Meliza Banales | Life Is Wonderful, People Are Terrific | From the forests, beaches, and Xicano community of Santa Cruz to the smokey punk bars, strip clubs, and Queer-girl culture of San Francisco, these are
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.
Kam; Lucetta Yip | Shanghai Lalas | The lives of lalas and transgender people in China have changed in some dramatic ways in the past two decades, with communities rapidly expanding with
Day Meg | Last Psalm At Sea Level | Lovely does not suffice, nor does lyric. Eloquence is only a grasping in the space of ineffable air. There are few words or phrases that do justice to
Donika Kelly | Bestiary | I thought myself lion and serpent. Thought
myself body enough for two, for we.
Found comfort in never being lonely.
What burst fr
Jeanette Winterson | The Daylight Gate | “The North is the dark place. It is not safe to be buried on the north side of the church and the North Door is the way of the dead. The North of Engl
Ben Murtagh | Genders And Sexualities in Indonesian Cinema | ‘Indonesia has a long and rich tradition of transgender cultures, with many festivals and local rites involving members of transgender communities. Th
Evelyn C. White | Alice Walker | The first full-length biography of the author of The Color Purple–an American icon praised and pilloried for her art and activism. Born to a share
Nene Adams | Flowers of Edo | Kazuko has tattoos on her body and deadly secrets in her heart. Employed as a house guard in a brothel in the infamous Yoshiwara pleasure district of
Qwo-Li Driskill | Asegi Stories | In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translat