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Normal Life
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
AvDean Spade
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
264 kr
Revised and Expanded EditionWait-what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions. But is this strategy effective?In Normal Life Dean Spade presents revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence.In the new afterword to this revised and expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration and trans equality advocates to "pinkwash" state violence by articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.
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White Tears Brown Scars
How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour
AvRuby Hamad
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
126 kr
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'Powerful and provocative' - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, author of the Sunday Times bestselling How to be an Antiracist'A MUST read for any white women who consider themselves "feminist"' - Scarlett Curtis, author of the Sunday Times bestselling Feminists Don't Wear Pink 'An explosive and revelatory argument for deconstructing and confronting the entrenched notions of white supremacy and superiority that still reign today.' - Mireille Harper 'How is it that we have been so conditioned to privilege the emotional comfort of white people?'White tears possess a potency that is rarely acknowledged or commented upon, but they have long been used as a dangerous and insidious tool against people of colour, weaponised in order to invoke sympathy and divert blame. Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep 'ownership' of their slaves, through centuries of colonialism, when women offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, in which tears serve as a defense to counter accusations of bias and micro-aggressions, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long-overdue validation of the experiences of women of colour and an urgent call-to-arms in the need for true intersectionality.With rigour and precision, Hamad builds a powerful argument about the legacy of white superiority that we are socialised within, a reality that we must all apprehend in order to fight.
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Queerteologi, typ
AvJohanna Wikberg
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
200 kr
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Välkommen till queerteologins förunderliga värld! Kristen tro och queerhet kan vid första anblicken verka som en oväntad kombo. Men kyrkan har alltid haft queera marginaler och heliga regnbågsfärgade rum. Här finns en queerteologisk tradition av bibelverser där queers förvaltat sin relation med Gud. I den här serieboken kommer vi utforska den hemliga trädgården där queer kristen tro spirar. Och såklart gå igenom queerteologiska perspektiv på skapelsen, vad Jesus sa som är bekräftande för hbtqia-personer idag, plattmaskar, Jesajas kallelse, dinosaurie-tröjor, Gud och vad en luthersk syn på kallelse kan innebära för transpersoner. Det vill säga queerteologi, typ.
Kristna regnbågsrörelsen samlar och stöttar kristna hbtqia+ personer och allierade och verkar för att kyrkor och samhället ska vara trygga platser, för livet och för tron.
Fetischism : om attraktion bortom kön i ett könsattraktionsnormativt samhälle
AvDavid Nilsson-Jatko
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
107 kr
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Denna bok handlar om fetischism i den sexualvetenskapliga bemärkelsen: Sexualitet där attraktion ges av något föremål bortom kön. Boken återger fetischistisk sexualitet på ett inkluderande och normmedvetet sätt. Den ger en historisk bakgrund till samhällets synsätt på fetischism och synliggör nutida sexualnormer som marginaliserar sexuella minoriteter. Boken granskar samhälleliga förhållningssätt till fetischism och belyser den sociokulturella situationen som fetischister sätts i. En medvetenhet om fetischism och nutida sexualnormer gör det möjligt att förhålla sig till sexuell mångfald i stort.
Queer Phenomenology
Orientations, Objects, Others
AvSara Ahmed
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
285 kr
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In this groundbreaking work, Sara Ahmed demonstrates how queer studies can put phenomenology to productive use. Focusing on the “orientation” aspect of “sexual orientation” and the “orient” in “orientalism,” Ahmed examines what it means for bodies to be situated in space and time. Bodies take shape as they move through the world directing themselves toward or away from objects and others. Being “orientated” means feeling at home, knowing where one stands, or having certain objects within reach. Orientations affect what is proximate to the body or what can be reached. A queer phenomenology, Ahmed contends, reveals how social relations are arranged spatially, how queerness disrupts and reorders these relations by not following the accepted paths, and how a politics of disorientation puts other objects within reach, those that might, at first glance, seem awry.Ahmed proposes that a queer phenomenology might investigate not only how the concept of orientation is informed by phenomenology but also the orientation of phenomenology itself. Thus she reflects on the significance of the objects that appear-and those that do not-as signs of orientation in classic phenomenological texts such as Husserl’s Ideas. In developing a queer model of orientations, she combines readings of phenomenological texts-by Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon-with insights drawn from queer studies, feminist theory, critical race theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis. Queer Phenomenology points queer theory in bold new directions.
