
We are highlighting 51 books written in the last decade. The authors speak to our past, present, and future. The books cover many academic fields and genres, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, anthologies and memoirs. We also suggest checking out our recent list of 10 Pride Essentials!
- Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory, by Qwo-Li Driskill
- Being and Becoming Professionally Other: Identities, Voices, and Experiences of U.S. Trans* Academics, by Erich Pitcher
- Beside You in Time: Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century, by Elizabeth Freeman
- Black Girl Dangerous: On Race, Queerness, Class and Gender, by Mia McKenzie
- Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, by C. Riley Snorton
- Bodymap, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Brilliant Imperfection, by Eli Clare
- Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, by Eric A. Stanley
- Clap When You Land, by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, by Joanne Barker
- Crossfire: A Litany for Survival, by Staceyann Chin
- Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home, by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, by Julia Serano
- Feminist, Queer, Crip, by Alison Kafer
- Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe
- Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture, by Lee Airton
- How We Fight For Our Lives, by Saeed Jones
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Hull, by Xandria Phillips
- Imagining LatinX Intimacies: Connecting Queer Stories, Spaces and Sexualities, by Edward A. Chamberlain
- Juliet Takes a Breath, by Gabby Rivera
- Lana and Lilly Wachowski, by Cael Keegan
- Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature, by Trevor Boffone & Cristina Herrera
- No Ashes in the Fire, by Darnell L. Moore
- No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies, by E. Patrick Johnson
- Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law, by Dean Spade
- Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, by Adrienne Maree Brown
- Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, by Joey L. Mogul
- Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities, by Karma Chavez
- Queer Necropolitics, by Jin Haritaworn
- Queer: A Graphic History, by Meg-John Barker
- Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement, by Jennifer Patterson
- Radically Listening to Transgender Children: Creating Epistemic Justice Through Critical Reflection and Resistant Imaginations, by Katie Steele
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More, by Janet Mock
- Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization, by Scott L. Morgensen
- The Lonely Letters, by Ashon T. Crawley
- The Queerness of Native American Literature, by Lisa Tatonetti
- The Stonewall Reader, by New York Public Library
- The Transgender Studies Reader 2, by Susan Stryker
- The Transgender Teen: A Handbook for Parents and Professionals Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Teens, by Stephanie A. Brill
- Trans Exploits: Trans of Color Cultures and Technologies in Movement, by Jian Neo Chen
- Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century, by Tey Meadow
- Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices, by Freiya Benson
- Trans People in Higher Education, by Genny Beemyn
- Trans Youth in Education, by Jen Gilbert
- Transgender Health: A Practitioner’s Guide to Binary and Non-Binary Trans Patient Care, by Benjamin Vincent
- Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility, edited by Reina Gossett, Eric A. Stanley, and Johanna Burton.
- Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements, by Charlene Carruthers
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals, by Saidiya Hartman
- Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, by Lexie Bean
- You Should See Me in a Crown, by Leah Johnson