Books like Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist

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

Indecency is a collection of poems in which Justin Phillip Reed uses language to expose inequity, challenge white supremacy, and critique structures of discrimination, masculinity, sexuality, and the prison industrial complex.

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

Ursula K. Le Guin’s first anthology of her 13 celebrated science‑fiction novellas, including the Tiptree‑award winner "The Matter of Seggri," bound in a single volume with an introductory essay.

Now in paperback, a spellbinding reinvention and exploration of self, gender, and family. Like nothing before it, in Rocket Fantastic explores the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems that entwine a fabular past with an iridescent future by blurring, with disarming vulnerability, the real and the imaginary. Sorcerous, jazz-tinged, erotic, and wide-eyed, this is a pioneering work by a space-age balladeer. “A dance of self-discovery, subverting our assumptions of gender and the body. . . Both innovative and sensual, Rocket Fantastic is a vital book for our time.”―Diana Whitney, San Francisco Chronicle

Hélène Cixous’ 1983 French work, *Le Livre de Promethea*, explores the intimate bond between two women, blending physical presence with an expansive sense of love through a feminist poetic lens; it was later rendered in English by Betsy Wing.

A Two-Spirit Journey is Ma-Nee Chacaby's extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From her early, often harrowing memories of life and abuse in a remote Ojibwa community riven by poverty and alcoholism, Chacaby's story is one of enduring and ultimately overcoming the social, economic, and health legacies of colonialism. As a child, Chacaby learned spiritual and cultural traditions from her Cree grandmother and trapping, hunting, and bush survival skills from her Ojibwa stepfather. She also suffered physical and sexual abuse by different adults, and in her teen years became alcoholic herself. At twenty, Chacaby moved to Thunder Bay with her children to escape an abusive marriage. Abuse, compounded by racism, continued, but Chacaby found supports to help herself and others. Over the following decades, she achieved sobriety; trained and worked as an alcoholism counselor; raised her children and fostered many others; learned to live with visual impairment; and came out as a lesbian. In 2013, Chacaby led the first gay pride parade in Thunder Bay. Ma-Nee Chacaby has emerged from hardship grounded in faith, compassion, humour, and resilience. Her memoir provides unprecedented insights into the challenges still faced by many Indigenous people.

Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in moments of connection achieved. --amazon.com

An anthology of radical transgender poetry exploring transformative narratives of desire and identity in the face of social movements and revolutionary demands.

A compelling anthology of poetry and prose by Los Angeles lesbian writers from the 1980s, showcasing the rich creative output and vibrant community of LGBTQ voices.

A surreal collection of eighteen poems that double as somatic rituals, exploring grief, politics, and the healing power of language.

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.