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Kristen och homosexuell : så funkar det!
AvJohanna Wikberg
Häftad, Svenska, 2022
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
140 kr
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Frågan huruvida det är okej att vara gay har livligt diskuterats i kyrkan sen urminnes tider, kanske ända sen Jesus gick i kortbyxor. Är du nyfiken på hbtq-vänlig bibelläsning men inte pallar att läsa en torr tråkig avhandling om Bibelns grundtexter, Paulus samtid och romarrikets sexualetik? I så fall är det här boken för dig. I gott sällskap av räkor och filosofi-gubbar i toga går vi igenom det man behöver veta om Bibel, teologi och historia för att kunna svara på frågan om det funkar att vara kristen och homosexuell. Ja, det funkar alldeles utmärkt, häng med så får du veta hur!
Johanna Wikberg (f.-89 i Medelpad) bosatt i Göteborg, är teolog och präst i Svenska kyrkan. 2017-2021 ordförande för Riksförbundet EKHO och är en flitigt anlitad föreläsare i queerteologi och hbtq-inkluderande församlingsarbete.
Kristna regnbågsrörelsen samlar och stöttar kristna hbtqia+ personer och allierade och verkar för att kyrkor och samhället ska vara trygga platser, för livet och för tron.
First Homosexuals
The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939
AvJonathan D. Katz
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
651 kr
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‘Erudite and sumptuous’ – The New York TimesA groundbreaking, global survey of queer art, featuring more than 300 artworks made following the introduction of the term ‘homosexual’ in 1869An unprecedented and historic new book, The First Homosexuals traces the evolution of the homosexual identity through an archive of more than 300 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, photographs, and film stills from around the world – many presented in a queer, global, and colonial context for the first time. Accompanying the works are twenty-two original, insightful essays by leading experts in art and queer history, each focusing on one geographical region – from Japan to Australia to the Indigenous populations of South America. Ranging from well-known masterpieces to works by unknown artists and pieces rarely considered in the context of sexuality, The First Homosexuals offers a stunning and illuminating look at the first self-consciously queer art. The book accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition of the same name presented at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago.Featured artists include Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Félix Vallotton, Harriet Hosmer, Katsushika Hokusai, Kitagawa Utamaro, Frederic Leighton, Simeon Solomon, Giovanni Boldini, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Berenice Abbott, Clare Atwood, Duncan Grant, Laura Rodig, Carl van Vechten, Beauford Delaney, Anna Klumpke, Sarah Bernhardt, Walter Sickert, Florence Carlyle, Florence Wyle, Frances Loring, Ottilie Roederstein, Florine Stettheimer, Nasta Rojc, Glyn Philpot, Romaine Brooks, Ismael Nery, Manuel Rodríguez Lozano, Roberto Montenegro, María Izquierdo, Emilio Baz Viaud, Konstantin Somov, Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Alice Austen, Emilie Mundt, Bertha Wegmann, Thomas Anshutz, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, Marie Laurencin, Gerda Wegener, Lili Elbe, Gregorio Prieto, Jorge Larco, Pavel Tchelitchew, Andrey Avinoff, Gustave Courtois, Carlos Baca-Flor, Gustave Moreau, Henry Scott Tuke, Sascha Schneider, Ludwig von Hofmann, Max Oppenheimer, Eugène Jansson, Osmar Schindler, George Platt Lynes, Agnes Goodsir, Tamara de Lempicka, Pedro Lira, Wilhelm von Gloeden, Ladislav Mednyánszky, F. Holland Day, Kristian Zahrtmann, Violet Oakley, Rupert Bunny, Saturnino Herrán, David Paynter, Lionel Wendt, Richmond Barthé, Richard Bruce Nugent, Lady Una Troubridge, Jean Cocteau, Léon Bakst, Lumière Brothers, Marie Höeg & Bolette Berg, José Guadalupe Posada, Claude Cahun, Toyen, Toni Ebel, and Elisàr von Kupffer (Elisarion).
