Newly revised and updated, this classic manifesto is "a foundational text for anyone hoping to understand transgender politics and culture in the U.S. today" (NPR) *Named as one of 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time by Ms. Magazine* A landmark of...

From an esteemed scholar, a richly textured, authoritative history of sex and sexuality in America―the first major account in three decades.Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the...

This deeply-reported narrative illuminates the battle for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Boy Scouts of America, a decades-long struggle led by teenagers, parents, activists, and everyday Americans.Weaving in his own experience as a scout and journalist, Mike De...

The shocking and illuminating memoir of an anonymous submissive immersed in the BDSM community, reckoning with the divide between our desires and the expectations and strictures that keep us from pursuing them.Sonnet is a writer. She is a professional...

This "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the...

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...

Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyWinner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle AwardsA Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of...

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...

Most modern discussions of the relationship of biological sex to gender presuppose that there are two genders, male and female, founded on the two biological sexes. But not all cultures share this essentialist assumption, and even Western societies have...

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 Disciplining; lining foucault, Jana Sawicki argues that a foucauldian feminism is possible. She rejects the view that the power of phallocentric discourse is total.

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...