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Margaret Killjoy
In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret Killjoy spins a tale of earth magic, power struggle, and self-invention in a powerful story of trans witchcraft.
Edited by Marisa Crawford
Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture
Lau Yee-Wa
A gripping psychological thriller steeped in the current political tensions in Hong Kong.
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Li Zi Shu
A wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace of storytelling.
Leticia Hernández-Linares and the Rise-Home Stories Project, illustrated by Robert Liu-Trujillo
Join nine-year-old Alejandria as she fights to save her neighborhood in this bilingual picture book!
Bishakh Som
By turns fantastical and familiar, this graphic short story collection is immersed in questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity.
Malika Moustadraf
A cult classic by Morocco’s foremost writer of life on the margins.
Anne Elizabeth Moore
In this new edition of a cult classic, an award-winning journalist catalogs the global toll of capitalism on our physical autonomy.
Edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna A. Zinzi
Community reporting that disrupts political and social norms in order to envision a Black, queer liberated future.
Juniper Fitzgerald
Combining sociological theory, fandom, and memoir, this experimental manifesto rejects dominant narratives about marginalized people.
Meena Alexander
In this evocative memoir, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.
Julián Delgado Lopera
This multilingual novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out.
Norman Erikson Pasaribu
Queer Indonesian writer Norman Erikson Pasaribu blends together speculative fiction and dark absurdism, drawing from Batak and Christian cultural elements.
Shahd Alshammari
This hybrid memoir revisits personal journals to slowly piece together a narrative of chronic illness—a moving account of survival, memory, loss, and hope.
María Fernanda Ampuero
This acclaimed short story collection by a groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature confronts machismo, inequity, and violence.
Jessica Zucker
This evocative memoir confronts the cultural silence around miscarriage and illuminates how to transform trauma into human connection.
Alice Hattrick
An intrepid, galvanizing meditation on illness, disability, feminism, and what it means to be alive.
Zora Neale Hurston
A collection preserving the legacy of one of the Harlem Renaissance’s greatest writers.
Mahsa Mohebali
In this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces.
Megan Milks
A queer coming-of-age novel about the twists and turns of gender, identity, and mystery.
Melissa Valentine
Set in rapidly gentrifying 1990s Oakland, this memoir explores siblinghood, adolescence, and grief in a family shattered by loss.
Barbara Molinard
A haunting, bizarre short story collection about violence, mental illness, and the warped contradictions of the twentieth-century female experience.
Carley Moore
During the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.
Luke Dani Blue
This debut story collection blurs fantasy and reality, excavating new meanings from our varied dysphorias.
From CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies, edited by Debanuj DasGupta, Joseph Donica, and Margot Weiss
Balsam Karam
A breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden’s most exciting new novelists.
Jamika Ajalon
A portrait of young Black artists in the 1990s London underground, whose existence is threatened by the rise of state surveillance.
Megan Milks
A deranged, otherworldly collection that disrupts gender, genre, and queer identity.
Asja Bakić
Eleven stories interweave feminist critique and science fiction into an irreverent portrait of our past, present, and future.
Michelle Tea
A glamorous drag queen teaches two siblings about the magic of dress up, self-expression, and imaginative storytelling.
Grace M. Cho
A Korean American daughter's exploration of food and family history, in order to understand her mother's schizophrenia.
Kyung-sook Shin
In this novel by a Man Asian Literary Prize-winning author, a neglected young woman experiences the violence and isolation of contemporary Korean society.
Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart-White
How Lakota Twins Fight Oppression and Heal through Connectedness
Cassandra Lane
A lyrical memoir reconstructing the lost history of a Black American family.
Edited by Marisa Crawford
Writing at the Intersections of Feminism, Literature, and Pop Culture
Dahlia de la Cerda
A debut collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny stories about Mexican women who fight, skirt, cheat, cry, kill, and lie their way to survival.