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• One of Them

  Lal, Shaneel

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  A courageous memoir from Young New Zealander of the year 2023 and Global Youth Leader, Shaneel Lal. Lal, a 23-year-old student, founded the Conversion Therapy Action Group. This group successfully advocated for the criminalization of conversion…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 30 Queer Lives

  Conversations With LGBTQIA+ New Zealanders

  McEvoy, Matt, 1978-

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  Thirty interesting, honest and remarkable stories from thirty New Zealanders with diverse backgrounds, gender and sexuality. These short essays are a good introduction to reading about queer lives.

• Sex Object

  a Memoir

  Valenti, Jessica, 1978-

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  This very personal and rightfully angry memoir by Guardian writer and feminist, Jessica Valenti, has the writer recalling painful, embarrassing and sometimes just plain illegal incidents of sexual harassment from her early life until the present.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Round-heeled Woman

  My Late-life Adventures in Sex and Romance

  Juska, Jane, 1933-2017

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  Nearing the age of 67 author Jane Juska decided to place an ad in the ‘The New York Review of Books’ stating: “Before I turn 67, next March, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me”.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Modern HERstory

  Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History

  Imani, Blair

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  A timely collection of inspiring stories written by social activist, Blair Imani, about women and non-binary people off all ages who have all, in some way, contributed to radical social change over the years, from the civil rights movement right up…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pageboy

  a Memoir

  Page, Elliot, 1987-

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  The award-winning Canadian "Juno" actor, Elliot Page, first came out as gay and later trans. This is the intimate, honest story of his journey through Hollywood.

• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

  Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-

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  The compelling story of the English author’s troubled childhood, the repercussions of which she felt throughout her life, and the strength and solace she found through reading and writing. Winterson’s adoptive mother was a religious zealot and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fun Home

  a Family Tragicomic

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  Fun home is the darkly funny graphic memoir by the cult-favourite comic artist Alison Bechdel. Laboriously illustrated over a seven year period the memoir details her childhood, in particular her fraught relationship with her distant father and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Have Loved Me a Man

  the Life & Times of Mika

  Mazer, Sharon

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  From being one of the few Māori boys in Timaru Boys' High School, to becoming an iconic gay performance artist, this biography, lavishly illustrated with photos from throughout Mika’s unique career, sheds light on the social changes that swept New…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sissy

  a Coming-of-gender Story

  Tobia, Jacob, 1991-

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  Fearless, insightful and sharply funny, Tobia’s memoir thoughtfully examines a childhood assigned a gender which didn’t fit, and their journey to coming out and embracing being genderqueer. While telling their own story Tobia also examines the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• In the Dream House

  Machado, Carmen Maria

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  Machado made a name for herself in 2017 with her acclaimed collection of psychological horror stories “Her Body and Other Parties,” and in her newest book turns her distinctive voice to telling her own horror story, one of domestic abuse at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Over the Top

  My Story

  Van Ness, Jonathan, 1987-

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  Jonathon Van Ness has won fans the world over with his effervescent personality on TV’s Queer Eye, and delighted Christchurch audiences on his promotional tour for his memoir. Despite his indomitable positivity his life has been full of struggles,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• There Will Be No Miracles Here

  Gerald, Casey, 1987-

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  Casey Gerald was raised in a difficult family situation and has nonetheless forged a successful business career, but his is far from a typical rags-to riches story. From a religious childhood awaiting the rapture, a mother who disappeared and a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boy Erased

  a Memoir

  Conley, Garrard

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  At the age of 19 Garrard Conley, the son of a pastor in a fundmentalist Christian community, was outed to his family and forced to make a heart wrenching choice - lose his family and his life as he knew it, or undergo ‘conversion therapy’, intended…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Untamed

  Doyle, Glennon, 1976-

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  A single moment can change your whole life, and for author and activist Glennon Doyle that moment came when she fell instantly and unexpectedly in love with a woman attending one of her book events. Already a devoted wife and mother, Doyle was…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take It as a Compliment

  Stoian, Maria

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  This one breaks the mold a bit as rather than being just one person’s story this is a collective memoir, bringing together anonymous stories from men and women around the world and their tails of sexual harassment, all told through Maria Stoian’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation