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Series: Indigiqueerness A Conversation about Storytelling Paperback Joshua Whitehead 9781771993913 $19.99 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Apr 30, 2023

Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead’s energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and creators who defy expectations and transcend genres.
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Series: Ace and Aro Journeys A Guide to Embracing Your Asexual or Aromantic Identity Paperback The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project 9781839976384 $26.95 SELF-HELP Apr 21, 2023

A self-help guide with the advice our authors wished they'd had when first exploring and embracing their ace and aro identities. What does it mean to be ace or aro?How should I approach the challenges that come with being ace or aro?How can I best support the ace and aro people in my life?Join the The Ace and Aro Advocacy Project (TAAAP) for a deep dive into the process of discovering and embracing your ace and aro identities. Empower yourself to explore the nuances of your identity, find and develop support networks, explore different kin... + Read More
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Series: Accepting Gender An ACT Workbook for Trans and Non-Binary People Paperback Alex Stitt 9781839974328 $26.95 SELF-HELP Apr 21, 2023

Sometimes it is difficult to identify and express our genuine gender identity. When we don't fit the ideal, the gender role, or the social script, we can feel trapped in ourselves. This "stuck" feeling is often reinforced by intrusive thoughts, mental rigidity, and self-judgement. Where do you even begin?Non-binary counselor, Alex Stitt, lays the foundations for addressing these feelings with reflective exercises and activities rooted in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) that help you understand what gender is, the spectrum of different g... + Read More
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Series: Any Other City Paperback Hazel Jane Plante 9781551529110 $22.95 FICTION Apr 18, 2023

By the author of Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian): the fictional memoir of a trans indie rock musician that reveals how the act of creation can heal trauma and even change the past. Any Other City is a two-sided fictional memoir by Tracy St. Cyr, who helms the beloved indie rock band Static Saints. Side A is a snapshot of her life from 1993, when Tracy arrives in a labyrinthine city as a fledgling artist and unexpectedly falls in with a clutch of trans women, including the iconoclastic visual artist Sadie Tang. Side B finds Tracy, n... + Read More
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Series: A Safe Girl to Love Paperback Casey Plett 9781551529134 $21.95 FICTION Apr 04, 2023

A new edition of the acclaimed debut story collection by two-time Lambda Literary Award winner Casey Plett. By the author of Little Fish and A Dream of a Woman:eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a rural Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show growing up as a trans girl can be charming, funny, frustrating, or sad, but never will it be predictable... + Read More
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Series: More Sure Poems and Interruptions Paperback A. Light Zachary 9781551529172 $19.95 POETRY Mar 28, 2023

A book of poems and interruptions, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives. In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power from a vision of life - especially queer and neurodivergent life - as a journey of continuous self-realization. These poems record the experience of locating oneself over and over again, within gender, language, family, labour, sexuality, fear, and love. Reaching back to claim queer space in the oldest Western canon, Zachary interrupts famous ... + Read More
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Series: Ace Notes Tips and Tricks on Existing in an Allo World Paperback Michele Kirichanskaya 9781839975226 $25.95 SELF-HELP Mar 21, 2023

This essential book dishes out practical advice for people on the asexual spectrum on existing in an allonormative world, including navigating family, the dating world, and much much more.What is the ace lens?Is my relationship queerplatonic?Am I sex-favorable, sex-averse or sex-repulsed?As an ace or questioning person in an oh-so-allo world, you're probably in desperate need of a cheat sheet. Allow us to introduce your new asexual best friend, an essential resource serving up the life hacks you need to fully embrace the ace. Expect interviews ... + Read More
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Series: Daddy Boy Hardcover Emerson Whitney 9781952119521 $20.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Feb 28, 2023

In 2017, Emerson Whitney was divorcing the woman they’d been with for ten years—a dominatrix they called Daddy. Living in a tent in the backyard of their marital home, Emerson was startled to realize they didn’t know what it meant to be an adult. “We often look to our gender roles as a sort of map for aging,” they write. “I wanted to know what the process looked like without that: not man-ness, not-woman-ness.” Dizzied by this realization, they turned to an activity steeped in stereotypical masculinity: storm chasing.Daddy Boy follows Emerson a... + Read More
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Series: Perfectly Queer An Illustrated Introduction Hardcover Victoria Barron 9781839974083 $20.95 SELF-HELP Feb 21, 2023

