Socialism and the Fight for Trans Liberation Trans rights and trans lives have come under increasingly vicious ideological attack in recent times, from the "bathroom wars" and Donald Trump's anti-trans edicts in the United States, to attacks on proposed changes to the Gender Recognition...

The Hidden History of Gay Washington Washington, D.C., has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick’s Secret City.For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay...

From Foundations to Futures This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally. The authors engage with a wide range of developments in...

Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories Get an inside perspective on life as a disabled gay man! Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories reverberates with the sound of cripgay voices rising to be heard above the din of indifference and bias, oppression...

Queering Femininity focuses on femininity as a style of gender presentation and asks how (and whether) it can be refigured as a creative and queer style of the body. Drawing on a range of feminist texts and interviews with self-identifying queer femmes from the...

The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be Making a baby through love and science? Get the guidance you need to navigate the conception process with confidence and ease. "[A] a well-researched, deeply comprehensive (and readable!) guide to building a queer family in...

'This is a story that should never have been told' KATE MOSS 'If you want to change your life but can't.. I strongly advise you read this book' TRACEY EMIN As one of club culture's most notorious - and best loved - figures, Tony...

Genteel society ladies who compare notes on their husbands' suicides. A hilariously foul-mouthed black drag queen. A voodoo priestess who works her roots in the graveyard at midnight. A morose inventor who owns a bottle of poison powerful enough to kill everyone in town....

A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood Krys Malcolm Belc's visual memoir-in-essays explores how the experience of gestational parenthood, conceiving, birthing, and breastfeeding his son Samson, eventually clarified his gender identity. Krys Malcolm Belc has thought a lot about the interplay between parenthood and gender. As...

From contributors to The Conversation, a look at gender diversity in the twenty-first century and the intricate and intersecting challenges faced by trans and nonbinary people. With media amplifying the voices of anti-trans legislators and critics, it is important to turn to the stories,...

A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Liberation era which resonates just as powerfully today. Long hard to find, it...

The Woman I Am traces Samantha's story from her birth, childhood, teenage years and the first two and half decades of her life as Richard. We learn the pain of realising she was a woman trapped in male body. The total freedom she felt...

PRE-ORDER NOW - 22 May 2025A gorgeously illustrated, accessible celebration of queer activism, by the creator of the award-winning Suffragette, David Roberts. Touching on major moments in the story of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights including the Stonewall Uprising, the first Gay Pride Rally...

A Self-Esteem and Confidence Workbook for Trans People Identifying as a trans and/or non-binary person in today's society can be a daily challenge. However, these challenges can also lead you to experience a spectrum of emotions and experiences others can only dream of, and...

Sexuality and the State in the Middle East The LGBTI community in Turkey face real dangers. In 2015, the Turkish police interrupted the LGBTI Pride march in Istanbul, using tear gas and rubber bullets against the marchers. This marked the first attempt by the...

If you lifted this book from the shelf, you're probably interested in learning more about gender. You could be in the earliest stages of questioning, newly out, well into your transition, or an ally hoping to receive some extra tips and tricks. No matter...

'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson. 'Jim is as eloquent and elegant with words as with the camera... Read it and drink it in!' Helena Bonham Carter, In Solid Ivory, a...

What is socialist feminism and why is it needed to fight the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism? Frieda Afary brings the insights gained through her study of feminist philosophy, her international activism and her work in community education as a public librarian in...

The hilarious memoir from everyone's favourite Scottish drag queen and winner of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Lawrence Chaaaaaaney.'Gorgeous, hugely talented, funny, charismatic, adorable, Chaney is a goddess and brings us joy.' - Lorraine. Lawrence Chaney is a testament to the strength that comes from drag. Lawrence (Drag)...

Black Icons in Herstory features colourfully illustrated portraits and inspiring biographies of 50 of the most admired women in the fields of music, film, literature, politics, human rights, and more. This second book in our Icons series focuses exclusively on extraordinary Black women and...

'It was believed lightning would not strike a house that held a thunderstone. And so these fossils were placed on top of clocks, under floorboards, over stable doors . . . But there are some storms that thunderstones cannot prevent.'   In the wake of...

Warhol's Factory as seen through the lens of a young Shore, providing an insider view of this extraordinary moment and place Stephen Shore was 17 years old when he began hanging out at The Factory - Andy Warhol's legendary studio in Manhattan. Between 1965...

Two Dads, One Adoption and the Meaning of Parenthood A pause. 'Ah, Herr Fergusson. It's Frau Schwenk.' Our social worker, I now understood.'Thank you for getting back to me. I'm calling because we have a little boy, four weeks old, who needs a family.'...

A Memoir of My (In)Fertility From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story of her journey to pregnancy and motherhood as a 40 year-old, queer, uninsured woman. Written in intimate, gleefully...

Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics Identity politics has been a smear for decades. The right use it to lament the loss of free speech, while many on the left bemoan it as the end of class politics. It has been...

A Life of Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith - author of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY - had more than her fair share of secrets. During her life, she felt uncomfortable about discussing the source of her fiction and refused to...

100 simple, budget recipes that don't cost the earth Delicious and creative vegan recipes from no 1 bestselling writer and award-winning campaigner Jack Monroe. 'My theory is, if all of us adopted a few more plant-based meals into our diets on a weekly basis,...

Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Think about that first tickle of hunger in your stomach. A moment ago, you could have been thinking about anything, but now it's thickly buttered marmite toast, a frosty scoop of ice...

Become a Diet Rebel and Make Friends with Food Can you remember a time in your life without diets? Without seeing adverts for diets, hearing about diets, or being on a diet? Most of us would struggle to imagine it. Our obsession with being...

Ideas for a Better Future. The first step on the road to change is to imagine possibility. Imagine A Country offers visions of a new future from an astonishing array of Scottish voices, from comedians to economists, writers to musicians. Edited, curated and introduced...