8 must-read queer lit books like A Natural History of Transition by Callum Angus

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Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Drag King Dreams book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• transgender
• lgbt
• queer lit
• fiction
• queer

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• transgender
• lgbt
• queer lit
• fiction
• fantasy
• queer

"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Similar categories in Jewelle L. Gómez's The Gilda Stories book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

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 Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"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 Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"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 Lou Sullivan's We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• queer lit
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"I don't even know if there was anyone that's ever felt as I do.. how they coped, what they did...how do I find out what someone like me does?"

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"A big fear of mine is that I will die before the gender professionals acknowledge that someone like me exists, and then I really won't exist to prove them wrong."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"In a lot of ways I think the problem is I spend too much time seeing myself though other people's eyes and not really being in my body and enjoying myself and relaxing in my image."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

"I finally said, "Let's put it this way: I'd rather lose you than stop my shots.""You mean that chemical is more important to you than I am?""No, I am more important to me than you are."

-Lou Sullivan, We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

Similar categories in Casey Plett's Little Fish book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• transgender
• lgbt
• queer lit
• fiction
• queer

"Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part."

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or h…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

"What kind of world does the core of your brain expect that you, you personally get to live in? Wendy wanted to be loved. However easily she might have abandoned or ruined her prospects, Wendy did sti…"

-Casey Plett, Little Fish

Similar categories in Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• magical realism
• transgender
• lgbt
• anthologies
• queer lit
• short stories
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Casey Plett's A Dream of a Woman book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• transgender
• lgbt
• anthologies
• short stories
• fiction
• queer

Similar categories in Alexis Pauline Gumbs's Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2) book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• queer

"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"

-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)

"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"

-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)

Similar categories in Andrea Lawlor's Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• magical realism
• transgender
• lgbt
• queer lit
• fiction
• fantasy
• queer

"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"

-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Similar categories in Lee Mandelo's The Woods All Black book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy
• queer

"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

Similar categories in Chuck Tingle's Bury Your Gays book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• horror
• queer
• fiction
• lgbt

"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• fiction
• queer
• transgender
• lgbt

"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

Similar categories in Hazel Jane Plante's Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• transgender
• lgbt
• queer lit
• fiction
• queer

"Ranjit: I'm sorry, Ian. I still love Captain Alphonse. Ian: But he's a dirty disappearing dog. Ranjit: You may be right. But we love the dog we love, dirt and all."

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"If you spend hundreds of hours with someone, you have a catalogue of tiny memories. As you live your life, those tiny memories snap and crackle your synapses. It can be overwhelming, like the world i…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"I'd started jotting down my memories of Vivian. There was so much about her that I knew might be forgotten if I didn't try to preserve it. I didn't want her to disappear from this world, unremembered…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

"When Vivian died, my world collapsed. I wept for what felt like days, weeks, months. Everything and everyone around me receded. Objects blurred. Colours drained. Sounds muffled. Vivian was my favorit…"

-Hazel Jane Plante, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A History of My Brief Body book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• queer
• lgbt

"I'm as lonely and as brief as a country."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Living in a world where people are guns is a brutal legacy."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Regardless, I forgive them just as I forgive naive versions of myself."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

"Teens don't read for beauty, but to practice the art of disappearance."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body

Similar categories in Megan Milks's Slug and Other Stories book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• lgbt
• queer lit
• short stories
• fiction
• horror
• fantasy
• queer

Similar categories in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• transgender
• lgbt
• fiction
• horror
• queer

Similar categories in H. Felix Chau Bradley's Personal Attention Roleplay book and Callum Angus's A Natural History of Transition

• lgbt
• anthologies
• short stories
• fiction
• queer