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• Hijab Butch Blues

  a Memoir

  H, Lamya

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  A daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir, Hijab Butch Blues traces a queer Muslim immigrant’s journey across the Middle East and United States as she navigates faith, identity, and belonging. Drawing from Lamya H.’s coming‑of‑age…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Einstein of Sex

  Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

  Brook, Daniel

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  The vivid biography of German‑Jewish physician Magnus Hirschfeld, the pioneering sexologist who argued more than a century ago that gender and sexuality exist on a fluid spectrum, challenging the rigid norms of his era and defying the rising threat…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep House

  the Gayest Love Story Ever Told

  Lin, Jeremy Atherton

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  An intimate memoir that traces a transatlantic relationship as it is repeatedly tested by restrictive immigration laws - revealing the fear, uncertainty, and quiet acts of subterfuge required of binational same‑sex couples during the United States'…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kissing Girls on Shabbat

  a Memoir

  Glass, Sara, Dr

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  Rooted in the tensions of an ultra‑strict Hasidic upbringing, Kissing Girls on Shabbat follows Sara Glass's fight to reclaim her queer identity while navigating the emotional and spiritual costs of breaking away from everything she was taught to be.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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