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Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform - Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Editor)
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are shut down to make way for wedding vows, and gay sexual culture morphs into "straight-acting dudes hangin' out,"...
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Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars - Ryan Conrad (Editor) and Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (Preface by)
Another great/essential one from Against Equality Press!!!!

This anthology gathers together pieces by contemporary radical voices critical of the mainstream gay community's uncritical approach to Don't Ask Don't Tell. It features an introduction by the inimitable Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and essays by writers from AE's digital archives on LGBT investments in militarism. This archival anthology asks...
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Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law - Dean Spade
Brand new from South End Press!

Much of the legal advocacy for trans and gender nonconforming people in the US has reflected the civil rights and "equality" strategies of mainstream gay and lesbian organizations—agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee equal access, nondiscrimination, and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the state and its legal, polic...
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex - Nat Smith (Editor) and Eric A. Stanley (Editor)
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Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understan...
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Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme - Zena Sharman (Editor) and Ivan E. Coyote (Editor)
In the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and ...
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Violence within Activist Communitites - Andrea Smith (Preface by), Jai Dulani (Editor), Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor), and Ching-In Chen (Editor)
The extent of the violence affecting our communities is staggering. Nearly one in three women in the United States will experience intimate violence in her lifetime. And while intimate violence affects relationships across the sexuality and gender spectrums, the likelihood of isolation and irreparable harm, including death, is even greater within LGBTQI communities. To effectively resist violence out there&m...
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Butch is a Noun - S. Bear Bergman
Butch is a Noun, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman, won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as ...
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Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage - Against Equality Collective, Ryan Conrad (Editor), and Yasmin Nair (Introduction by)
While what feels like the entirety of the gay and lesbian movement is marching in unison towards some vague notion of equality, the Against Equality collective has been quietly assembling a digital archive to document the critical resistance to the politics of inclusion. This pocket-sized book lays out some of the historical foundations of queer resistance to the gay marriage mainstream alongside more contem...
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Creating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade - Ward Churchill (Preface by) and Daniel Burton-Rose
This panoramic overview chronicles the activities of the George Jackson Brigade, a radical, 1970s, multiracial and sexually diverse organization—veterans of prisoners', women's, gay, and black liberation movements. The Brigade embraced bank robberies and armed insurrection to wage war against what they felt was an unjust government. Through a wide array of surveillance reports, feature articles from ma...
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Shut Up & Love the Rain - Robnoxious (Illustrator)
In Shut Up and Love the Rain, Oakland-based zinester Robnoxious takes along his path from early sexual exploration to his current sex-positive, constantly-deprogramming, über-healthy queerness! Rob's writing and comics show us that experimentation should start early, that guilty pleasures needn't be guilty, and that talking it over and being honest with each other will lead to nothin' but good. O...
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