Queer Studies

Queer studies is the critical theory based study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people and cultures. Universities have also labeled this area of analysis Sexual Diversity Studies, Sexualities Studies or LGBTQ Studies. Once only meaning odd or unusual, and later an anti-gay epithet, "queer" used in reference to LGBT communities remains controversial.

Originally centered on LGBT history and literary theory, the field has expanded to include the academic study of issues raised in biology, soc
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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism
Sounds Fake But Okay: An Asexual and Aromantic Perspective on Love, Relationships, Sex, and Pretty Much Anything Else
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies
Decolonize Drag (Decolonize That!)
Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Transgender History
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
Queer: A Graphic History (Graphic Guides)
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
Epistemology of the Closet
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
Stone Butch Blues
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Radium Girls by Kate  MooreRejected Princesses by Jason PorathGood Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena FavilliHidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly
The Overlooked Women of History
951 books — 225 voters

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
358 books — 71 voters
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Vita Sackville-WestViolet to Vita by John  PhillipsOpen Me Carefully by Emily DickinsonSister Love by Julie R. EnszerLove Letters by Virginia Woolf
Epistolary Lesbians
29 books — 13 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
570 books — 233 voters


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