Books like On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Gail Berlant

The Power of Habit shows how tiny habits shape our lives and how they can be transformed to achieve personal and organizational success.

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

A powerful and terrifying warning about the dire consequences of global warming, from the acclaimed author of The Seven Obstacles to Climate Change.

Judith Butler’s seminal text challenges essentialist views of sex and gender, proposing that identity is constructed through repeated social performances.

Julia Serano’s *Excluded* interrogates how feminist and queer movements, while opposing sexism, can inadvertently impose strict norms on gender and sexuality, echoing the same exclusions they challenge.

Deviations assembles Gayle S. Rubin’s seminal essays—from feminist classics like "The Traffic in Women" and "Thinking Sex" to in-depth studies on lesbian history, sadomasochism, and sex‑knowledge, charting her influence on queer theory and feminist thought.

Q & A brings together activists, essayists, artists and scholars to examine how queer identity intersects with Asian-American racial identity, exploring hybridity, multiplicity, and the evolving landscape of LGBTQ Asian-American communities at the turn of the millennium.

There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz 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. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.

A critical examination of how computer culture reshapes the minds of children and adults, blending themes of mechanical determinism with a resurgence of mysticism and spirituality.

Annamarie Jagose’s Queer Theory offers a clear, concise exploration of how queer theory has reshaped understandings of sexuality, gender, and identity, drawing on key thinkers to challenge fixed categories.

"Have you ever heard the phrase "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission?" Violating consent isn't limited to sexual relationships, and our discussions around consent shouldn't be, either. To resist rape culture, we need a consent culture--and one that is more than just reactionary. Left confined to intimate spaces, consent will atrophy as theory that is never put into practice. The multi-layered power disparities of today's world require a response sensitive to a wide range of lived experiences. In Ask, Kitty Stryker assembles a retinue of writers, journalists, and activists to examine how a cultural politic centered on consent can empower us outside the bedroom, whether it's at the doctor's office, interacting with law enforcement, or calling out financial abuse within radical communities. More than a collection of essays, Ask is a testimony and guide on the role that negated consent plays in our lives, examining how we can take those first steps to reclaim it from institutionalized power"-- "A collection of essays by writers, journalists and activists exploring the role of consent in confronting power structures in day-to-day life"--

Saint Foucault argues that Michel Foucault’s ideas about sexuality as a function of discourse provided a strategic foundation for gay political activism and queer theory, defending his legacy against recent attacks.