June is Pride Month: Trans and Nonbinary Reads

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Updated June 1, 2023
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The gender creative child : pathways for nurturing and supporting children who live outside gender boxes
Ehrensaft, Diane
Paper Book
In her groundbreaking first book, Gender Born, Gender Made, Dr. Diane Ehrensaft coined the term gender creative to describe children whose unique gender expression or sense of identity is not defined by a checkbox on their birth certificate. Now, with The Gender Creative Child, she returns to...
The house of impossible beauties
Cassara, Joseph
Ebook
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed * Esquire * Bustle * The Millions * The Wall Street Journal * Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Elle * Dazed * The Irish Times 'Cassara has written a heartbreaking tale of gay men struggling to...
Nonbinary : memoirs of gender and identity
Rajunov, Micah
Paper Book
What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences...
This is how it always is
Frankel, Laurie
Paper Book
'Hilarious and heart-stoppingly emotional' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A fabulous book. Topical, moving, full of magic' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'I was captivated by the story of the love and acceptance this family shares for...
An unkindness of ghosts
Solomon, Rivers
Paper Book
For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human. When the autopsy of Matilda's...
Gender queer : a memoir
Kobabe, Maia
Paper Book
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns,thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographicalcomic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortablewith strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's...
I'm afraid of men
Shraya, Vivek
Paper Book
Named a Best Book by- The Globe and Mail, Indigo, Out Magazine, Audible, CBC, Apple, Quill & Quire, Kirkus Reviews, Brooklyn Public Library, Writers' Trust of Canada, Autostraddle, Bitch, and BookRiot. Finalist for the 2019Lambda Literary Award,...

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