Category: Memoir

Hijab Butch Blues | Lamya H | A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and rad

Another Appalachia | Neema Avashia | When Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving “There are Indian people in West Virginia?” A queer A

Knocking Myself Up | Michelle Tea | From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-brea

Diary Of A Misfit | Casey Parks | When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her past

Pretty Baby | Chris Belcher | A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that up

The Family Outing | Jessi Hempel | A striking and remarkable literary memoir about one family’s transformation, with almost all of them embracing their queer identities.

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True Chronicles of a Lesbian Love Affair | LaTresa Dewberry; Marcie Frazier | True Chronicles of a Lesbian Love Affair journals the amazingly wonderful beginning of two women taking a chance on love. This book is a no holds barr

The Change | Lori Soderlind | In the throes of a classic midlife crisis, Lori Soderlind takes a sabbatical from her community college job as a journalism professor. She sets out to

Given Up for You | Erin O. White | In this candid and revelatory memoir, Erin O. White shares her hunger for both romantic and divine love, and how these desires transformed her life. I

Plain | Mary Alice Hostetter | Plain tells the story of Mary Alice Hostetter’s journey to define an authentic self amid a rigid religious upbringing in a Mennonite farm family. Alth