Books similar like Trans Power: Own Your Gender

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…

Buy this book on Amazon

Detransition, Baby

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex.

Reese a…

Buy this book on Amazon

Coexistence: Stories

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exch…

Buy this book on Amazon

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith?…

Buy this book on Amazon

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times * NPR * Vogue * Gay Times * Artforum *

“ Gay Bar is an absolute tour de force.” –Maggie Nelson

"Athert…

Buy this book on Amazon

Mrs. S

A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transformative power of desire, and the dissonance between self and place, by White Review Fiction Prize shortl…

Buy this book on Amazon

Pageboy

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now…

Buy this book on Amazon

This Wound Is a World

Buy this book on Amazon

A History of My Brief Body

In this stunning essay-collection-cum-prose-poem-cycle, Belcourt meditates on the difficulty and necessity of finding joy as a queer NDN in a country that denies that joy all too often. Out of the 'ru…

Buy this book on Amazon

We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

Buy this book on Amazon

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

Drawn from Lou Sullivan’s meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.

We Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected…

Buy this book on Amazon

Am I Trans Enough? How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self

Buy this book on Amazon

A Minor Chorus

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write a novel. He is adrift, caught between his childhood on the reservation and this new life of the urban…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disabled. Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about the last two years of surviving COVID-19 as a disabled femme o…

Buy this book on Amazon

Bad Gays: A Homosexual History

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been o…

Buy this book on Amazon

When Haru Was Here

Buy this book on Amazon

Time Is a Mother

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being determined to sur…

Buy this book on Amazon

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear that it's dangerous; that women get abused and killed. You often hear, "There should be a law against …

Buy this book on Amazon

Bellies

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.

It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out with friends at their local university drag night, Tom buys Ming a drink. Confident and witty, a magneti…

Buy this book on Amazon

How It Works Out

Buy this book on Amazon

Trans Power: Own Your Gender

Trans Power: Own Your Gender similar books