19 must-read queer books like Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender by Stef M. Shuster

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Similar categories in bell hooks's All About Love: New Visions book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction
• sociology

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening"

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love. "

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

"Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair."

-bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Similar categories in Qiu Miaojin's Notes of a Crocodile book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• 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

Similar categories in Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Similar categories in William Carlos Williams's Howl and Other Poems book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• queer
• lgbt

"You too must seek the sun..."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"America this is quite serious"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"The beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

"We are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter"

-William Carlos Williams, Howl and Other Poems

Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• transgender
• lgbt
• 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

Similar categories in bell hooks's Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction
• history

Similar categories in Karl Marx's Das Kapital book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction
• history

Similar categories in Richard Siken's Crush book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Robin D.G. Kelley's Discourse on Colonialism book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

Similar categories in Marcel Proust's Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1) book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

Similar categories in James Joyce's Ulysses book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

"Shite and onions!"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Let my country die for me."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"Be just before you are generous."

-James Joyce, Ulysses

"no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns"

-James Joyce, Ulysses

Similar categories in Dean Spade's Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

Similar categories in Mike Curato's Flamer book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Henry Hoke's Open Throat book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• queer
• lgbt

Similar categories in Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction

"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Similar categories in Ross Gay's The Book of Delights: Essays book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction

"The more stuff you love the happier you will be."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...which is simply called sharing what we love, what we find beautiful, which is an ethics."

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"Is sorrow the true wild? And if it is—and if we join them—your wild to mine—what’s that? For joining, too, is a kind of annihilation. What if we joined our sorrows, I’m saying. I’m saying: What if th…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

"...in witnessing someone's being touched, we are also witnessing someone's being moved, the absence of which in ourselves is a sorrow, and a sacrifice. And witnessing the absence of movement in ourse…"

-Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays

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 Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• 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 Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• 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

Similar categories in Imogen Binnie's Nevada book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• gender
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"James does what anybody would do when they see somebody they'd like to know: he ignores the shit out of her."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"It's like I got drunk all the time not because I'm a total addict but because it was a coping mechanism to deal with being unhappy"

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Oh, Williamsburg. There was a point when you seemed like a scary, tough neighborhood, but now it's obvious that the graffiti on your walls gets put there by art students."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

"Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs."

-Imogen Binnie, Nevada

Similar categories in Shon Faye's The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

Similar categories in Rebecca K. Reilly's Greta & Valdin book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• queer
• lgbt

"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

Similar categories in Jules Gill-Peterson's Histories of the Transgender Child book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• history
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• academic
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Dean Spade's Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction
• sociology

"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 Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• queer
• transgender
• 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 Eli Clare's Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction
• queer
• lgbt

"But in today’s world, being seen as intellectually, cognitively, or developmentally disabled is dangerous because intelligence and verbal communication are entrenched markers of personhood."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Simply put, the DSM is a highly constructed projection placed on top of particular body-mind experiences in order to label, organize, and make meanings of them from within a specific worldview."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Simply put, diagnosis wields immense power. It can provide us access to vital medical technology or shame us, reveal a path toward less pain or get us locked up. It opens doors and slams them shut."

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

"Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birt…"

-Eli Clare, Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure

Similar categories in Safiya Umoja Noble's Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction
• sociology
• science

"This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy..."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"If Google isn’t responsible for its algorithm, then who is?"

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

"Where men shape technology, they shape it to the exclusion of women, especially Black women."

-Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Similar categories in Cat Fitzpatrick's The Call-Out book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"Then Rod comes up, his glasses glistening. He doesn't remove them. He starts to sway. Is he high? - "Hello. Are you all listening? I'm glad so many of you are here today, Because as of now you're par…"

-Cat Fitzpatrick, The Call-Out

Similar categories in Miss Major Griffin-Gracy's Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• history
• transgender
• lgbt
• 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 Shira Hassan's Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• nonfiction
• history
• queer
• lgbt

"Now I think about how much shutting off was required, just to exist in day-to-day experience. You couldn’t express shock at everyone dying right in front of your eyes, because shock felt like a form …"

-Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis

Similar categories in Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender book and Stef M. Shuster's Trans Medicine: The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

• history
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• medicine
• academic
• nonfiction
• sociology
• science