Lectures on Gender and Sexuality Resource List

This is a list of new resources added to the library through the lecture series.

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Academic Books

  1. Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (Vanja Hamzic, 2019)
  2. Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis: Reimagining Justice in the Criminal Legal System and Beyond (Carrie L. Buist & Lindsay Kahle Semprevivo (eds.), 2023)
  3. The Gang's All Queer: The Lives of Gay Gang Members (Vanessa R. Panfil, 2017)
  4. Intersex Embodiment: Legal Frameworks Beyond Identity and Disorder (Fae Garland & Mitchell Travis, 2023)
  5. The Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Relationships: Emerging Families in Ireland and Beyond (Brian Tobin, 2023)
  6.  Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood (Sandra Patton-Imani, 2020)
  7.  Legal Recognition of Non-Conjugal Families: New Frontiers in Family Law in the US, Canada and Europe (Nausica Palazzo, 2022)
  8.  Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (Nishant Shahani, 2021)
  9. Queering Black Atlantic Religions: Transcorporeality in Candomblé, Santería, and Vodou (Roberto Strongman, 2019)
  10. Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (Lisa Rofel, 2007)
  11. Shanghai Lalas: Female Tongzhi Communities and Politics in Urban China (Lucetta Yip Lo Kam, 2012)
  12. Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (Hongwei Bao, 2018)
  13. Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism (Hongwei Bao, 2020)
  14. Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography (Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, 2015)
  15. Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (John Wei, 2020)
  16. Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China (Lin Song, 2021)
  17. Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West (Fran Martin, 2022)
  18. Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’: Legal and Policy Perspectives (Ilias Trispiotis, 2022)
  19. Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Injury, Intimacy and Identity (Senthorun Sunil Raj, 2021)
  20. The Queer Outside in Law: Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (Senthorun Raj & Peter Dunne (eds.), 2021)
  21. Gay Priori: A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform (Libby Adler, 2018)
  22. Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman (Leslie Feinberg, 1997)
  23. We are Family: What Really Matters for Parents and Children (Susan Golombok, 2021)
  24. A Queer Theory of the State (Samuel Clowes Huneke, 2023)
  25. Sexuality, Abjection and Queer Existence in Contemporary India (Pushpesh Kumar, 2022)
  26. The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore (Devdutt Pattanaik, 2001)
  27. The Law of Desire: Rulings on Sex and Sexuality in India (Madhavi Menon, 2021)
  28. Facing the Mirror: Lesbian Writings from India ( (ed.), 1999)

Auto/Biographical Books

  1. I am Vidya: A Transgender’s Journey (Living Smile Vidya, 2013)
  2. A Life in Trans Activism (A. Revathi, 2016)
  3. Small: On Motherhoods (Claire Lynch, 2021)
  4. Stories of Our Lives: An Archive of Kenyan Queer Narratives (The NEST Collective, 2020)
  5. Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson (Ellen Louise Hart & Martha Nell Smith (eds.), 1998)
  6. Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx ( & (eds.), 2023)
  7. Footprints of a Queer History: Life Stories from Gujarat (Maya Sharma, 2022)

Poetry Collections

  1. Queer Icons: A Queer Bodies Anthology (Day Mattar & Brendan Curtis (eds.), 2022)
  2. Against Heaven: Poems (Kemi Alabi, 2022)
  3. If They Come For Us (Fatimah Asghar, 2019)
  4. Postcolonial Love Poem (Natalie Diaz, 2020)
  5. You Better Be Lightning (Andrea Gibson, 2021)
  6. The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak (Grace Lau, 2021)
  7. Indecency (Justin Phillip Reed, 2018)
  8. Collective Amnesia (Koleka Putuma, 2021)
  9. [Insert] Boy (Danez Smith, 2014)
  10. Homie (Danez Smith, 2020)
  11. In Full Velvet (Jenny Johnson, 2017)
  12. The Human Line (Ellen Bass, 2007)
  13. When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (Chen Chen, 2017)
  14. Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (Chen Chen, 2022)
  15. The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (Stephen Coote (ed.), 1986)
  16. The Broken Rainbow (Ruth Vanita, 2023)

Graphic Novels

  1. Kari (Amruta Patil, 2008)
  2. Nimona (Noelle Stevenson, 2015)
  3. On a Sunbeam (Tillie Walden, 2018)
  4. Dates! An Anthology of Queer Historical Fiction Stories, Vol. II (Zora Gilbert and Cat Parra (eds.), 2015)

Fiction Novels

  1. Bellies (Nicola Dinan, 2023)