Li Kotomi: Solo Dance

UK 2022, 256 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
World Editions
Cho Norie is forced to keep her lesbian life hidden. She is 27 and originally from Taiwan, working an office job now in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to keep her unconventional life hidden - especially her sexuality and the violent attack that prompted her move to Japan. There ... Weiterlesen

Glyn Fussell: Sink the Pink's Manifesto for Misfits

UK 2022, 176 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
White Lion Publishing
»Sink the Pink's Manifesto for Misfits« is dedicated to you: from finding your power to dreaming big, owning your space to chasing your joy, embracing your uniqueness to broadening your narrative, each cis-tem-crashing chapter will revolutionise how you see yourself, no matter where you are on your journey. Discover within thinkpieces, reflective exercises and living testimony from a brave community ... Weiterlesen

JD Glass: Punk Like Me

D 2016, 253 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag
Nina, at 21, is standing at the edge of »being« and »becoming.« She remembers when her parents, and the nuns, and everyone else seemed to have plans for her, of who she was and who she'd be. Her dad calls »punk« anything and anyone that disobeys the norms. And then there's Nina's feelings. Feelings for her friend Kerry, feelings from ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Cosmopolitans

USA 2016, 296 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press
A modern retelling of Balzac's classic »Cousin Bette« by one of America's most prolific lesbian writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York ... Weiterlesen

Lois Cloarec Hart: Stone Gardens

D 2015, 334 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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Ylva Verlag
For years, Grae Jordan has been trapped in a purgatory of her own making. She has spiralled from the privileged life into which she was born to the lowest stratum of society. Grae guards her heart with a protective wall as hard as granite, adorns her body with tattoos and metal, and eschews dating the women she once enjoyed. A ... Weiterlesen

Michael V. Smith: My Body is Yours

A Memoir. CAN 2015, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press
The author is a multihyphenate force of nature, a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male - a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family, a sissy, an insecure teenager desperate to disappear, and ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree

Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. USA 2012, 976 S., brochure, € 18.50
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Simon and Schuster
In »Far from the Tree«, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon's startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are ... Weiterlesen

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (ed.): That's Revolting!

Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation. USA 2008 (Rev., expanded edition), 350 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Publishers Group West
As the growing gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value. What's more, queers remain under attack. Gay youth shelters can be vetoed because they might reduce property values. Trannies are out because they might offend straights. »That's Revolting!« offers a bracing tonic to these trends. ... Weiterlesen

Graeme Aitken: 50 Ways of Saying Fabulous

AUS 2006, 241 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Sweet, fat, theatrical Billy-Boy was never cut out to be a farmer, but as his father's only son he's obliged to try. The cows are wayward and the chores are gruelling. But Billy finds escape in a fantasy world where the turnip paddock becomes a lunar landscape, a lavender bed jacket a slinky space suit, a cow's tail a head ... Weiterlesen

José Esteban Munoz: Disidentifications

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. USA 1999, 227 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
University of Minnesota Press
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process »disidentification«, and through a ... Weiterlesen