Category: Memoir

My Red Blood | Alix Dobkin | Women’s music legend Alix Dobkin for the first time chronicles her rise to fame as the first artist to record an openly lesbian album in 1973. Her sto

The Audacity Of A Kiss | Leslie Cohen | ‘The Audacity of a Kiss tells the story of Leslie Cohen, from her youth in Queens, New York during the ‘Mad Men’ era of the 1950s, to her young adulth

My Life As A Boy | Kim Chernin | ”If a woman in her thirties turns into a boy, that may mean she’s having trouble getting out of the place she’s in. She requires the instinctive, who

Red Rock Baby Candy | Shira Spector | Shira Spector, whose drawing is visceral, symbolic and naturalistic, literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, enco

Jen Winston | Greedy: Notes From a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much | A hilarious and whip-smart collection of essays, offering an intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex. Perfect for fans of Lindy West

Randa Jarrar | Love Is An Ex-Country | Queer. Muslim. Arab American. A proudly Fat woman. Randa Jarrar is all of these things. In this ‘viscerally elegant’ and ‘intimately edgy’ memoir of a

Gabrielle Korn | Everybody (Else) Is Perfect | In her work as the former editor-in-chief of Nylon, Korn placed the worlds of beauty and fashion within the cultural context of internet feminism and

Eileen Myles | For Now | Blending humour and meditation, the wide – ranging essay by award-winning poet Eileen Myles is a candid record of the political, social and aesthetic

Kelsey Darragh | Don’t F*cking Panic | If you are one of the millions of people struggling to manage your mental health right now, stop whatever you are doing and read this interactive work

John Browne | The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business | Part memoir and part social criticism, The Glass Closet addresses the issue of homophobia that still pervades corporations around the world and unders