Bögen är lös
AvEdvin Törnblom
Pocket, Svenska, 2023
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
90 kr
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Årets bok på QX Gaygala 2023
En utbildande och dråplig instruktionsbok om att leva som queer idag.
På tal om det: Vad betyder ens queer, varför beskylldes vår första homosexuella kung för digerdöden och hur ser villkoren ut för HBTQI-personer i andra länder? Journalisten och programledaren Edvin Törnblom blandar fakta och historia med djupt personliga berättelser om hur han formats som människa – från de allra mörkaste stunderna med mobbing och självmordsförsök till inspirerande händelser som fått honom att landa i acceptans och kärlek. Allt formulerat med Edvins unika humor, som gjort honom till en framstående röst för sin generation.
”… det är ofiltrerat, ärligt och humoristiskt … en välbehövlig storebror för den som likt Törnblom saknar hbtq-förebilder under uppväxten.” BTJ
”Den prydliga lilla boken gör det som ens mattelärare försökte göra hela högstadiet: makes learning fun. Tung och viktig (!!) fakta om hur hbtqi-personer har upplevt och fortfarande upplever förtryck blandas med Edvins träffsäkra humor och för mig till en otroligt trygg plats – en plats fylld av igenkänning.” Tidningen Ergo
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Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy
Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go
AvLola Phoenix
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
183 kr
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'Invaluable' RACHEL KRAMER BUSSEL 'Refreshingly honest, comprehensive and realistic' MEG-JOHN BARKEREmbarking on a non-monogamous relationship can be a daunting experience, opening old wounds that cause anxiety, fear and confusion, something Lola Phoenix knows about all too well.In this all-you-need-to-know guide to exploring non-monogamy, polyamory and open relationships, Lola draws upon their years of experience in giving advice and being non-monogamous to provide guidance for every stage of your journey, helping you to prioritise your mental health and well being along the way.Beginning with advice on starting out - such as finding your anchor, figuring out your personal reasons for pursuing non-monogamy, challenging your fears and practicing self-compassion - the book proceeds to cover the emotional aspects of non-monogamous relationships, including dealing with jealousy and judgement, managing anxiety and maintaining independence, as well as practical elements such as scheduling your time, negotiating boundaries and managing your expectations, all accompanied with activities for further exploration.Whether you are new to non-monogamy, or have been non-monogamous for years, this insightful and empowering book will provide you with the emotional tools you will need to live a happy non-monogamous life.
Out of the Shadows
The Psychology of Gay Men's Lives
AvWalt Odets
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
127 kr
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'Odets's warm and lyrical voice, his inspiring picture of how imaginative gay life can be, has sent me queuing for the couch.' Evening Standard'A gay man could read this book as if his life depended on it - and perhaps it does' Andrew Holleran, author of Dancer from the DanceEven in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man. While young men often come out more readily, even those from the most liberal of backgrounds still struggle to accept themselves and experience stigma, shame and difficulties with intimate relationships. They also suffer from ongoing trauma wrought by the AIDS epidemic, something that is all too often relegated to history.Drawing on a lifetime's work as a clinical psychologist, Walt Odets uses the stories of his patients as well as those of his own deep relationships with other gay men to illuminate how these difficulties may be overcome. From a 74-year-old who only felt able to come out after his wife had died, to the boy raised in a strict religious family who worked his way to San Francisco, to the middle-aged defence lawyer who left everything behind to embrace a new life, the experiences here explore everything from grief to survival, childhood pain to the definition of gay itself. Out of the Shadows shows us how a new way forward is possible through learning to accept ourselves and others as they are, and independently inventing our own lives.
