Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a groundbreaking, personal, and informative guide for the transgender population, covering health, legal issues, cultural and social questions, history, theory, and more. It is a place for transgender and gender-questioning people, their partners and families, students, professors, guidance counselors, and others to look for up-to-date information on transgender life.
This poetry collection focuses on an Indigiqueer Trickster character named Zoa whos goal is to re-beautify and re-member queer Indigeneity. Following oral tradition (à la Iktomi, Nanaboozho, Wovoka), Zoa infects, invades, and becomes a virus to canonical and popular works in order to re-centre Two-Spirit livelihoods. Using deconstruction as a means of decolonization.they take on the likes of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and John Milton, as well as Lana Del Rey, Grindr, and Peter Pan.
This important book is the first to look at queer data – defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. The author shows us how current data practices reflect an incomplete account of LGBTQ lives and helps us understand how data biases are used to delegitimise the everyday experiences of queer people.
A compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. "A Two-Spirit Journey" is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian.
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body in the West. Hil Malatino explores how intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment assumed to require correction and how contesting this pathologization can promote medical reform and human rights for intersex and trans people.
In Black Trans Feminism, Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing categorizations.
This book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.
A powerful classic about shame, repression, and internalized homophobia. An American expat has spent much of his life convincing himself he isn’t gay. But then he meets bartender Giovanni. David struggles with his love for Giovanni, as his lover's room serves as a metaphor for his shame, hiding and self-hatred.
The story of Arjie's life, growing up queer in northern Sri Lanka, intersects with the conflict between the Tamil Tigers and the army. A wonderful early examination of the ways that queerness impacts ones life in more ways than simply in identity.
Essential black lesbian author Audre Lorde (known for invaluable contributions to queer theory, critical race theory, and feminism) wrote Zami as an ode to the complex relationships of women who are best friends, lovers, and coworkers in the fight for revolution. The book is half memoir, half novel.
Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation.
For twenty-five years Alison Bechdel's path-breaking Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip has been collected in award-winning volumes, syndicated in fifty alternative newspapers, and translated into many languages. Bechdel's countercultural and deeply queer band of friends - academics, social workers, bookstore clerks - fall in and out of love, negotiate friendships, raise children, switch careers, and cope with aging parents.
A queer Muslim searches for the language to express her truest self, making peace with her sexuality, her family, and Islam. Samira is a refugee to Canada, escaping religious and Ethinic persecution in Pakistan with her family, When Samra discovers that her mother has arranged her marriage, she must hide a part of herself -- the fun-loving, feminist teenager that has begun to bloom -- until she simply can't any longer. So begins a journey of self-discovery that takes her to Tokyo, where she comes to terms with her sexuality, and to a queer-friendly mosque in Toronto, where she returns to her faith in the same neighbourhood where she attended her first drag show.
Queer author and poet Allen Ginsberg is one of the iconic Beat poets. His work crossed boundary lines of explicit depictions of sex with other men, gender broadening and bending themes, and openly gay politics in a time where being queer was highly criminalized. This collection contains the poem "Howl", famous for the fact that in 1957, 520 copies were burned, a bookstore manager was arrested and jailed for selling the poem, and the publisher was arrested for publishing it.
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For a more specific and in depth list of potential 2SLGBTQ subject terms or search terms, check out the Homosaurus website. The organization was founded to create a centralized collection of search terms created by and for the community. 
You can also browse the shelves by call number range. Books about the 2SLGBTQ community are classified under a broad range of topics and genres, given the intersectionality of the community.
From an academic perspective, books classified as Queer Studies can be found under the call numbers HQ to HV, specifically HQ 70 through HQ 80.
Check out the guides below to learn how to search the Novanet catalogue:
The Library uses Library of Congress (LC) call numbers to arrange books and other materials on library shelves.
The call number consists of a series of letters and numbers and represents the subject of the book. Call numbers are found on the spines of books and in the catalogue.
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How it looks in the catalogue:
PR 4001 A32 Z75
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