2024 Stonewall Honor Award for NonfictionThe future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activistMiss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender...

Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans?In this powerful, extensively researched,...

A “riveting” and “indispensable” (Alison Bechdel) cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic spacesFor as long as queer women have existed, they’ve created gathering grounds where they can...

‘When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?’ - Judith Butler, Excitable SpeechExcitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler’s most important books. Examining in turn debates about hate...

An ode to mad love, awarded the Prix de Flore in 1999.Published in 1999 and awarded that year’s Prix de Flore, Nicolas Pages marks a departure from the Sadean preoccupations of Guillaume Dustan’s first three novels; it is, in essence, a love story...

An in-depth look at the global movement to curtail LGBTI rights―and how the LGBTI movement responds to itIn the past three decades, remarkable progress has been made in numerous countries for the rights of individuals marginalized due to their sexual...

A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States.Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors...

A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach...

Award-winning historian Antonia Fraser brilliantly portrays a courageous and compassionate woman who refused to be curbed by the personal and political constraints of her time.Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century society with her vivacity, her...

In Insurgent Aesthetics Ronak K. Kapadia theorizes the world-making power of contemporary art responses to US militarism in the Greater Middle East. He traces how new forms of remote killing, torture, confinement, and surveillance have created a...

In this book, the author attempts to integrate previous work on Foucault with feminist theory. She expands discussion of feminism and sexual liberation, charts the impact of Foucault on humanistic studies, and picks up an aspect of the mothering theme,...

An intimate look at gay and bisexual daddies and their younger partnersOver the past several years the term “daddy” has increased in popularity. Although the term has existed for centuries, its meaning has changed over time, and today can refer to...

2024 Carol Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical AssociationThe grassroots queer activism and legal challenges that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gay and lesbian equality.In 2003 the US Supreme Court overturned...

Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, this urgent book from historian Felicia Kornbluh reveals two movement victories in New York that forever changed the politics of reproductive rights nationallyBefore there was a “Jane...

"A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read." ―Clara Bingham, The GuardianThe history of NOW―its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission―told through the work of three members.In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite,...

"A fascinating and exhaustive explanation as to why emotions are a political issue."–Brit Dawson, AnOther MagazineThe work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions Comforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing...

“The best book I have read on the politics of reproduction. It raises complex theoretical and strategic questions, in a clear and accessible way, and represents an important breakthrough in feminist thinking.”– Leslie Doyal, author of What Makes Women...

From two lawyers at the forefront of the reproductive rights movement, this fully updated book shares bold strategies meant to help restore and expand reproductive and sexual rights. Reproductive freedom has never been in more dire straits. Roe v. Wade...

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"A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read." —Clara Bingham, The GuardianThe history of NOW—its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission—told through the work of three members.In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite,...