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NEW: A queer and trans Palestine reading list
UPDATED: Top banned books are now available on Trans Reads
Queer and Trans Palestine
• This Arab is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
• Citation and Censorship: The Politics of Talking About the Sexual Politics of Israel (Jasbir Puar)
• “Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv”: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude (Saffo Papantonopoulou)
• To Exist Is to Resist: Palestine and the Question of Queer Theory (C. Heike Schotten)
• Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Angela Davis)
• Journal of Palestine Studies (open access)
• Queer Necropolitics (in Haritaworn, Adi Kuntsman, and Silvia Posocco)
• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Sa’ed Atshan)
• Reciprocal Solidarity:Where the Black and Palestinian Queer Struggles Meet (Sa’ed Atshan and Darnell L. Moore)
• The Right to Maim (Jasbir Puar)
• Roundtable: On Palestinian Studies and Queer Theory (Nadine Naber et al.)
• TERFism, Zionism, and Right-Wing Annihilationism: Toward an Internationalist Genealogy of Extinction Phobia (C. Heike Schotten)
• Terrorist Assemblages (Jasbir Puar)
Top Banned Books:
Note: we strongly suggest donating to authors’ Patreons or requesting banned books at your local libraries to support the writers!
• The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater
• Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• The Breakaways by Cathy G. Johnson
• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
• Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
• If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo
• Lily and Dunkin by Donna Gephart
• Melissa by Alex Gino
• Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
• This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
• Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard by Alex Bertie
• When Aidan Became a Brother by Kyle Lukoff
More Free Stuff:
• Black Lives Matter Instructional Library Read-Aloud books
• Sociologists for Trans Justice #TransJusticeSyllabus
• Anna’s Archive
• Marxists Internet Archive Library
• Library Genesis
• Project Gutenberg
• Z-Library
