Catalog

Alison Bechdel

A cartoonist examines her complicated bond with her mother through psychoanalytic theory and Virginia Woolf.

Derecka Purnell

A civil rights lawyer’s personal and political journey from believing in police reform to organizing for abolition.

Roz Chast

A cartoonist’s wry, aching memoir of caring for her aging parents through their final years.

Joy Harjo

The U.S. Poet Laureate’s memoir of coming into her own voice, her Muscogee heritage, and her survival.

Eli Clare

A landmark memoir-essay collection on disability, queerness, class, and the body — foundational disability justice writing.

Miguel M. Morales (ed.)

An anthology centering fat queer and trans bodies and lives, in essay, poetry, and memoir.

Alison Bechdel

A cartoonist’s memoir of her closeted father, her own coming out, and the funeral home they called ’the fun home.’

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (trans. Janet Hong)

A survivor’s account of Japanese wartime sexual slavery during WWII — heavy, unflinching, and important.

Lamya H.

A queer, Muslim memoir that reads the Quran’s stories alongside a life spent between identities that weren’t supposed to fit together.

Resmaa Menakem

A therapist’s argument that racialized trauma lives in the body, and that healing has to start there too.

Micah Rajunov (ed.)

An anthology of nonbinary writers on gender outside the binary, in their own words.

Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia

Poor-people-led theory, art, and testimony on homelessness and survival, written from lived experience rather than about it.

Kristen Radtke

A graphic essay on the history and shape of American loneliness, woven through with the author’s own life.

Marjane Satrapi

A girl’s coming-of-age during and after the Iranian Revolution, told in stark, unforgettable black and white.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

A particle physicist weaves dark matter, the history of Black astronomy, and her own life into a case for a more just science.

Alison Bechdel

A memoir of the author’s lifelong string of fitness obsessions — and what she was really chasing the whole time.

Wisam Rafeedie

A political memoir written from inside a Palestinian resistance movement.

Fintan O’Toole

A personal-and-national history of modern Ireland, told alongside the author’s own life.