Books like We Want It All by Andrea Abi-Karam

A groundbreaking memoir that blends personal narrative with rigorous theory, charting Maggie Nelson’s queer romance, pregnancy, and the politics of love and family.

Kai Cheng Thom’s collection of essays and prose poems explores love, justice, and healing amid social fragmentation, offering thoughtful reflections on violence, complicity, and forgiveness in contemporary life.

In eighteenth‑century London, Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess are famed thieves and lovers whose true story has never been recorded—until a scholar finds a long‑lost manuscript that may be a gender‑defying confession or a hoax.

A powerful poetry collection that examines police violence, sexuality, and HIV through the lens of black, gay, and transgender experiences in America.

Poetry. Braiding theoretic concerns with the ambivalences of sexed and raced identity.WANTING IN ARABIC attempts to traverse the fantasies of foundational loss and aggressive nostalgia in order to further a poetics of a conscious partiality of being, of generous struggle and comic rather than tragic misrecognition.

Reading some of the best-known Torah stories through the lens of transgender experience, Joy Ladin explores fundamental questions about how religious texts, traditions, and the understanding of God can be enriched by transgender perspectives, and how the Torah and trans lives can illuminate one another. Drawing on her own experience and lifelong reading practice, Ladin shows how the Torah, a collection of ancient texts that assume human beings are either male or female, speaks both to practical transgender concerns, such as marginalization, and to the challenges of living without a body or social role that renders one intelligible to others―challenges that can help us understand a God who defies all human categories. These creative, evocative readings transform our understanding of the Torah’s portrayals of God, humanity, and relationships between them.

Arielle Twist’s debut poetry collection explores grief, trauma, displacement and gender identity from the perspective of an Indigenous trans woman, weaving rage and tenderness into a hopeful, transcendent vision.

A collection of feminist poems exploring themes of womanhood, motherhood, and the complexities of gender roles.

A curated anthology of LGBTQ poetry from 1950 to the present, featuring American voices from the gay and lesbian communities.

In an alley behind a cow‑country bar, Warren Miller witnesses men preparing to assault a queer man and confronts unexpected desires within himself.

In this debut poetry collection, Kai Cheng Thom blends memory, mythology, and queer punk to chart new maps of gender, race, sexuality, and violence, drawing on oral storytelling traditions.

A queer love letter interwoven with encyclopedia entries, chronicling a trans woman’s grief and longing for a dead straight trans friend, while exploring pop culture, karaoke, birding, and other pleasures.