So Gay for You
Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All
AvKate Moennig,Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennigm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
322 kr
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*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*An intimate, hilarious memoir of art, friendship, queerness, and found family by Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey, stars of The L Word—including never-before-shared stories and photos from behind the scenes of the show and their personal lives. "Are you comfortable with nudity?" my manager asked.In the early 2000s, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey—both young artists trying to figure it all out—met at auditions for an unknown little TV show. Given that it was a show about lesbians living in Los Angeles, with the first ever ensemble cast of openly queer female characters, Kate and Leisha knew the project was going to be unlike anything else out there—that is, if it even got picked up.Then, one million people watched the premiere. The show, which came to be called The L Word, turned into a trailblazing phenomenon. Its influence on pop culture, in the political arena, and in the lives of viewers has been lasting, impactful, even life-saving. And in addition to changing the course of television history, The L Word changed Kate and Leisha's lives forever. Suddenly, they were the faces of lesbian culture in a society still hostile to queerness. And one of them wasn't even out yet.Luckily, they had each other. From their first day on set, Kate and Leisha were so inseparable that the cast joked they were like a pair of pants—you couldn't have one leg without the other. Hence the name for their branded partnership and podcast, PANTS, launched in 2020 and downloaded over twenty million times.This friendship has seen Kate and Leisha through their greatest triumphs and most painful moments, stumbling from closeted queer kids to LGBTQ+ activists, actors, podcasters, and business owners. Full of never-before-shared glimpses into the making of The L Word, Kate and Leisha's real-life loves and losses, and their experiences as queer icons, So Gay for You is a heartfelt, inspiring love letter to a ride or die friendship over the decades, and a testament to the liberating power of chosen family.
Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
AvJudith Butler
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
375 kr
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One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.
Feminist, Queer, Crip
AvAlison Kafer
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
285 kr
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In Feminist, Queer, Crip Alison Kafer imagines a different future for disability and disabled bodies. Challenging the ways in which ideas about the future and time have been deployed in the service of compulsory able-bodiedness and able-mindedness, Kafer rejects the idea of disability as a pre-determined limit. She juxtaposes theories, movements, and identities such as environmental justice, reproductive justice, cyborg theory, transgender politics, and disability that are typically discussed in isolation and envisions new possibilities for crip futures and feminist/queer/crip alliances. This bold book goes against the grain of normalization and promotes a political framework for a more just world.
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Lost and Found
A Compassionate Guide to Homeownership
AvMercury Stardust
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
270 kr
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The trans handy ma’am is back … and this time she’s buying a house and taking her loyal audience along on the journey.In this successor to the #1 New York Times bestseller Safe and Sound, Mercury Stardust demystifies the path to homeownership and sets you up for homeowning success. Learn about the ups and downs of the house hunting process—from putting in an offer to going through inspections and closing—and then join Mercury as she tackles her first year with a fixer-upper that needs to be renovated and updated.With DIY projects and guides for renovating and maintaining every part of your new house, as well as with tips for weather-proofing and maintaining outdoor spaces like a deck or garden, Lost and Found will empower you to create your dream home. Mercury reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly, including all the emotional highs and lows when things break, emergencies arise, and the unexpected inevitably happens.
Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
AvAudre Lorde
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
323 kr
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“Sister Outsider, a collection of essays and speeches by the pioneering feminist Audre Lorde, is one of my all-time-favorite books. It’s always great to have an intersectional tome on hand.” —Amanda Gorman "Sister Outsider's teachings, by one of our most revered elder stateswomen, should be read by everyone." —EssencePresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne. A New York Times New & Noteworthy bookA Penguin Vitae EditionIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. The groundbreaking feminist's timely collection of nonfiction writings on race, gender, and LGBTQ issues is now for the first time in Penguin Classics as part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by poet Mahogany L. Browne. Penguin Classics launches a new hardcover series with five American classics that are relevant and timeless in their power, and part of a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from almost seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.
Fabulosa!
The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
AvPaul Baker
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
149 kr
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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019‘Richly evocative and entertaining.’ – Guardian‘A delightful read.’ – Tatler‘An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari Bona!’ – AttitudePolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It offered its speakers a degree of public camouflage and a means of identification. Its colourful roots are varied – from Cant to Lingua Franca to dancers’ slang – and in the mid-1960s it was thrust into the limelight by the characters Julian and Sandy, voiced by Hugh Paddick and Kenneth Williams, on the BBC radio show Round the Horne. (‘Oh hello Mr Horne, how bona to vada your dolly old eek!’) Paul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, humour and tenderness. He traces its historical origins and describes its linguistic nuts and bolts, explores the ways and the environments in which it was spoken, explains the reasons for its decline and tells of its unlikely re-emergence in the twenty-first century. With a cast of drag queens and sailors, Dilly boys and macho clones, Fabulosa! is an essential document of recent history – a fascinating and fantastically readable account of this funny, filthy and ingenious language.
