Parks, Casey
Summary: "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 pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, CASEY PARFaliveno, Melissa
Summary: "A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home."--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A/Topple Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FALIVENO, MELISSA FALKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBSummary: "So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. But for many non-cisgender people, it's gender euphoria which pushes forward their transition: the joy the first time a parent calls them by their chosen name, the first time they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unbound 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 GENSummary: What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 NONKuklin, Susan
Summary: Shares insights into the teen transgender experience, tracing six individual's emotional and physical journey as it was shaped by family dynamics, living situations, and the transition each teen made during the personal journey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Pr 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 306.7 KUKBurgess, Rebecca
Summary: "Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual identity and mental health in a world obsessed with sex. From school to work to relationships, this book offers an unparalleled insight into asexuality."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURSalamon, Gayle
Summary: "The Life and Death of Latisha King examines a single incident, the shooting of 15-year-old Latisha King by 14-year-old Brandon McInerney in their junior high school classroom in Oxnard, California in 2008. The press coverage of the shooting, as well as the criminal trial that followed, referred to Latisha, assigned male at birth, as Larry. Unpacking the consequences of representing the victim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 SALShraya, Vivek
Summary: "A powerful meditation on the damaging effects of masculinity from a trans girl--a writer with celebrated indie roots and a knack for dismantling assumptions and challenging the status quo. Toxic masculinity takes many insidious forms, from misogyny and sexual harassment to homophobia, transphobia, and bullying. Vivek Shraya has firsthand experience with nearly all of them. As a boy, Vivek...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHRAYA, VIVEK SHRTortorella, Nico
Summary: Expanding on themes explored on their popular podcast, The Love Bomb, Nico shares the intimate details of their romantic partnerships, the dysfunction of their loud but loving Italian family, and the mingling of their feminine and masculine identities into one multidimensional, sexually fluid, nonbinary individual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 TORSummary: "In Sexual Metamorphosis, Jonathan Ames presents the personal narratives of sixteen gender pioneers. Here is Christine Jorgensen, the first celebrity transsexual, greeting thousands of well-wishers from the stage of Madison Square Garden. Here is Caroline Cossey, former model and Bond (as in James) girl, being outed in the tabloid press. Here is novelist and English professor Jennifer Finney...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.768 SEXWhitney, Emerson.
Summary: In arresting prose, Whitney writes of moving through homes around the country, of transness, and, at the book's root, of their complex and often difficult relationship with their mother: their first window into understanding womanness and all that's bound up in it. Whitney streaks this through with queer and gender theory, standing audaciously in the face of uncertainty, to ask: "if the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McSweeney's 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WHITNEY, EMERSON WHIBennett, Andrea (Andrea Kathleen)
Summary: "A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 BENSom, Bishakh
Summary: "The meticulous artwork of transgender artist Bishakh Som gives us the rare opportunity to see the world through another lens. The exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by inviting the reader to view the author moving through life as she would have us see her, that is, as she sees herself. Framed with a candid autobiographical narrative, this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SOMBillings, Alexandra
Summary: Spanning five decades, from profound lows to exhilarating highs, an award-winning actor, singer, and history-making LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist shares not only her ever-evolving story but also the parallel ways in which queer identity has dramatically changed since the Stonewall riots of 1969.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books/Little A 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BILLINGS, ALEXANDRA BILGoetsch, Diana
Summary: "A memoir of one woman's long journey to late transition, in an era before real community or appropriate language was available to help her understand herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GOETSCH, DIANA GOEWright, iO Tillett
Summary: "The author describes her search for an authentic sense of self and gender identity in a coming of age biography set in the 1980s and 1990s urban bohemia of New York's Lower East Side, where punk rock, poverty and heroin met art and glamour,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WRIGHT, iO TILLETT WRIHolub, Joan
Summary: "Learn all about important leaders who represent, empower, and support the LGBTQIA+ community in this engaging board book perfect for proud leaders-in-training! Now even the youngest readers can learn all about important people who are from or helped support the LGBTQIA+ community! Highlighting ten memorable people who paved the way, parents and little ones alike will love this discovery primer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Simon 2021
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Summary: "As she recovers from a breakup with a lover who had meant everything to her, Trisha Low grapples with the meaning of everything, in memoir rich with theory and digression, but also in stark, gorgeous imagery and memorable, epigrammatic insight. Low, a young queer woman from a Singaporean family, must travel between the American coasts and experience debasement both routine -- in the form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOW, TRISHA LOWAnderson, Dianna E.
Summary: "For decades, our cultural discourse around trans and gender-diverse people has been viewed through a medical lens, through diagnoses and symptoms set down in books by cisgender doctors, or through a political lens, through dangerous caricatures invented by politicians clinging to power. But those who claim non-binary gender identity deserve their own discourse, born out of the work of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadleaf Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.768 ANDRasmussen, Crystal
Summary: "A cocktail-spitting, norm-pinching dive into twenty-first-century queer life, exploring bodies, identity, shame, and the glory of loving yourself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RASMUSSEN, CRYSTAL RASWambach, Abby
Summary: Updated with stories that trace the Olympic gold medalist's journey from youth soccer to the Hall of Fame, an adaptation of the best-selling Wolfpack inspires readers to harness their inner strength, forge their own path, and band together with teammates to make the world a better place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring BrookPress 2020
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Summary: "A memoir exploring what it means to live outside the normative boundaries imposed by society, from an award-winning trans writer and performer. In None of the Above: Reflections on Life beyond the Binary, Travis Alabanza considers seven phrases people have directed at them throughout their life. These phrases-some deceptively innocuous, some deliberately loaded or violent, some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALABANZA, TRAVIS ALABrady-Davis, Precious
Summary: "A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Topple Books, Little A 2021