The alphabet mafia? The queer umbrella? A little confused by-or curious about-the terminology and identities that make up the LGBTQIA+ community?For allies and queer folks alike, this visual introduction uses bright and fabulous illustrations to explain the rainbow of gender identities and sexualities.Activity pages, featuring a rainbow mascot-The Rain-boa Constrictor - divide chapters on gender identity, assigned sex, sexual and romantic orientations, acronyms, and common queer-ies, to make things (hopefully) more Perfectly Queer!
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Series: Sounds Fake But Okay An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else Paperback Sarah Costello 9781839970016 $26.95 SELF-HELP Feb 21, 2023

Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.' True Love. Third Wheels. Dick pics. 'Dying alone'. Who decided this was normal? Sarah and Kayla invite you to put on your purple aspec glasses - and rethink everything you thought you knew about society, friendship, sex, romance and more. Drawing on their personal stories, and those of aspec friends all over the world, prepare to explore your microlabels, in... + Read More
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Series: Am I Trans Enough? How to Stop Doubting and Start Living Paperback Alo Johnston 9781839975349 $26.95 SELF-HELP Feb 21, 2023

Am I Trans Enough? The answer is undoubtably yes. You are.Alo Johnston has been where you are. From watching every transition story on YouTube and navigating online message boards for answers to finally starting testosterone and transitioning himself, he now walks alongside you every step of the way to guide you towards acceptance of who you truly are.Born out of thousands of hours of research and conversations with hundreds of trans people, Am I Trans Enough? digs deep into internalized transphobia and the historical narratives that fuel it. I... + Read More
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Series: My Child Told Me They're Trans...What Do I Do? A Q&A Guide for Parents of Trans Children Paperback Brynn Tannehill 9781839972775 $24.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Feb 21, 2023

'My child just came out to me as trans: What should I do?'If you are a parent looking for an answer to this question, you have come to the right place. Gathering together practical advice and personal experiences from a range of parents, activists and experts, this FAQ book provides answers to the most common questions you will have as a parent of a transgender child.What if they change their minds?How do I make sure my child is safe at school?How do we tell our other children?Sharing their experiences of how they navigated their child's transi... + Read More
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Series: I Am Ace Advice on Living Your Best Asexual Life Paperback Cody Daigle-Orians 9781839972621 $25.95 SELF-HELP Feb 21, 2023

How do I know if I'm actually sexual?How do I come out as asexual?What kinds of relationship can I have as an ace person?If you are looking for answers to these questions, Cody is here to help. Within these pages lie all the advice you need as a questioning ace teen. Tackling everything from what asexuality is, the asexual spectrum and tips on coming out, to intimacy, relationships, acephobia and finding joy, this guide will help you better understand your asexual identity alongside deeply relatable anecdotes drawn from Cody's personal experien... + Read More
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Series: Bisexual Men Exist A Handbook for Bisexual, Pansexual and M-Spec Men Paperback Vaneet Mehta 9781787757196 $26.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 19, 2023

"You're just being greedy.""Are you sure you're not gay?""Pick a side." Being a bisexual man isn't easy - something Vaneet Mehta knows all too well. After spending more than a decade figuring out his identity, Vaneet's coming out was met with questioning, ridicule and erasure. This experience inspired Vaneet to create the viral #BisexualMenExist campaign, combatting the hate and scepticism m-spec (multi-gender attracted spectrum) men encounter, and helping others who felt similarly alone and trapped. This powerful book is an extension of that f... + Read More
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Series: All the Things They Said We Couldn't Have Stories of Trans Joy Paperback Tash Oakes-Monger 9781839971495 $25.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Jan 19, 2023

'Transition has not been something linear for me, my joy has come in seasons.'Now, more than ever, trans people deserve to hear stories of joy and hope, where being trans doesn't have to be defined by fear and dysphoria, but can be experienced through courage, freedom, and the love and acceptance of their chosen families.Through a series of uplifting, generous and beautifully crafted vignettes, T. C. Oakes-Monger gently leads you through the cycle of the seasons - beginning in Autumn and the shedding of leaves and identity, moving through the d... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Orlando Paperback Russell Sheaffer 9780228014607 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 11, 2022

