Advice and Encouragement for Rainbow Families of All Kinds In You'll Be a Wonderful Parent, Jasper Peach provides a practical and emotional guide for LGBTIQA+ families around the arrival of a new baby. Becoming a parent is already a challenging time, even more so...

Gay Lives from Wilde to AlmodovarIn Love in a Dark Time, Colm Toibin looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born...

A Celebration of Transgender, Non-Binary and Intersex Icons 'A vital book' JUNO ROCHE 'Beautifully illustrated and fascinating' MEG-JOHN BARKER 'Fun and fact-filled' SUSAN STRYKER This inspiring collection of illustrated portraits celebrates the lives of influential transgender, non-binary and intersex figures throughout history. Showcasing the...

I guess we should start at the beginning. I was born on 2 November 1995. The doctors in the hospital took one look at my genitals and slapped an F on my birth certificate. 'F' for female, not fail - though that would actually have...

The Kid's Guide to Gender Identity What do you like? How do you feel? Who are you? This brightly illustrated children's book provides a straightforward introduction to gender for anyone aged 5-8. It presents clear and direct language for understanding and talking about how...

How can we hope to understand social inequality without considering race, class, and gender in tandem? How do they interact with other categories such as sexuality, citizenship, and ableism? How does an inclusive analysis of domination and privilege move us closer to solutions touching...

A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone In Sensuous Knowledge, Minna Salami draws on Africa-centric, feminist-first and artistic traditions to help us rediscover inclusive and invigorating ways of experiencing the world afresh. Combining the playfulness of a storyteller with the insight of a social critic,...

From the tragic massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, to signing the Treaty of Rome when Britain entered the Common Market, Barbara Hosking was there. This is the story of a Cornish scholarship girl with no contacts who ended up in the corridors...

The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex This transformative guide completely breaks down our current understanding of biological sex and gender diversity. Introducing readers to seven variations of human sex, commonly considered intersex, the book challenges the myth that sex and gender are exclusively...

 Your Q&A Guide to Coming Out, Dating, Parenting and Beyond My partner doesn't believe I'm bisexual, what should I do? How should I approach sex with someone of a different gender for the first time? Can I reconcile being bisexual with wanting a biological...

Argues for the queer potential of video gamesWhile popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of...

A Trans History Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from...

Redefining the Discourse of Gender-BendingTheatrical gender-bending, also called drag, is a popular form of entertainment and a subject of scholarly study. However, most drag studies do not question the standard words and ideas used to convey this performance genre. Drawing on a rich body...

Bringing together the stories and experiences of LGBT+ parents as well as professionals in the field, this guide explains what healthcare and birth workers can do to improve care for their clients. It broadens the ability to understand those who birth and parent beyond...

A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies. Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures,...

How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video GamesIn The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video...

For any student or practitioner needing to gain a sound understanding of the complex fields of gender variance, gender identity and gender dysphoria, this book provides the ideal starting point for the knowledge and skills that you need. Emphasising the need for affirmative practice...

Restrictions and Resistance This ground breaking book explores resistance against the harsh policing of sexuality in some Muslim societies. Many Muslim majority countries still use religious discourse to enforce stigmatization and repression of those, especially women, who do not conform to sexual norms promoted...

In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word-in this case, use-and following it around. She shows how use became associated with life and strength in nineteenth-century biological...

A Modern Queer History & Handbook. A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community's development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full-colour illustrations. Compiled and designed by queer power couple and illustrators extraordinaire, Ashley Molesso and Chess Needham, founders...

'A magnificent achievement... I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny, sad, triumphant. . . everything. And both a warning and a hope for the times to come' STEPHEN FRY. Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and...

The Best of Kimchi Cuddles By Tikva Wolf, Sophie Labelle A hilarious and touching comic about polyamory, queer, and genderqueer issues. If your relationships or your gender are unconventional, you'll find useful advice and plenty of laughs in this compilation of the wildly popular...

Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Medal Winner. This is an illustrated children's book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, sexual orientation and family diversity easy to explain to children. Throughout the book kids learn that there are many kinds of people in the...

From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boy's clothing. This confused her family, until they took...

LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it...

A Memoir of Identity, Faith and Family. 'A necessary, beautiful book' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You. `A brilliant memoir' Guardian. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard...

Queer Eye sensation and passionate cook Antoni Porowski inspires both newbies and knowledgeable cooks to get back into the kitchen. Antoni Porowski, the food and wine guru on Netflix hit show Queer Eye, invites you to cook delicious dishes in his gorgeous first cookbook,...

A Practical Resource for K-12 Teachers, Administrators, and School Support Staff. The rates of bullying, truancy due to lack of safety in schools, and subsequent suicidality for LGBT+ youth are exponentially higher than for non-LGBT+ youth. As a result, many American K-12 students are...

Understand Yourself and Make Choices that are Right for You Unravelling the complexities of relationships and sexuality, this straight-talking guide will help you to navigate the associated social, emotional and physical issues. Expert advice and real life examples give you the knowledge to reflect on...

'Simply one of our most exciting writers' - Observer. 'A free-wheeling and joyful exploration of the works and lives of a range of artists and thinkers who brought libidinal and creative energy together with spectacular results' - Jack Halberstam The body is a source...