Memoir + Essay

“Can I kiss you?” It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung hea...

Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former s...

Pass with Care is a testament to trans resilience, queer joy, and the power of finding freedom and adventure within a community of your own creati...

This is a sex book. It’s a book about having sex by yourself, with one person, or with twenty people if everyone is down. It’s about saying words l...

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the...

“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre ...

A national bestseller from the “prolific and exceptionally insightful” (Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay,Difficult Women is a collection of stories of ra...

Jill Gutowitz’s life—for better and worse—has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There’s the time the FBI showed up at her door be...

This one-of-a-kind book shares intimate personal stories of porn performers "coming out" to family, friends, partners, lovers, and community. The c...

Event producer, music director and community organizer Elaina Martin has, over the past three decades, become widely known in Eastern Ontario, bols...

In Dyke II, A Memoir, renowned event producer, music director, and community organizer Elaina Martin pries open the hidden doors first hinted at in...

"When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. Me though? ...

By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a lovi...

A transformative memoir by a queer disabled woman of colour and abuse survivor. Lambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction f...

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great book...

A magical guide to subverting manboy power, one spell at a time Skeptics might think witchcraft is nothing more than a fad, but make no mistake: ...

From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultur...

Others have turned to Janet W. Hardy's 'The Ethical Slut', 'The New Topping Book' and 'The New Bottoming Book' - for advice on the most challenging...

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's ...

The frank and bracing memoir of a woman who spent ten years as a stripper. This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten yea...

Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biolo...

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...

The second of three instalments of a graphic tale, it recounts Tierney’s real-life experiences navigating the medical system as a trans person seek...

In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) e...