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Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life
A History of Sex and Science
AvRoss Brooks
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
304 kr
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A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of animal courtship painted a comfortingly traditional picture: males were belligerent show-offs, females were choosy and skittish, and the two came together in unions curiously akin to human marriage. But in truth, the forefathers of evolutionary science were acutely aware that this was not the whole story. The reality was far more messy and ambiguous.In this iconoclastic history, Ross Brooks shows how queerness was at the heart of evolutionists’ thinking about the natural world. From hermaphroditic slugs and sex-changing birds to male pigeon lactation, pregnant male seahorses, and bisexual pigs, Darwin and his fellow naturalists were privately in awe of nature’s sexual diversity. These encounters fundamentally shaped their understanding of plants, animals, and humans, even if they were never fully acknowledged in their published writings.Brooks radically exposes us to the hidden queerness of Georgian and Victorian science—and shows how nature has always been more sexually diverse than we’ve been told.
Terrorist Assemblages
Homonationalism in Queer Times
AvJasbir K. Puar
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
334 kr
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Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionTen years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and scholarly pursuits. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects into the fold of the nation-state, shifting queers from their construction as figures of death to subjects tied to ideas of life and productivity. This tenuous inclusion of some queer subjects depends, however, on the production of populations of Orientalized terrorist bodies. Heteronormative ideologies that the U.S. nation-state has long relied on are now accompanied by what Puar calls homonationalism-a fusing of homosexuality to U.S. pro-war, pro-imperialist agendas. As a concept and tool of biopolitical management, homonationalism is here to stay. Puar’s incisive analyses of feminist and queer responses to the Abu Ghraib photographs, the decriminalization of sodomy in the wake of the Patriot Act, and the profiling of Sikh Americans and South Asian diasporic queers are not instances of a particular historical moment; rather, they are reflective of the dynamics saturating power, sexuality, race, and politics today. This Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition features a new foreword by Tavia Nyong’o and a postscript by Puar entitled “Homonationalism in Trump Times.” Nyong’o and Puar recontextualize the book in light of the current political moment while reposing its original questions to illuminate how Puar’s interventions are even more vital and necessary than ever.
Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
AvLarry Mitchell
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
160 kr
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“Part fairy tale, part radical manifesto, entirely unequaled.” —The New York TimesA facsimile edition of the classic 1970s book with new essays and archival material.The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, written by Larry Mitchell with illustrations by Ned Asta, takes place in a brutal empire in decline, where the faggots and their friends are surviving the ways and the world of men. Beloved by many since its original publication in 1977, now with new essays by Morgan Bassichis and Tourmaline, this book offers a trenchant and irreverent critique of capitalism, assimilation, and patriarchy that is deeply relevant today.
