A Collection Of Articles On Lesbians And Lesbianism In Thailand by Wirada Somsawat,
Thai lesbian identities and relationships explored through scholarly essays and cultural analysis in Southeast Asian context.
Lesbian Studies
Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy Love, Friendship, And Sex In Queer Mexico City by Anahi Russo Garrido
The first English ethnography of queer women’s intimate lives in Mexico City, tracing three generations across marriage, polyamory, friendship, and shifting legal ground.
Arguing With The Phallus Feminist, Queer And Postcolonial Theory: A Psychoanalytic Contribution by Janet Campbell
Psychoanalysis re-examined as a critical, evolving framework within feminist, queer, and postcolonial cultural theory.
Feminism Meets Queer Theory by Elizabeth Weed; Naomi Schor
Explores productive tensions and overlaps between feminist, queer, and lesbian theory through essays, interviews, and debate.
Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood by Shelley M. Park
Park critiques ‘monomaternalism,’ arguing that diverse family structures create transformative, queer kinships rooted in shared difference.
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman by Sidney Abbott & Barbara Love (All Editions)
Sappho Was a Right-On Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism by Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love is a two-part study of lesbianism written from the inside. The first part examines how lesbians navigate a society that disapproves of their existence — the techniques of passing, the costs of concealment, and the pressures of living at … Read more
Exile And Pride by Eli Clare
A groundbreaking intersectional memoir exploring disability, queerness, class, environmental destruction, and gender identity through the lens of a white disabled genderqueer writer’s personal experiences and political activism.
Black Queer Studies by E. Patrick Johnson; Mae Henderson
A groundbreaking scholarly collection that makes black queer studies visible as a developing field, bringing together established and emerging scholars to assess theoretical and political issues at the intersection of race and sexuality in the United States.
Harley Loco by Rayya Elias
A raw punk rock memoir chronicling Syrian-American Rayya Elias’s journey from her childhood in Aleppo through Detroit to 1980s Lower East Side New York, where she pursued music and hairstyling while exploring her sexuality with lovers of both sexes, battling heroin addiction, experiencing homelessness and incarceration, and ultimately finding redemption and sobriety.
Queer Theory (Readers In Cultural Criticism, 1) by Iain Morland; Annabelle Willox
An anthology of groundbreaking work mapping, contextualizing, and challenging queer theory’s project with fifteen essays by influential scholars, activists, performers, and visual artists essential for anyone interested in sexuality studies or gender activism.