The first biography of thriller writer Patricia Highsmith draws on her private diaries, notebooks, and letters to reveal her secret life as a lesbian, her many relationships with women, and the connections between her sexuality and her groundbreaking psychological suspense novels.
A dark f/f Beauty and the Beast retelling set in a post-apocalyptic Vietnamese-inspired world where failed scholar Yên becomes tutor to dragon Vu Côn’s children and finds herself dangerously attracted to her stern captor.
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-year-old Nessie.
Coping with the death of her cousin, she abandons her life in the city to live in his now-empty house in a small town.
Matt Brim challenges the ‘overrepresentation of affluence’ within queer studies,
This book examines how Black queer women in Chicago navigate gentrification and neoliberalism through social dance and nightlife, arguing that their presence on the dance floor is a political assertion of their right to occupy space in the city.
The Women’s House of Detention | Hugh Ryan | This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in
Queer(ing) Gender in Italian Women’s Writing | Dacia Maraini; Goliarda Sapienza; Elsa Morante | QUEER(ING) GENDER IN ITALIAN WOMEN’S WRITING is the first study of its kind to systematically use queer theory as a theoretical framework of analysis
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments | Saidiya Hartman | ‘Exhilarating…A rich resurrection of a forgotten history.’ ―Parul Sehgal, New York TimesBeautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beau
Queer Timing | Susan Potter | In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema. Pott