A film that transcends time, Sally Potter’s Orlando follows its titular character through nearly four hundred years of British history. Orlando starts life as a young man in the 1600s and then, mid-film, becomes a woman in the 1800s. Plot, production, and performance have all contributed to the film becoming a touchstone for Tilda Swinton’s ethereal and gender-bending mode.A Russian-French-Dutch-American-Italian-British co-production, Orlando was hailed as a monumental work of international art house cinema upon its release in 1992. Some unders... + Read More
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Series: Even Though I Knew the End Hardcover C. L. Polk 9781250849458 $26.99 FICTION Nov 08, 2022

C. L. Polk turns their considerable powers to a fantastical noir with Even Though I Knew the End.“Stylish supernatural noir with a heart and a thrumming pulse. I devoured it.”—Laini TaylorA magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above.An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she tu... + Read More
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Series: Queer Film Classics Appropriate Behavior Paperback Maria San Filippo 9780228014584 $19.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Nov 04, 2022

Premiering at Sundance in 2014, Desiree Akhavan’s acclaimed debut feature, Appropriate Behavior, introduced the indie film world to the deadpan, irreverent wit that had already won over fans of her trailblazing LGBTQ web series The Slope. The first volume in the Queer Film Classics series to spotlight a work by and about a bisexual woman of colour, this book explores Appropriate Behavior as an instant classic of US indie filmmaking in the 2010s, as a radical reappropriation of straight and gay film genres, as an artist’s coming-of-age story, an... + Read More
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Series: Heaven Paperback Emerson Whitney 9781952119545 $30.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Nov 01, 2022

A finalist for the Believer Book AwardEmerson Whitney writes, "Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess." What follows is that mess-electrifying, gorgeous, defiant. At Heaven's center, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant, psychedelic prose-all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and C. Riley Snorton-to engage transness and the breathing, ... + Read More
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Series: The Gender Friend A 102 Guide to Gender Identity Paperback Oakley "Oak" Phoenix 9781839973574 $21.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Oct 21, 2022

More than a simple 101 introduction to gender, this definitive guide covers everything you need to know to be the best gender ally you can be - from affirming language, how to explore gender, supporting loved ones and advice on what not to say - with self-reflective exercise, personal anecdotes and example scenarios throughout.
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Series: To Be A Trans Man Our Stories of Transition, Acceptance and Joy Paperback Ezra Woodger 9781787759602 $26.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Oct 21, 2022

Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely different. It's difficult to feel as if you fail at being a man when you know there isn't a singular 'right' way to be one.In this illuminating and radically honest book, Ezra Woodger interviews trans men and transmasculine people to interrogate what masculinity is and what it means to be a man. Covering a wide range of topics, from dealing with judgement and expectations - both external and internal - to the experience of gender euphoria, finding ... + Read More
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Series: Lavender House A Novel Hardcover Lev AC Rosen 9781250834225 $35.99 FICTION Oct 18, 2022

A delicious story from a new voice in suspense, Lev AC Rosen's Lavender House is Knives Out with a queer historical twist.Lavender House, 1952: the family seat of recently deceased matriarch Irene Lamontaine, head of the famous Lamontaine soap empire. Irene’s recipes for her signature scents are a well guarded secret—but it's not the only one behind these gates. This estate offers a unique freedom, where none of the residents or staff hide who they are. But to keep their secret, they've needed to keep others out. And now they're worried they're... + Read More
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Series: The Future Is Disabled Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs Paperback Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 9781551528915 $22.95 SOCIAL SCIENCE Oct 04, 2022

In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and pandemics and to bring about liberation? Building on the work of their game-changing book Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Piepzna-Samarasinha writes about disability justice at the end of the wor... + Read More
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Series: Magodiz Paperback Gabe Calderon 9781551528991 $22.95 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

Magodiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country. Everything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers, controlled by the Madjideye, a faceless, formless spiritual entity that has infiltrated the world to subjugate the human pop... + Read More
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Series: Queer Little Nightmares An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry Paperback David Ly 9781551529011 $21.95 FICTION Oct 04, 2022

