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  The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

  A global movement guided by love.
  
  Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference an…

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  Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation

  A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves.
  
  Have you ever felt uncomfortable or not "at home" in your body? In this book, the founders of Body Trust, licen…

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  Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia

  In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the historical development of prothin, antifat ideologies deployed in support of Western, patriarchal white sup…

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  Notes on ‘Camp’

  'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'
  
  These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Son…

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  Sharks in the Time of Saviors

  In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears …

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  Stone Butch Blues

  A free PDF copy of this book is available at the author's website.
  
  Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Goldberg, a masculine girl growing up i…

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  Private Rites

  From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world
  
  It’s been raining for a long…

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  Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation

  What if everyone was family?
  
  We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families can be places of love and care, but for many they are sites of pain: from abandonment and neglect, to ab…

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  The Death of Vivek Oji

  Raised by a distant father and an understanding but overprotective mother, Vivek suffers disorienting blackouts, moments of disconnection between self and surroundings. As adolescence gives way to adu…

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  The Deep

  Yetu holds the memories for her people.
  
  Her people, the wajinru – water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slavers – live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, to…

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  Bad Girls

  Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale about finding a community among fellow outcasts.
  
  Born in the small Argentine town of Mina Clavero, Ca…

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  Radical Intimacy

  An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism.
  
  Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' mean…

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  The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

  Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of the country's population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarised 'debate', which…

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  Bad Feminist

  Pink is my favorite color. I used to say my favorite color was black to be cool, but it is pink—all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I’m not doing it iron…

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  The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

  The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-ma…

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  Love You Forever

  An extraordinarily different story by Robert Munsch is a gentle affirmation of the love a parent feels for their child—forever.
  
  "A young woman holds her newborn son and looks at him lovingly. Softly sh…

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  Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

  What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe are worthy of love?
  
  A transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a pat…

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  Who’s Afraid of Gender?

  From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.
  
  Judith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book Gender Trouble redefi…

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  Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones

  In the future, everyone will be trans. So says Lexi. She's a charismatic trans woman furious with the way she sees her trans friends treated by society and resentful of the girl who spurned her love. …

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  Brainwyrms

  From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror” (Publishers Weekly) — comes Brainwyrms, a searing body horror novel of obsession, violence and plea…

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