian fiction, Les Guerilleres is about a war of the sexes, where women 'engage in … read more
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- feminism
- queer
- lgbt
8. Bad Girls
By: Camila Sosa Villada
4.43
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more
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- feminism
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls
9. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
By: Irene Solà
3.91
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more
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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas
10. El cielo de la selva
By: Elaine Vilar Madruga
4.37
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
La selva es un dios hambriento. Uno que permite vivir a salvo en sus dominios pero exige el más alt… read more
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11. La mala costumbre
By: Alana S. Portero
4.55
Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition
Narrada desde una singular y desgarradora voz en primera persona, La mala costumbre recorre la adol… read more
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- feminism
- queer
- transgender
- lgbt
"Cuando reímos con ganas no tenemos edad, lo hacemos igual durante toda nuestra vida y puede adivinarse en nuestra mueca la niña que fuimos o la anciana que seremos."-Alana S. Portero, La mala costumbre
12. Grass
By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
4.52
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s live… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Frágiles ramas que tiemblan en las postrimerías del largo invierno. Dentro albergan la energía de una vida nueva que pronto brotará y abrirá grietas en la corteza La tierra despertará de su hibernaci…"-Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass
13. Panza de burro
By: Andrea Abreu López
3.80
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro
"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro
14. Ni musas ni sumisas: una revisión de la historia del arte occidental con perspectiva feminista
By: Helena Sotoca García
4.13
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
¿Dónde están las mujeres en el mundo del arte? ¿Que papel tienen? ¿Cómo se ha trasmitido su histori… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
15. Material de construcción
By: Eider Rodríguez
4.12
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
«Una poética implacable contra el dolor, una mirada al mundo que redefine el pasado, un modo de ent… read more
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16. (h)amor 9: amigas
By: Sandra Cendal
4.02
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
17. Maricas malas: Construir un futuro colectivo desde la disidencia
By: Christo Casas
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Un texto brillante en favor de la libertad y las disidencias en el que descubriremos cómo lucha LGT… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
18. El Power Ranger rosa
By: Christo Casas
4.45
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Un joven español da tumbos por Berlín. En su teléfono conviven apps para buscar piso, trabajo y sex… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
19. DC Pride 2023 #1 (DC Cultural Anthologies)
By: Grant Morrison
3.95
Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition
Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy go to extreme measures to get a little alone time…but there’s nowhere o… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
20. Lesbian peoples: Material for a dictionary
By: Monique Wittig
4.30
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
21. Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
By: Sylvia Rivera
4.40
Format: 60 pages, ebook
Hell YES! A collection of interviews, speeches and essays regarding radical queer uprising and acti… read more
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- race
- history
- transgender
- lgbt
- feminism
- politics
- gender
- nonfiction
- essays
- queer
"You’re not a woman!"-Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
"I’m not even in the back of the bus. My community is being pulled by a rope around our neck by the bumper of the damn bus that stays in the front. Gay liberation but transgender nothing!"-Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
"They have been brainwashed by this fucked up system that has condemened us and by doctors that call us a disease and a bunch of freaks. Our family and friends have also condemned us because of their …"-Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
"The only reason they tolerated the transgender community in some of these movements was because we were gung-ho, we were front liners. We didn’t take no shit from nobody. We had nothing to lose. You …"-Sylvia Rivera, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR): Survival, Revolt, and Queer Antagonist Struggle
