Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
10 best books like Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (Eli Clare): Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity, The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, The Transgender Studies Reader, PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology, Boys Like Her: Transfictions
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
| Author | Eric A. Stanley |
| ISBN | 1849350701 |
Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics...
Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 1580051847 |
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. Nobody Passes explores and critiques the...
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
| Author | Ching-In Chen |
| ISBN | 0896087948 |
"Was/is your abusive partner a high-profile activist? Does your abusive girlfriend’s best friend staff the domestic violence hotline? Have you successfully kicked an abuser out of your group? Did your anti-police brutality group fear retaliation if you went to the cops about another organizer’s...
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
| Author | S. Bear Bergman |
| ISBN | 1551522640 |
Alternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humor and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces...
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law
| Author | Dean Spade |
| ISBN | 0896087964 |
Wait—what’s wrong with rights?
Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal...
The Transgender Studies Reader
| Author | Susan Stryker |
| ISBN | 0415947081 |
Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is...
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
| Author | Carol Queen |
| ISBN | 1573440744 |
This is probably the best book about gender and sexuality I've ever read. It discusses the many different facets of human sexuality that aren't necessarily mapped out by what you have between your legs or on your chest. In a world of cookie cutter voidoids who identify themselves purely by their sexuality...
Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
| Author | Leslie Feinberg |
| ISBN | 0807079510 |
Those who have heard Leslie Feinberg speak in person know how powerful and inspiring s/he can be. In Trans Liberation, Feinberg has gathered a collection of hir speeches on trans liberation and its essential connection to the liberation of all people. This wonderfully immediate, impassioned, and...
| Author | Incite! Women of Color Against Violence |
What would it take to end violence against women of color? How does the mainstream antiviolence movement help? How does it hinder? When will we admit that repositioning women of color at the center of the movement--women more often harmed by the police, prisons, and border patrols than aided by them--means...
| Author | Taste This |
| ISBN | 0889740860 |
Boys Like Her is a provocative collection of fiction and images from Taste This, a queer performance group including Anna Camilleri, Ivan Coyote, Zoe Eakle and Lyndell Mongomery. Kate Bornstein provides an introduction.
Boys Like Her is a road movie of young queer life. Four distinct voices...
| Author | Colin Kennedy Donovan |
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.
Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
| Author | Amy Sonnie |
| ISBN | 1555835589 |
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0814757138 |
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
| Author | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
| ISBN | 0231105177 |
As the first major critical study to examine literary and cultural representations of physical disability, Extraordinary Bodies situates disability as a social construction, shifting it from a property of bodies to a product of cultural rules about what bodies should be or do. Rosemarie Garland...
The Disability Studies Reader
| Author | Lennard J. Davis |
| ISBN | 0415953340 |
The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist...
| Author | Martin F. Manalansan IV |
| ISBN | 0822332175 |
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay...
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
| Author | José Esteban Muñoz |
| ISBN | 0816630151 |
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
| Author | James I. Charlton |
| ISBN | 0520224817 |
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities....
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
| Author | David Valentine |
| ISBN | 0822338696 |
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health,...
| Author | Alison Kafer |
| ISBN | 0253009227 |
In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined...
Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender
| Author | Riki Anne Wilchins |
| ISBN | 1563410907 |
Riki Anne Wilchins has written the book that may take the discussion of gender over the top. Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the tend of Gender, a frontal assault on both the status quo in academic studies and the full spectrum of single-issue identity politics, will change the way you think about...
