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National Non-Fiction Day: 31 Titles to Get Your Queer Learn On!

A graphic (one of three) with text that reads "31 Queer Non-Fiction Books for National Non-Fiction Day." There are six book covers on the graphic: "Fine" by Rhea Ewing; "Gender Born, Gender Made" by Diane Ehrensaft; "Dear Senthuran" by Akwaeke Emezi; "Fun Home" by Alison Bechdel; "Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex" by Angela Chen; "Here For It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America" by R. Eric Thomas; and "Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians" by Austen Hartke. The background of the graphic has indecipherable words in classic fonts overlaid with a rainbow, with red at the top, then orange, yellow, green, blue, and finally purple at the bottom.
Graphic Two (of three) of recommendations for non-fiction day - this graphic is a continuation of the first image in this series, though this one doesn't repeat the label. It shows the covers of 12 books. These books are:
"Bitch: On the Female of the Species" by Lucy Cooke
"Unmasking Autism" by Devon Price
"My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness" by Kabi Nagata
"Transister: Raising Twins in a Gender-Bending World" by Kate Brookes
"Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons" by John Paul Brammer
"Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century" by Graham Robb
"London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885 - 1914" by Matt Cook
"Queer Your Craft" by Cassandra Snow
"Female Husbands: A Trans History" by Jen Manion
"The Ethical Slut" by Janet W. W. Hardy and Dossie Easton
"The New Queer Conscience" by Adam Eli; and
"Before We Were Trans" by Kit Heyam.

The background of the graphic has indecipherable words in classic fonts overlaid with a rainbow, with red at the top, then orange, yellow, green, blue, and finally purple at the bottom.
Graphic three (of three) of recommendations for non-fiction day - this graphic is a continuation of the first image in this series, though this one doesn't repeat the label. It shows the covers of 12 books. These books are:
"Testosterone Rex: Myths of Sex, Science, and Society" by Cordelia Fine
"Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity" by Ryan Lee Cartwright
"Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference" by Cordelia Fine
"Queer Budapest, 1873 - 1961" by Anita Kurimay
"LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care" by Kimberly D. Acquaviva
"Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa" by T. J. Tallie
"Handbook of LGBT Elders" edited by Debra A. Harley and Pamela B. Teaster
"LGBT Transnational Identity and the Media" by Christopher Pullen
"Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations" by Serena Nanda
"LGBTQ Cultures: What Healthcare Professionals Need to Know about Sexual and Gender Diversity" by M. J. Eliason and P. L. Chinn
"The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment" by Cameron Awkward-Rich
"Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community" edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth

The background of the graphic has indecipherable words in classic fonts overlaid with a rainbow, with red at the top, then orange, yellow, green, blue, and finally purple at the bottom.

In the past year, we’ve posted a lot about our favorite queer fiction titles. We wanted to take Non-Fiction day to talk about the non-fiction titles that have impacted us! Whether self-help, memoirs, psychology, history, sociology, or a different non-fiction genre, these are books that have helped us learn, helped us teach, helped us improve, helped us see and be seen, and helped us be more informed. So join us as we introduce our thirty-one recommendations for National Non-Fiction Day!

You can view this list as a shelf on Goodreads!

It can be so difficult to find good non-fiction resources on queer topics. Which titles to DO you recommend?

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