The Ayatollah's Gaze
A Memoir of the Forbidden and Fabulous
AvMajid Parsa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
198 kr
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'Powerfully eye-opening' Attitude Magazine'Reveals a hidden life of music, parties and love – daring to exist where it’s outlawed' TelegraphAn unflinching memoir about growing up in Iran where homosexuality is punishable by death, and yet underground, hidden from Sharia law, is a vibrant gay scene threatening to burst open.The dawn prayer calls echo through the streets. As many make their way to mosques, for some it signals the end of another illegal gay party. Under the cover of darkness, smiles on lips and sweat on foreheads, the gays of Tehran blend back into daily life. Hidden in plain sight, they plan when and where they will meet again.In an unparalleled true story, Majid Parsa recounts how a childhood of war, prayer and obedience was upended by a teenage sexual awakening and, ultimately, pride. He lifts the heavy veil of persecution to reveal the fabulous and flamboyant gay scene right at the heart of the Islamic Republic of Iran, flourishing under the ever-present shadow of the grand Ayatollah and morality police. Eye-opening and at times laugh-out-loud funny, The Ayatollah’s Gaze is a story of self-discovery in a country where Sharia is the law.'Defiant, fabulous and filled with the nuanced challenges so many young queer people struggle to make sense of: family, faith, tradition, affection and belonging. I loved this intimate, heartbreaking coming-of-age story' Henry Fry, author of First Time for Everything'The Protagonist, Majid, epitomises the duality of identity. He struggles with his Islamic faith and his burgeoning sexual awakening as a gay man. He finally emerges as a proud peacock but there is a cost to his freedom' Khakan Qureshi, LGBTQ+ activist and founder of Finding a Voice'When I wasn’t laughing with the cast of larger-than-life characters, I was crying and shaking my head in sadness and disbelief . . . an important story for our times, and a testament to how we can find joy in even the bleakest of circumstances' Iqbal Hussain, author of Northern Boy
Jag är inte död
AvErik Engelv
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
3,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(8)
165 kr
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”Hej mamma. Jag är inte död. Jag skrev ett brev till dig, som blev en hel bok.” Eriks föräldrar kommer med begravningsfika. Tårta, kaffe och en bukett rosor. De ska ta farväl av sin son. Han sitter där livs levande, men för dem är han snart borta för alltid. Han vädjar till dem, de vädjar till honom, men de kan inte nå varandra. Det finns ingen kompromiss i det här, Erik måste få leva. Då måste han då dö för dem. Erik Engelv dödförklarades av sin familj när han kom ut som homosexuell. För ett Jehovas vittne kommer Gud före allt, även familjeband. Så han dog – och föddes på nytt. ”Jag är inte död” är Eriks kärleksförklaring. I ett slags brev till sin mamma berättar han om allt hon missar. Det är också en vacker skildring av en trygg och lycklig uppväxt i ett litet jämtländskt samhälle, skriven med en unik inblick i Jehovas vittnen. En varm gemenskap som plötsligt byts mot ett iskallt utanförskap. Men Erik är inte död, han lever sitt liv. ***** Viktig, smärtsam och vacker bok. ***** Finner inte ord men man kan nästan ta på smärtan författaren måste känna att vara levande död. ***** En utelämnande och naken berättelse. En bok alla borde läsa. All kärlek till dig Erik.
In the Closet of the Vatican
Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy; THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AvFrederic Martel
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
186 kr
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The New York Times Bestseller - Revised and Expanded"[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption" - National Catholic ReporterThe arrival of Frédéric Martel’s In the Closet of the Vatican, published worldwide in eight languages, sent shockwaves through the religious and secular world. The book’s revelations of clericalism, hypocrisy, cover-ups and widespread homosexuality in the highest echelons of the Vatican provoked questions that the most senior Vatican officials--and the Pope himself--were forced to act upon; it would go on to become a New York Times bestseller. Now, almost a year after the book’s first publication, Frédéric Martel reflects in a new foreword on the effect the book has had and the events that have come to light since it was first released.In the Closet of the Vatican describes the double lives of priests--including the cardinals living with their young "assistants" in luxurious apartments whilst professing humility and chastity--the cover-up of numerous cases of sexual abuse; sinister scheming in the Vatican; political conspiracy overseas in Argentina and Chile, and the resignation of Benedict XVI.From his unique position as a respected journalist with uninhibited access to some of the Vatican’s most influential people and private spaces, Martel presents a shattering account of a system rotten to its very core.
Velvet Rage
Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
AvAlan Downs
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
184 kr
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This groundbreaking and empowering book examines the impact of growing up and surviving as a gay man in a society still learning to accept all identities.In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately describe the stages of a gay man's journey out of shame and offers practical and inspired strategies to stop the cycle of avoidance and self-defeating behavior. The Velvet Rage is an empowering book that has already changed the public discourse on gay culture and helped shape the identity of an entire generation of gay men.
