You Be You!: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family
By: Jonathan Robert Branfman
4.28
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
This is an illustrated children's book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, sexual orientation…
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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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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
By: Elaine N. Aron
3.85
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food… read more
Want to Read $ 9.41Similar categories in Elaine N. Aron's The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You book and Jonathan Robert Branfman's You Be You!: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family
- nonfiction
"In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"Being highly sensitive does not at all rule out being, in your own way, a tenacious survivor."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"But psychology is not perfect. It can only reflect the biases of the culture from which it comes."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
"With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark."-Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
3. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
By: Florence Williams
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more
Want to Read $ 9.83Similar categories in Florence Williams's The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative book and Jonathan Robert Branfman's You Be You!: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family
- nonfiction
4. Gender Queer
By: Maia Kobabe
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"I don't"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer
5. Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
By: Jessica Fern
4.40
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate se… read more
Want to Read $ 10.49Similar categories in Jessica Fern's Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy book and Jonathan Robert Branfman's You Be You!: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family
- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"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
6. Displacement
By: Kiku Hughes
4.29
Format: 283 pages, Paperback
A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japa… read more
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- middle grade
- lgbt
"A memory is too powerful a weapon."-Kiku Hughes, Displacement
"But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together, we can make sure it is not repeated."-Kiku Hughes, Displacement
7. The Girl from the Sea
By: Molly Knox Ostertag
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first lov… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
"Sometimes plans must change, my love."-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
"*creepy ghost whispers* morgan... THAT'S IT SHE'S DEAD"-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
"Sometimes you have to let your life get messy. That's how you get to the good parts"-Molly Knox Ostertag, The Girl from the Sea
8. Bodies Are Cool
By: Tyler Feder
4.61
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
This cheerful love-your-body picture book for preschoolers is an exuberant read-aloud with bright a… read more
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- childrens
- lgbt
- picture books
- nonfiction
- queer
9. Banned Book Club
By: Kim Hyun Sook
3.97
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her … read more
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- nonfiction
"In times like this, no act is apolitical."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"Everyone has a right to the truth. But I don't owe you mine."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"But you can learn a lot about history by figuring out what people wanted to hide."-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
"But if they're going to keep calling us communists, we might as well learn what that means!"-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club
10. Julián Is a Mermaid
By: Jessica Love
4.51
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and… read more
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- queer
- picture books
- childrens
- lgbt
11. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
By: Dean Spade
4.38
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more
Want to Read $ 7.39Similar categories in Dean Spade's Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) book and Jonathan Robert Branfman's You Be You!: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family
- nonfiction
- social justice
"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)
12. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
13. Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
By: Jennifer Palmieri
3.90
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling vol… read more
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- nonfiction
"Her-story. Don't search for your role is his-tory, write your own. The future is female. The past was too it's just that no one thought it important enough to bother writing it all down."-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
"Emotions were running so high in the country that I feared there was going to be some violence before the election. I even half-jokingly said to Hillary one day in October that it was beginning to fe…"-Jennifer Palmieri, Dear Madam President: An Open Letter to the Women Who Will Run the World
14. The Shape of Water
By: Guillermo del Toro
3.88
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
It is 1962, and Elisa Esposito—mute her whole life, orphaned as a child—is struggling with her humd… read more
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"Feet are what connect you to the ground, and when you are poor, none of that ground belongs to you."-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
"What would feeling like somebody feel like? To suddenly exist not only in your world, but someone else’s as well?"-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
"She holds him, he holds her, they hold each other, and all is dark, all is light, all is ugliness, all is beauty, all is pain, all is grief, all is never, all is forever."-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
"But what is intelligence? Is intelligence calculations and computations? Or must true intelligence contain a moral component? Each passing minute, I believe more that this is the case."-Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water
15. Different Kinds of Fruit
By: Kyle Lukoff
4.08
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
In this funny and hugely heartfelt novel from a Stonewall Award winner, a sixth-grader’s life is tu… read more
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- queer
- middle grade
- childrens
- lgbt
16. Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.82
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
A new essay collection from Samantha Irby about aging, marriage, settling down with step-children i… read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
17. A Short History of Trans Misogyny
By: Jules Gill-Peterson
4.47
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
An accessible, bold new vision for the future of intersectional trans feminism, called "one of the … read more
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- nonfiction
- queer
- lgbt
18. The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
By: Cathy O'Neil
3.39
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial co… read more
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- nonfiction
19. It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
By: Theresa Thorn
4.27
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A picture book that introduces the concept of gender identity to the youngest reader from writer Th… read more
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- parenting
- childrens
- lgbt
- picture books
- nonfiction
- gender identity
- queer
20. Pink, Blue, and You!: Questions for Kids about Gender Stereotypes
By: Elise Gravel
4.39
Format: 40 pages, Library Binding
Simple, accessible, and direct, this picture book is perfect for kids and parents or teachers to re… read more
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- parenting
- childrens
- lgbt
- picture books
- nonfiction
- social justice
- gender identity
- queer
21. You Be You!: The Kid’s Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Family
By: Jonathan Robert Branfman
4.28
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
This is an illustrated children's book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, sexual orientation… read more
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- childrens
- lgbt
- middle grade
- picture books
- nonfiction
- social justice
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- gender identity
- queer
