Locke, Katherine
Summary: "Explore the history to trans and nonbinary people throughout history and the world in this gorgeously illustrated nonfiction book for young teens. Readers will be educated and enlightened about trans and nonbinary people who have made a difference in our world and who continue to help raise awareness of diversity and inclusion in current society. Introductory materials give readers an insight...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Teens 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 LOCSummary: "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 GENCoyote, Ivan E. (Ivan Elizabeth)
Summary: "Ivan Coyote is one of North America's preeminent storytellers and performers, and the author, co-author, or co-editor of eleven previous books, all but one of which have been published by Arsenal Pulp Press. Their most recent book, Tomboy Survival Guide, was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, named an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COYOTE, IVAN COYMalcolm Belc, Krys
Summary: "Essentially this book is a heavily visual memoir-in-essays that explores how the experience of gestational parenthood-conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding my son Samson-eventually clarified my gender identity and allowed me to project a different more masculine self. Ruminating on how the experiences contained under the umbrella of "motherhood" don't fully describe my experience amplifies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MALCOM BELC, KRYS MALRowe, Kaz
Summary: "This graphic biography chronicles the life of Surrealist artist Claude Cahun, from their childhood and experiences of antisemitism in France, through the development of their artistic practice in Paris, to their resistance against the Nazis in Jersey, and includes photographs by Cahun and artistic and romantic partner Marcel Moore"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Getty Publications 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 CAHKobabe, 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 KOBBurgess, 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 BURAnderson, 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 ANDBennett, 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 BENBrodell, Ria
Summary: Katherina Hetzeldorfer, tried "for a crime that didn't have a name" (same sex sexual relations) and sentenced to death by drowning in 1477; Charles aka Mary Hamilton, publicly whipped for impersonating a man in eighteenth-century England; Clara, aka "Big Ben," over whom two jealous women fought in 1926 New York: these are just three of the lives that the artist Ria Brodell has reclaimed for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 759.13 BROSummary: 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 NONNehanda, Walela
Summary: "When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2024