Ace
What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
AvAngela Chen
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
171 kr
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An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that’s obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.What exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face—confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships—are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, Ace addresses the misconceptions around the “A” of LGBTQIA and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy.Journalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of asexual people. Vulnerable and honest, these stories include a woman who had blood tests done because she was convinced that “not wanting sex” was a sign of serious illness, and a man who grew up in a religious household and did everything “right,” only to realize after marriage that his experience of sexuality had never been the same as that of others. Disabled aces, aces of color, gender-nonconforming aces, and aces who both do and don’t want romantic relationships all share their experiences navigating a society in which a lack of sexual attraction is considered abnormal. Chen’s careful cultural analysis explores how societal norms limit understanding of sex and relationships and celebrates the breadth of sexuality and queerness.
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House
AvGilbert McCarragher
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
250 kr
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'Its exterior is one of the most photographed in Britain — but the inside of the artist and director’s home has seldom been seen, until now... a riveting portrait of the later years of an important British artist' Sunday Times Over a near-decade from 1986, the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman and his partner Keith Collins created a home and sanctuary at Prospect Cottage. After Jarman’s death in 1994, Collins hung net curtains to shield the home they had shared from the eyes of visitors to Prospect’s world-famous garden. In 2018, the photographer Gilbert McCarragher, a friend and neighbour in Dungeness, was asked to record the house, a vital artwork in its own right. It was the first time this private world had been so extensively chronicled. Unfolding room by room, McCarragher’s photographs are accompanied by reflective essays that take the reader inside Prospect Cottage, revealing something of its history and his experience of photographing there.
Aimee and Jaguar
AvErica Fischer
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
198 kr
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In the Berlin of 1942, Lilly Wust was married to a soldier and was the mother of four children. Her quiet domestic life was forever changed when she met and fell in love with Jewish Felice Schragenheim. Aimee and Jaguar, as the two called one another, embarked on an ecstatic affair, exchanging letters and poems and even signing a marriage contract. After only a year, their happiness was destroyed by the Gestapo: Felice was taken away to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Lilly received a last letter from Felice in 1945. Erica Fisher has documented this extraordinary story after spending countless hours talking to 80-year-old Lilly, and to friends and acquaintances of the two women. Her account, together with a collection of photographs, is a witness to an unusual love in a time of extremes.
Bi- och pansexualitet : dåtid, nutid, framtid
AvEdward Summanen
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
279 kr
Bisexualitet är den näst vanligaste sexuella läggningen, ändå saknas ofta såväl kunskap som berättelser att relatera till. Det bidrar till att bi- och pansexuella upplever ohälsa i större utsträckning än homo- och heterosexuella. Som bi- eller pansexuell riskerar man att möta okunskap och ifrågasättanden från både majoritetssamhället och andra hbtqi-personer.

Det är hög tid att prata mer om bi och pan. Inte bara om utmaningar och ojämlik hälsa utan också om möjligheter, gemenskap och identitet. Vad är viktigt för att må bra? Hur skiljer sig bisexualitet från pansexualitet? Finns det en bi/pan-rörelse i Sverige? Varför osynliggörs ofta bi/pan? Bi- och pansexualitet erbjuder en gedigen kunskapsbas och introducerar även fördjupande perspektiv. Genom personliga berättelser, forskning och yrkeserfarenhet ges en samlad bild av bi- och pansexuellas vardag, historia och hälsa i en svensk kontext.

Boken vänder sig till dig som vill lära dig mer om bi- och pansexualitet, som privatperson eller i din yrkesroll.

Edward Summanen är socionom och genusvetare som arbetat med hälsa och livsvillkor för hbtqi-personer sedan 2008. Han har skrivit flera böcker med fokus på hbtqi-frågor, bland annat var han en av redaktörerna för Trans – fakta, forskning och erfarenheter som tilldelades Prisma Litteraturpris 2023.

