The Riot Grrrl Collection
10 best books like The Riot Grrrl Collection (Lisa Darms): Bunny, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Little Fish, The Encyclopedia of Early Earth, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue, Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag, Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Shibboleth: My Revolting Life
| Author | Mona Awad |
| ISBN | 0525559736 |
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort--a clique...
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
| Author | Ronan Farrow |
| ISBN | 0316486639 |
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hellbent on covering up the truth, at any cost.
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to...
| Author | Casey Plett |
| ISBN | 1551527200 |
WINNER, Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for Fiction; $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award
In this extraordinary debut novel by the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning story collection A Safe Girl to Love, Wendy Reimer is a thirty-year-old trans woman who comes across...
The Encyclopedia of Early Earth
| Author | Isabel Greenberg |
| ISBN | 0385678150 |
Before our history began, another now forgotten civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of illustrated and linked tales, Isabel Greenberg chronicles the explorations of a young man as he paddles...
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of Scientology and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She is Today
| Author | Kate Bornstein |
| ISBN | 0807001651 |
A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw.
Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance...
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...
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag
| Author | A.K. Summers |
| ISBN | 1593765401 |
First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch lesbian Teek Thomasson, it is exceptionally challenging: Teek identifies as a masculine woman in a world bent on associating pregnancy with a cult of uber-femininity. Teek wonders, “Can butches...
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History
| Author | Tori Telfer |
| ISBN | 0062433733 |
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are likely Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, and Kate Bender? The narrative we're comfortable with is one where women are the victims of violent crime-not the perpetrators....
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
| Author | Carrie Brownstein |
| ISBN | 1594486638 |
From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll.
Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the...
Shibboleth: My Revolting Life
| Author | Penny Rimbaud |
| ISBN | 1873176406 |
The extraordinary autobiography of Jeremy John Ratter, a.k.a. Penny Rimbaud, founder, lyricist, and drummer of Crass, a band unique in the history of rock 'n' roll. Crass took the idealism of punk seriously. When Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten screamed "No Future" the challenge was taken. In the space of...
