18 best-selling nonfiction books like Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self by Rae McDaniel

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Similar categories in Julia Serano's Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• 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 None's Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

Similar categories in Susan Stryker's Transgender History book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

Similar categories in Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• self help
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• queer

"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Similar categories in Laura Kate Dale's Gender Euphoria book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."

-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria

Similar categories in Jessica Fern's Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• self help
• lgbt
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• queer

"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

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 Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• 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 Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• self help
• transgender
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• queer

"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 Kit Heyam's Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Similar categories in Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• nonfiction
• lgbt
• queer

"It [i.e. disability justice] means we are not left behind; we are beloved, kindred, needed."

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"To me, one quality of disability justice culture is that it is simultaneously beautiful and practical. Poetry and dance are as valuable as a blog post about access hacks - because they're equally imp…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"Disability Justice allowed me to understand that me writing from my sickbed wasn't me being week or uncool or not a real writer but a time-honoured crip creative practice. And that understanding allo…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

"One of the central loves of my life is coaching and supporting other writers. Specifically, writers who identify as BIPOC, sick/Mad/disabled, queer/trans, femme, working-class/poor, or some or all of…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• self help
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• audiobook

Similar categories in Judith Butler's Who's Afraid of Gender? book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

Similar categories in Jennifer Mullan's Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• self help

Similar categories in Schuyler Bailar's He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Ananda Lima's Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook

Similar categories in Meg-John Barker's Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• psychology
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• queer

"Indigenous, Black, and Brown bodies are often non-consensually objectified, exoticized, and touched in public, especially, but not only, if presenting as feminine. It's as if bodies that "don't matte…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"The partner/friend binary places coupled, monogamous, romantic, sexual, partnered love right at the pinnacle of human experience. Like the sexual and gender binaries this is quite a new, Western domi…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"Perhaps an overarching binary when it comes to love and relationships is the one which privileges partners over friends. You can see this reflected in phrases like "just friends", "more than friends"…"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

"Knowing who we are, what we want, and being able to express our needs, wants, and desires - so that we can find others to share them - makes us poor targets for capitalism, because we can now access …"

-Meg-John Barker, Life Isn't Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between

Similar categories in Megan Anna Neff's Self-Care for Autistic People book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• self help

Similar categories in Krys Malcolm Belc's The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Dianna E. Anderson's In Transit: Being Non-Binary in a World of Dichotomies book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Devon Price's Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• self help
• gender
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• queer

Similar categories in Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self book and Rae McDaniel's Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step into Your Most Authentic Self

• audiobook
• self help
• transgender
• lgbt
• gender
• psychology
• mental health
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• queer