Sagt om boken:

”Boken är både välstrukturerad och lättillgänglig. Den är sakligt och kortfattat skriven utan att upplevas som torr.”Tove Mogren, Svensk Psykiatri nr 3, 2025

”Den här boken består av olika delar som pedagogiskt förklarar relevanta begrepp, sammanfattar forskning om bi- och pansexualitet och lyfter såväl historiska som nutida diskussioner. Utan att tumma på varje individs rätt till självidentifikation lyckas Summanen förklara bi- och pansexualitet på ett sätt som är lätt att ta till sig. Den här boken är utan tvekan ett måste i händerna på såväl kuratorer, lärare och en rad andra yrken. Och i händerna på hbtqia-personer själva, förstås.” Helhetsbetyg 5/5.Camilla Bergvall, BTJ-häftet nr 10, 2025
Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line
A Hidden History of Queer Women
AvElizabeth Lovatt
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
157 kr
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*Shortlisted for the 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE**'Compelling, funny, intelligent . . . Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a remarkable piece of work.' Kerry Hudson, Observer'Utterly essential queer reading.' Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB'Deliciously informative and rigorously researched . . . I loved it.' Julia Bell, author of DIRTY WORKWith warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s while also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family.With callers and agents alike dealing with first crushes and breakups, sex and marriage, loneliness and illness (or simply the need to know the name of a gay bar on a night out), this is a celebration of the ordinary lives of queer women.Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is a timely and vital exploration of how lesbian identity continues to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century and where it might lead us in the future.
10% rabatt på allt
Bög för livet : en memoar
AvArne Nilsson
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
299 kr
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Arne Nilsson växte upp i folkhemstidens Göteborg. Som inte ”riktig” kille och bög skaffade han sig olika strategier för att navigera i en heteronormativ och homofob värld. Som att vara till lags, få andra att känna sig bekväma och skapa tystnader. När han blev äldre blev de mer till förfång och han drabbades av ångest. Med hjälp av flera års psykoterapi lyckades han fyrtio år gammal på darrande ben stå upp för sig själv. Hur skulle det gå för honom? I Bög för livet berättar han om sin fortsatta livsresa. Om ett homoliv i skuggan av hiv och aids. Ett liv som rymde såväl tvåsamhet som cruising. Han berättar om sin väg från utredare till en av den svenska queerforskningens pionjärer. Hur han tog sig ut i världen som turist, forskningsresande och aktivist, till storstäder, regnskogar, queera badorter, Palestina … Han berättar om förlusten av sin livspartner och om sitt liv som åldrande singelbög. Och hur det gick med de där strategierna. Bög för livet är en fristående fortsättning på memoarerna Bög i folkhemmet och Bög på klassresa.
All the Young Men
How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
AvRuth Coker Burks
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
165 kr
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'This book will make you love her as much as I do' FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON 'Breath-taking courage and compassion [...]a beautiful book' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice'GUARDIAN 'An extraordinary tale' EVENING STANDARD 'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to the shared grave of two men in love, and it's in caring for that young man who just needed information without judgement.' In 1986, 26-year-old Ruth Coker Burks visits a friend in hospital when she notices that the door to one of the patient's rooms is painted red. The nurses are reluctant to enter, drawing straws to decide who will tend to the sick person inside. Out of impulse, Ruth herself enters the quarantined space and begins to care for the young man who cries for his mother in the last moments of his life. And in doing so, Ruth's own life changes forever. As word spreads in the community that she is the only person willing to help the young men afflicted by the growing AIDS crisis, Ruth goes from being an ordinary young mother to an accidental activist. Forging deep friendships with the men she helps, Ruth works to find them housing and jobs, and then funeral homes willing to take their bodies - often in the middle of the night. She prepares and delivers meals to 'her guys,' supplementing her own income with discarded food found in the dumpsters behind supermarkets. She defies local pastors and the medical community to store rare medications for her most urgent patients, and teaches sex education to drag queens after hours at secret bars. Emboldened by the weight of their collective pain, she fervently advocates for their safety and visibility, ultimately advising Governor Bill Clinton on the national HIV-AIDS crisis, and in doing so becomes a beacon of hope to an otherwise spurned group of ailing gay men on the fringes of society. Ruth kept her story a secret for years, fearful of repercussions within her deeply conservative community. But at a time when it's more important than ever to stand up for those who can't, Ruth has found the courage to have her voice - and the voices of those who were stigmatised, rejected and abandoned - heard.