This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation―Poems, Prose, Practices
By: Jezz Chung
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself—and the world—through self-healing, transformation, a…
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1. The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
By: Dossie Easton , Catherine A. Liszt
3.93
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethicall… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- self help
"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
2. D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
By: Ingri d'Aulaire , Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
4.42
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Here are the gods, goddesses, and legendary figures of ancient Greece--mighty Zeus, with his fistfu… read more
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3. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire , Donaldo Macedo , Myra Bergman Ramos , None
4.30
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in En… read more
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- nonfiction
"Critical consciousness, they say, is anarchic."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"People educate each other through the mediation of the world."-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
"Word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone"-Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
4. On Strike Against God
By: Joanna Russ
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Joanna Russ's On Strike Against God is remarkable for its deft intertwining of many themes: not onl… read more
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5. Bad Feminist
By: Roxane Gay
4.08
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink--al… read more
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6. Flamer
By: Mike Curato
4.32
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author and artist Mike Curato draws on his own experiences in Flamer, his debut graph… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
7. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
8. The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
By: Ryder Carroll
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, online and off, but none of them fit th… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
"It's part organization, part soul-searching, part dream-weaving."-Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
"In the most connected time in history, we're quickly losing touch with ourselves."-Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
"Prioritize the items you feel strongest about or are the most time sensitive, and strike off the items you feel “meh"-Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
"No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not enitrely own us. It can't take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action."-Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future
9. My Government Means to Kill Me
By: Rasheed Newson
4.25
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"So I loved my sister, but held that love loosely in my arms, anticipating its death and mourning it as it lived"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"...Generations of black men had been frequenting Mt. Morris since the Harlem Renaissance. Rumor had it that Countee Cullen ditched his wife after he and Harold Jackman made Mt. Morris their regular r…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"Zee had only grinned at me when I was valuable to her. I'd go on to tangle with other bosses and authority figures, and that dynamic never changed. Affection never outlasted need. This was the first …"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
"The theory goes that governmental agencies don't accidentally make accessing information or resources difficult. They do this shit on purpose. The forms are confusing, and the record keeping is ass-b…"-Rasheed Newson, My Government Means to Kill Me
10. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
By: Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.53
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
11. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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- nonfiction
"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
12. Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.55
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and perfor… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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
13. The Honey Witch
By: Sydney J. Shields
3.66
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The Honey Witch of Innisfree can never find true love. That is her curse to bear. But when a young … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"But what happens when the girl keeps living, when she ages proudly and defiantly, without abandoning imagination, or stories, or that secret wish to find magic wherever it hides? Well, then the poets…"-Sydney J. Shields, The Honey Witch
14. Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong
By: Katie Gee Salisbury
3.99
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of H… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Anita de Monte Laughs Last
By: Xóchitl González
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more
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"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last
16. Nervous: Essays on Heritage and Healing
By: Jen Soriano
4.34
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses sci… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
17. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
By: Rupa Marya
4.31
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, … read more
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- nonfiction
18. Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power
By: Devon Price
4.33
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Learn to identify—and combat—Systemic Shame, the feeling of self-hatred and disempowerment that com… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- self help
19. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining
By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more
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- queer
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- self help
20. Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimagining the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World--Practices for connecting somatics, nature, and social change
By: Abigail Rose Clarke
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer A body-based healing… read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
21. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
By: Prentis Hemphill
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more
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- nonfiction
- self help
22. Molly's Tuxedo
By: Vicki Johnson
4.50
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
*2024 NCTE Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction For Children Recommended Book and 2024 ALA … read more
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- queer
- lgbt
23. Cash Delgado Is Living the Dream
By: Tehlor Kay Mejia
3.94
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A small-town bartender juggles motherhood and a sexual awakening in this heartwarming queer friends… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
24. The View from the Top
By: Rachel Lacey
4.45
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
When a driven businesswoman from Boston collides with a free-spirited artist on a Vermont mountains… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
25. Guillotine
By: Delilah S. Dawson
4.02
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
The Menu meets Ready of Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New … read more
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26. This Way to Change: A Gentle Guide to Personal Transformation and Collective Liberation―Poems, Prose, Practices
By: Jezz Chung
4.40
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself—and the world—through self-healing, transformation, a… read more
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- poetry
- self help
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- queer
27. Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy #12)
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.53
Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition
New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown transcends binary thinking about "accountabi… read more
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- nonfiction
28. The Message
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.58
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more
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- nonfiction
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message
29. How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
By: Johanna Hedva
4.31
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism th… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
30. Do The Work: A guide to understanding power and creating change.
By: Megan Pillow
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Changing the world starts with you ! Challenge your own biases with this super-sharp workbook. Writ… read more
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31. American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
By: Nico Lang
4.55
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight trans and nonbinary tee… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
