Category: Memoir

Posted in Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest Memoir

A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez

Daisy Hernandez | A Cup of Water Under My Bed | A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life

In this lyrical, coming-of-age memo

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Graphic Novel Memoir

Calling Dr. Laura: a Graphic Memoir by Nicole J. Georges

Nicole J. Georges | Calling Dr. Laura: a Graphic Memoir | Nationally, Portland, Oregon is known for being a rainy green city of bicyclists, 20-something hipsters, and enough log-jammed trends from the ninetie

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

Memoirs of an Old Dyke by Jinx Beers

Jinx Beers | Memoirs of an Old Dyke | Born in a dysfunctional lower middle class family in the middle of the ‘big’ depression, no one could have predicted that Jinx Beers would be a pionee

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

Gypsy, A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee

Gypsy Rose Lee | Gypsy, A Memoir | Gypsy: A Memoir is a 1957 autobiography of renowned striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, which inspired the Broadway musical Gypsy: A Musical Fable and t

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir by Annie Rachel Lanzillotto

Annie Rachel Lanzillotto | L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir | If you’re looking for a singular category for Annie Rachele Lanzillotto’s memoir L Is For Lion, you’ll be hard-pressed to choose just one. This sprawl

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Memoir

Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves by David A.J. Richards

David A.J. Richards | Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves | Boys’ Secrets and Men’s Loves is the memoir of a law professor who has written over twenty books on the basic rights of American constitutionalism. He

Posted in Memoir

My Butch Career by Esther Newton

Esther Newton | My Butch Career | In My Butch Career Esther Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while co

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Memoir

Exile in the Promised Land: a Memoir by Marcia Freedman

Marcia Freedman | Exile in the Promised Land: a Memoir | Lively first-person account of fourteen years in Israel by former Knesset member, feminist movement founder, early peace activist.

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest Memoir

Hunger by Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o

Posted in Fiction Memoir Non-Fiction Poetry

Queer Beats by Regina Marler

Regina Marler | Queer Beats | The writings that shocked America out of the 1950s. Blasting through the crew-cuts and conformism of their day, the Beat writers were queer in the ful