• A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability

    A Quick & Easy Guide to Sex & Disability

    Andrews, A. (Cartoonist)

    GN Nonfiction. This short guide offers practical advice to disabled and abled people, to understand disability sexuality and dispel common misconceptions about disabled people's bodies.

    Format: Graphic Novel

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  • Light From Uncommon Stars

    Light From Uncommon Stars

    Aoki, Ryka

    Fiction. A trans teen girl runs away from abuse, makes a deal with the Queen of Hell, and joins forces with an extraterrestrial refugee/donut maker, in this out-of-the-box sci-fi novel about building refuge in a hostile world.

    Format: Book

    Availability: All copies in use

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  • Loving Our Own Bones

    Loving Our Own Bones

    Belser, Julia Watts

    Nonfiction. Written by a queer disabled Jewish feminist, this National Jewish Book Award winning title discusses the intersections of spirituality and disability justice through Belser's insights of the Bible and social justice theorists.

    Format: Book

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  • Body Talk

    Body Talk

    YA Nonfiction. Featuring work from a range of public figures, activists, and artists, this YA anthology explores the political, social, and emotional experiences of having a body.

    Format: Book

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  • Abortion Beyond the Law

    Abortion Beyond the Law

    Braine, Naomi

    Nonfiction. Sociologist Naomi Braine describes international examples of reproductive mutual aid, where feminist networks ensure safe access to abortion pills, information, and resources. Covering the tactics and strategies of African, Latin American, and European organizers, this book traces lines of transnational solidarity in the fight for reproductive freedom.

    Format: Book

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  • #veryfat #verybrave

    #veryfat #verybrave

    Byer, Nicole

    Nonfiction. Mocking the back-handed responses fat women receive when they post photos of themselves in swimwear, comedian and TV host Nicole Byer uses humor, portraiture, and unapologetic sarcasm to critique overt and insidious fatphobia and to underscore the fact that every body is a bikini body.

    Format: Book

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  • Gordo

    Gordo

    Cortez, Jaime

    Fiction. A finalist for the 2022 Lambda Award for Gay Fiction, this collection of short stories is set in 1970's Watsonville, California, where a young, fat, queer son of Mexican migrant workers comes of age

    Format: Book

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  • Twisted

    Twisted

    Dabiri, Emma

    Nonfiction. Irish author and Guardian columnist Emma Dabiri outlines the ways that racism and capitalism go to work on societal perceptions of Black hair. Through her research and accessible analysis, Dabiri reflects how we might understand the culture of Black hair in the context of both oppression and liberation.

    Format: Book

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  • Every Body Shines

    Every Body Shines

    YA Fiction. A multi-genre YA fiction anthology, sixteen stories with fat main characters span a wide range of experiences and emotions -- all written by authors with lived experience of fatphobia.

    Format: Book

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  • Belly of the Beast

    Belly of the Beast

    Harrison, Da'Shaun

    Nonfiction. This 2022 Lambda Award winning book details the shared roots of anti-fat and anti-Black violence, and how these systems uniquely interact with transphobia, carceral logic, desirability politics, and the so-called health and wellness industries.

    Format: Book

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