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, these characters have long conjured fascination and self-identification in the LGBTQ+ community, and over time, monsters have become queer icons. In Qu... + Read More
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Series: Kisses Deep Paperback Michel Marc Bouchard 9781772014457 $16.95 DRAMA Oct 03, 2022

Consumed by fantasies of opulent fabrics and women’s high fashion, a young man desperately tries to restore his mother’s tarnished reputation. Channeling Yves Saint Laurent, his idol and muse, Hugo sets out to right the widespread rumours about his mother, Béatrice, by designing the perfect outfit for her court appearance. Through the story of Hugo and his mother, Michel Marc Bouchard explores the root of artistic creation and explores whether art can be a source of consolation.
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Series: Transverse Disciplines Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University Hardcover Simone Pfleger 9781487508456 $80.00 EDUCATION Sep 30, 2022

Acting as a lightning rod for transformative thinking, Transverse Disciplines offers exciting new methodologies for reshaping academic work beyond the bounds of traditional disciplines.For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world. As programs close or are merged into large multi-language departments, disciplines like German studies find themselves struggling to survive. Transverse Disciplines offers an overview of the current research on the humanities and the academy at ... + Read More
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Series: Devotion Today's Future Becomes Tomorrow's Archive Hardcover Jarrett Earnest 9780921344575 $50.00 ART Sep 27, 2022

Devotion: Today’s Future Becomes Tomorrow’s Archive, edited by Jarrett Earnest, contains essays and interviews, reproductions of notes, diagrams, works of art, and rare ephemera representing an archive of overlooked and excluded material. Queer people have had to create and maintain archives as alternate repositories due to systematic exclusion from traditional archival practices and institutions. Propelled by the editor’s meticulous collecting and explorations of experimental living practices and embodied materiality, this book is a beautiful... + Read More
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Series: Emily & Elspeth Paperback Catherine McNeil 9781773860992 $20.00 POETRY Feb 01, 2023

emily & elspeth follows two women and their unique paths to love… and each other.Catherine McNeil’s latest collection is a delightful romp through South America, the imagined inner-workings of Frida Kahlo’s relationship(s), and Vancouver bedrooms. Through poems that flirt with the intersections of desire, art, and commitment, she pieces together Emily and Elspeth’s relationship as playfully as she takes it apart. Along the way, emily & elspeth brings you to places both intimate and unexpected: a belly where a uterus used to be; a girl mata... + Read More
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Series: Gay Man Talking All the Conversations We Never Had Paperback Daniel Harding 9781839970948 $25.95 FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS Sep 21, 2022

Combining anecdotes, interviews and practical advice, this wise, witty and poignant book unpacks modern gay relationships, from parents, siblings and friends, to lovers, enemies and ourselves, to unpick stereotypes and explore how these relationships define gay men.
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Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography Political Animal The Life and Times of Stewart Butler Hardcover Frank Perez 9781496841292 $30.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Sep 15, 2022

During Mardi Gras 1973, Stewart Butler fell in love with Alfred Doolittle—a wealthy socialite and schizophrenic from San Francisco. Their relationship was an improbable love story that changed the course of LGBTQ+ history. With Doolittle’s money, Butler was able to retire and devote his life to political activism in the cause of queer liberation. A survivor of the horrific Up Stairs Lounge arson, Butler was a founding member of the first statewide lesbian and gay rights organization in Louisiana and an early champion for transgender rights, pla... + Read More
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Series: Pink Triangle Legacies Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust Hardcover W. Jake Newsome 9781501765155 $47.95 HISTORY Age (years) from 18 Sep 15, 2022

Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis' targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer survivors' fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ+ victims. Within this context, a new generation of queer activists has used the pink triangle?a reminder of Germany's fa... + Read More
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Series: Gender Pioneers A Celebration of Transgender, Non-Binary and Intersex Icons Hardcover Philippa Punchard 9781787755154 $26.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Aug 26, 2022

'A vital book' JUNO ROCHE'Beautifully illustrated and fascinating' MEG-JOHN BARKER'Fun and fact-filled' SUSAN STRYKERThis inspiring collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential transgender, non-binary and intersex figures throughout history.Showcasing the diversity of gender identities and expressions that have existed in all cultures alongside developments from recent years, the extraordinary stories in this book highlight the achievements and legacies of those who have fought to be themselves, whatever their gender.... + Read More
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