Gender & Sexuality

Rachel Pollack
A colorful mix of science fiction, magic realism, memoir, and myth exploring themes of spirituality and transformation. Courage and cowardice contend in a literary odyssey unlike any other.

Editors: Amelia Bonow and Emily Nokes • Foreword: Lindy West
A collection of photos, essays, and creative work. A template for building new communities of healing. A call to action.

Silvia Federici • Foreword: Peter Linebaugh
This collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions of capital.

Silvia Federici
A feminist call to arms providing new ways of understanding the methods in which women resist victimization and offers a reminder that reconstructing the memory of the past is crucial for the struggles of the present.

Jacinta Bunnell
This is the perfect book for the gender creative person in your life. The future is gender fabulous.

China Martens
A timeless resource for parents, caregivers, and those who care about them. First published in the '90s, the essays and observations—about parenting, children, and surviving a hostile political climate—still ring true.

Editors: Iain McIntyre and Andrew Nette
The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction.

Juliana “Jewels” Smith • Illustrated by Ronald Nelson
An unflinching visual and literary tour-de-force on the most pressing issues of the day— including gentrification, police violence, and housing—with humor and biting satire.

Editor: Tomas Moniz
Rad Families: A Celebration honors the messy, the painful, the playful, the beautiful, the myriad ways we create families.

Emma Goldman - Editor: Shawn P. Wilbur
"The Sex Question" emerged for Goldman in multiple contexts as varied as women's suffrage, "free love," birth control, the "New Woman," homosexuality, marriage, love, and literature.

Alana Apfel
Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities.

Michelle Cruz Gonzales
This memoir details Spitboy's travels while chronicling their successes and failures, and for Gonzales, discovering her own identity along the way.

Editors: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams
Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ‘80s, this anthology centers around mothers of color and marginalized mothers' voices.

Marge Piercy
These short essays, poems, and personal memoirs intermingle like shards of glass that shine, reflect—and cut. Always personal yet always political, Piercy's work is drawn from a deep well of feminist and political activism.

Jacinta Bunnell and Leela Corman
Grab your crayons and your backpack for a fantastical journey through sixty-four pages illustrating twenty-six words that highlight memorable victories and collective moments in LGBTQP culture.

Rachelle Lee Smith
This book is a photographic essay that explores a wide spectrum of experiences told from the perspective of a diverse group of young people, ages fourteen to twenty-four, identifying as queer.

Editors: Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
This curated selection of feminist speculative fiction seeks to expand the conversation about feminism while engaging the reader in a wealth of imaginative ideas.

Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy's debut collection of short stories spans decades of her writing and brings us glimpses into the lives of everyday women moving through and making sense of their daily internal and external worlds.

Karen Joy Fowler
Known for her bestseller, The Jane Austen Book Club, here she offers a short collection of perceptive, entertaining, thought-provoking, and often hilarious speculative stories with a progressive and feminist edge.

Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy turns her considerable skill and passion to the Fifties in this portrait of women in transition from repression to freedom. This new edition features a new introduction by the author.

Chris Crass
Towards Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change.

Victoria Law
Resistance examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices while documenting both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S.

Nalo Hopkinson
“Report from Planet Midnight” takes on race and racism in literature. In “Message in a Bottle,” an American Indian who doesn't like children is befriended by a strange four-year-old, who seems wise beyond her years.

Selma James
Spanning six decades, Selma James's work set a new political perspective for millions of unwaged women, redefining the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as marginal.

Marge Piercy
Originally published in 1979, Vida is Marge Piercy's classic bookend to the '60s. Vida is full of the pleasures and pains, the experiments, disasters, and victories of an extraordinary band of people.