Books like My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

Alex Claremont-Diaz, the United States’ First Son, confronts diplomatic drama when he falls for the Prince of Wales, Henry. Their staged truce turns into a real romance that could reshape politics and personal identities alike.

Gavin Guile, the powerful Prism who governs as high priest and emperor, must complete five impossible goals in five years while concealing a son’s existence that threatens the fragile peace of his world.

In 1983 London, twenty‑year‑old Nick Guest, a recent Oxford graduate, becomes entangled in the lavish, politically charged world of MP Gerald Feddens, his wife Rachel, and their family, discovering love, ambition, and the temptations of an era in sharp, humor‑laden prose.

Caseworker Linus travels to a remote orphanage to investigate ragged kids and their enigmatic caretaker Arthur, only to discover that the island’s magical children—and his own heart—are part of something larger than he imagined.

In Harlem, Xiomara Batista learns to use her voice and verse to fight for herself and her dreams, turning lyrical poetry into her most powerful tool.

A half‑Persian teenager struggling with depression finds belonging in Iran when a new friend shows him what it means to be truly understood.

A timely anthology of essays, manifestos, and testimonies by disabled writers, highlighting their visibility and political advocacy in the United States.

A haunting tale of three men battling AIDS and seeking love and meaning in the 1980s LA community.

A collection of Larry Kramer’s forceful essays that galvanized the gay community through political activism, health advocacy, and personal narrative.

In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the streets. But by the early 1990s, the organization they founded, ACT UP, was no more—even as the AIDS epidemic raged on. Weaving together interviews with activists, extensive research, and reflections on the author’s time as a member of the organization, Moving Politics is the first book to chronicle the rise and fall of ACT UP, highlighting a key factor in its trajectory: emotion. Surprisingly overlooked by many scholars of social movements, emotion, Gould argues, plays a fundamental role in political activism. From anger to hope, pride to shame, and solidarity to despair, feelings played a significant part in ACT UP’s provocative style of protest, which included raucous demonstrations, die-ins, and other kinds of street theater. Detailing the movement’s public triumphs and private setbacks, Moving Politics is the definitive account of ACT UP’s origin, development, and decline as well as a searching look at the role of emotion in contentious politics.

A candid memoir of Cleve Jones, activist, and AIDS advocate, tracing his rise in 1970s San Francisco, his partnership with Harvey Milk, and his battles against the AIDS crisis, culminating in founding the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Set in New York’s East Village, *Christodora* follows Milly and Jared, a young artistic couple, as they confront love, addiction and the legacy of AIDS activism through their neighbor Hector and adopted son Mateo.