Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine
10 best books like Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine (Colin Kennedy Donovan): Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation, The Transgender Studies Reader, Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity, Boys Like Her: Transfictions, Not Vanishing, Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, Walking with Ghosts: Poems, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
| Author | Eli Clare |
| ISBN | 0896086054 |
“Eli Clare works a vital alchemy. . . . Using the language of the elemental world, he delineates a complex human intersection and transmutes cruelty into its opposite—a potent, lifegiving remedy.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
First published in 1999, Exile & Pride established...
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...
Body Alchemy: Transsexual Portraits
| Author | Loren Cameron |
| ISBN | 1573440620 |
The idea of gender is no long as fixed as it once was: Tootsie, La Cage aux Folles, and Milton Berle saw to that. But none of this has prepared us for Loren Cameron's amazing portraits of transsexuals. Beautifully reproduced and complemented with notes and short essays, these portraits of women who are...
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 | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896085813 |
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
| 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 | Chrystos |
| ISBN | 0889740151 |
essentially the english language fails me sometimes when i want to capture the depth of importance of experience, and i can't find words for what i want to say here about gratitude and reverence. this collection is full of love and strength and rage that all are incredibly deep and powerful. her form is...
| 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 | Qwo-Li Driskill |
| ISBN | 1844711137 |
This is a book of strong poems, it brings the reader through many emotions: anger, love, fear, sadness. He uses his words to educate, mourn, heal and take back power. He gives us his native language and traditions.
My favorite poem is his long one written after Reagan's death, "Eulogy for the...
| 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...
| Author | Viviane Namaste |
| ISBN | 0226568105 |
Invisible Lives is the first scholarly study of transgendered people—cross-dressers, drag queens and transsexuals—and their everyday lives.
Through combined theoretical and empirical study, Viviane K. Namaste argues that transgendered people are not so much produced by medicine...
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...
| Author | Justin Vivian Bond |
| ISBN | 1558617477 |
"Like Bond, the memoir is droll, pensive and filled with zingers teetering between funny and ferocious."—The New York Times
Hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V’s] generation” in the New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this candid and...
| Author | Lennard J. Davis |
| ISBN | 1859840078 |
In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against 'ableist' discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster...
| Author | Chloë Brushwood Rose |
| ISBN | 1551521261 |
Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity is a manifesto for the unrepentant bitch, straddling the furious and fantastic. Undeniably celebratory and deeply troubling, this sharp-edged collection (of fiction, prose poetry, personal essay, photographs, and illustration) figures the un-hyphenated...
| Author | Paisley Currah |
| ISBN | 0816643121 |
"Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library Journal
Over the past three...
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....
| Author | Daniel Heath Justice |
| ISBN | 0973139668 |
The Everland, home of the Eld-Folk since time immemorial, a deep green world of ancient mystery and sacred shadow. A thousand years have passed since the world of Men and the world of the Folk collided in catastrophe. The wyr-powers of the Kyn and the other Folk have preserved their verdant homeland from...
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
| Author | J. Jack Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0814735851 |
In his first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, J. Jack Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. He presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipallaws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these "ugly laws" have become a sort of shorthand for oppression...
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability
| Author | Susan Wendell |
| ISBN | 0415910471 |
The Rejected Body
argues that feminist theorizing has been skewed toward non-disabled experience, and that the knowledge of people with disabilities must be integrated into feminist ethics, discussions of bodily life, and criticism of the cognitive and social authority of medicine. Among the...
