Category: Autobiography/Biography

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Army of Lovers by Sarah Liss

Sarah Liss | Army of Lovers | Will was pretty much the perfect role model.’ – Beth Ditto, The Gossip In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroe

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Colette’s France by Jane Gilmour

Jane Gilmour | Colette’s France | French author Colette has a special place in French literary history, her life and writing novels Cheri, Gigli and the Claudine series spanned the ren

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Secrets of the Flesh by Judith Thurman

Judith Thurman | Secrets of the Flesh | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was this century’s first modern woman. She arrived in Paris around 1900 as the provincial child bride of a notorious rake an

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Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee

Mackenzi Lee | Bygone Badass Broads | Based on Mackenzi Lee’s popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women f

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Rainbow Revolutionaries by Sarah Prager

Sarah Prager | Rainbow Revolutionaries | One of Time Out’s “LGBTQ+ books for kids to read during Pride Month,” this groundbreaking, pop-culture-infused illustrated biography collection takes

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Women Remembered by Charlotte Bunch; Nancy Myron

Charlotte Bunch; Nancy Myron | Women Remembered | A collection of short biographies of women originally printed in The Furies. Ranging from the Trojan Women to Gertrude Stein, each article discusses t

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Women Filmmakers of the African And Asian Diaspora by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster | Women Filmmakers of the African And Asian Diaspora | Black women filmmakers not only deserve an audience, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts, but it is also imperative that their voices be heard as they str

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Intimate Politics by Bettina F. Aptheker

Bettina F. Aptheker | Intimate Politics | At eight years old, Bettina Aptheker watched her family’s politics play out in countless living rooms across the country when her father, historian an

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Margaret Mead And Ruth Benedict by Hilary Lapsley

Hilary Lapsley | Margaret Mead And Ruth Benedict | Winner of the Judy Grahn Award for Best Book of the Year in Lesbian Nonfiction, this is a revealing study of the relationship between two major figure

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Her Neighbor’s Wife by Lauren Jae Gutterman

Lauren Jae Gutterman | Her Neighbor’s Wife | At first glance, Barbara Kalish fit the stereotype of a 1950s wife and mother. Married at eighteen, Barbara lived with her husband and two daughters i