Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready culprit for everything from stock market crashes to the…
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1. The Cancer Journals
By: Audre Lorde
4.43
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Moving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political … read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
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"Somedays, if bitterness were a whetstone, I could be sharp as grief."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"Power comes from moving into whatever I fear most that cannot be avoided."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"One never really forgets the primary lessons of survival, if one continues to survive."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
"The enormity of our task, to turn the world around. It feels like turning my life around, inside out."-Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals
2. Bright Dead Things
By: Ada Limon
3.57
Format: None pages,
Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you k… read more
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3. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
By: Anne Fausto-Sterling
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity bio… read more
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4. Feminist, Queer, Crip
By: None
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
In Feminist, Queer, CripAlison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies… read more
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5. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- science
"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
6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- history
- health
- feminism
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
7. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- 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
8. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
By: Shon Faye
4.55
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more
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- feminism
- 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
9. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts
By: Paul B. Preciado
4.26
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
10. I'm Afraid of Men
By: Vivek Shraya
4.23
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A trans artist explores how masculinity was imposed on her as a boy and continues to haunt her as a… read more
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- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Queerness is associated with freedom from boundaries."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Do these parts still exist somewhere inside of me with the capacity to be reactivated?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"Why is being touch by strangers — strangers who refuse to identify themselves — a form of flattery?"-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
"My brownness turns out to be a form of queerness in and of itself and makes me too queer for gay men."-Vivek Shraya, I'm Afraid of Men
11. Entrances and Exits
By: Michael Richards
4.12
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more
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- nonfiction
12. T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
By: Carole Hooven
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Testosterone: Misunderstood. Mythologized. Controversial. A Harvard evolutionary biologist debun… read more
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- health
- feminism
- gender
- biology
- nonfiction
- science
13. Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
By: Eliot Schrefer
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This groundbreaking illustrated YA nonfiction title from two-time National Book Award finalist and … read more
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- science
- biology
- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Traditions are just peer pressure from dead people."-Eliot Schrefer, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality
14. Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
By: Thomas Page McBee
4.22
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
Thomas McBee, a trans man, sets out to uncover what makes a man—and what being a “good” man even me… read more
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- gender
- nonfiction
- queer
"Most of us experience gender conditioning so young—research shows it begins in infancy—that we misunderstand the relationship between nature and nurture, culture and biology, fitting in and being one…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Boxing breaks many of the binaries that men are conditioned to believe about our bodies, our genders, ourselves. With its cover of 'realness' and violence, it provides room for what so many men lack:…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"I thought about the advantages thrown at me for an aesthetic that looked like a birthright. I thought about passing, and how it erased a part of me, and how hormones responded to context, and how rac…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
"Millennial guys seemed, to the sociologists and anthropologists who studied them, to have attitudes toward women that portended a new era of equity—especially at work. But the reality was, indeed, fa…"-Thomas Page McBee, Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man
15. Park Cruising: What Happens When We Wander Off the Path
By: Marcus McCann
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex. Park Cruising takes a long l… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
16. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
17. The Male Gazed
By: Manuel Betancourt
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Featuring deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas—all in the s… read more
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18. The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
By: Combahee River Collective
4.72
Format: 21 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective Statement was issued in 1977. An essential piece of feminist theory a… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- queer
"In the practice of our politics we do not believe that the end always justifies the means."-Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
"Although we are feminists and lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand."-Combahee River Collective, The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties
19. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue
By: Ryan Holiday
3.98
Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition
An NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018!A stunning story about how power works in the modern age--t… read more
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- history
20. Behindert und stolz: Warum meine Identität politisch ist und Ableismus uns alle etwas angeht
By: Luisa L'Audace
4.74
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Luisa L'Audace wächst als einziges behindertes Kind in ihrem Heimatdorf auf. Warum sie im Sportunte… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Testosterone: An Unauthorized Biography
By: Rebecca M. Jordan-Young
4.09
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Testosterone is a familiar villain, a ready culprit for everything from stock market crashes to the… read more
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- nonfiction
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