Turban, Jack L.
Summary: "An authoritative guide to understanding and navigating gender identity from an acclaimed expert on the mental health of transgender and gender diverse youth. Kids today are more gender fluent and expansive than ever before. Over 700,000 teenagers in America openly identify as transgender, a number that is rising each year. As it becomes increasingly common for us to encounter and know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85 TURGonzalez, Maya Christina
Summary: ""This is our world. Like many things in nature it's round and holds everyone at the same time. This is the Gender Wheel. Like our world it's round and holds everyone at the same time too..." In 2010 Maya introduced the Gender Wheel and the Gender Team in the Gender Now Coloring Book. It was a jam-packed coloring extravaganza exploring bodies, nature and history in relation to multiple gender...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reflection Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.3 GONSoh, Debra
Summary: "Is our gender something we're born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. Debra Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs. nurture debate and exploring what it means to be a woman or a man in today's society. Both scientific and objective, and drawing on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult SohBarker, Meg-John
Summary: "An essential comic-book journey from the creators of Queer: A Graphic History that will change the way you think about gender. Is masculinity 'toxic?' Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for whom? Why might we all benefit from challenging binary thinking about sex/gender? In this unique illustrated guide, Meg-John Barker and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books Ltd 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 BARHoffman-Fox, Dara
Summary: In this groundbreaking guide, Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC, accomplished gender therapist and thought leader whose articles, blogs, and videos have empowered thousands worldwide, helps you navigate your journey of self-discovery in three approachable stages: preparation, reflection, and exploration.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 HOFLäuger, Louie
Summary: "A lively, informative, and engaging guide to gender by an author-illustrator who helps readers understand the multiplicity of answers to "what even is gender?""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 LAUHancox, Lewis
Summary: In this sequel to the Indie bestseller WELCOME TO ST. HELL, Lewis Hancox tells the hilarious, inspiring story of coming into his own as a trans man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 HANGottlieb, Iris
Summary: "Gender is an intensely personal, yet universal, facet of humanity. In this vibrant book, queer author and artist Iris Gottlieb visually explores gender in all of its complexities, answering questions and providing guidance while also mining history and pop culture for the stories and people who have shaped the conversation on gender"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.3 GOTPasschier, Andy
Summary: "This book introduces different terms for gender identity and expression, while also teaching children how to accept and respect others"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.3 PASGoetz, Teddy G.
Summary: "Spoiler alert: gender norms might not be so "normal" after all. Gender is a self-understanding influenced by society, culture and personal experiences. Sex, in contrast, is a biological term. Neither of which is binary! This graphic medicine comic is a unique exploration into the intersection of gender identity, sex and their inherent strangeness"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, an imprint of John Murray Press, part of Hodder & Stoughton Limited 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 GOEParish, Theo
Summary: "In this intimate and defiantly hopeful graphic novel memoir, the author shares their journey to find a home within themself, taking readers through the experiences and everyday moments that all led up to them finding the term "nonbinary," which finally struck a chord.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 PARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC PARHancox, Lewis
Summary: "Lewis has a few things to say to his younger teen self. He knows she hates her body. He knows she's confused about who to snog. He knows she's really a he and will ultimately realize this. But she's going to go through a whole lot of mess (some of it funny, some of it not funny at all) to get to that point. Lewis is trying to tell her this ... but she can't quite hear him yet. In [this book],...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022
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2 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 921 HANKobabe, Maia
Summary: "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 KOBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOBBarker, Meg-John
Summary: "Gay, straight, queer, pansexual, demisexual, ace...? Sexuality is complex and diverse, but it doesn't have to be confusing. This down-to-earth guide is the ultimate companion for understanding, accepting, and celebrating your sexuality. Written by two internationally renowned authors, the book explains how sexuality works in terms of our identities, attractions, desires, and practices, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 BARAmer, Lindz
Summary: "A young informational storybook introducing the concept of pronouns and identifying one's pronouns to kids"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: Introduces readers to the pride movement, from its beginnings at the Stonewall Riots to the LGBTQ rights movement, the first pride parade, the creation of the rainbow flag, and legislation such as the Matthew Shephard Act and the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.38 FELG, Mady (Mady M. Giuliani)
Summary: A guide to queer and transgender life, in graphic format, covers essential topics ranging from sexuality and gender identity to coming out and navigating gender-diverse relationships.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Limerence Press, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 306.7 GLight, Char
Summary: "Throughout human history, societies around the world have developed varying concepts of gender that affect the roles its citizens play in their communities. There is an equally rich history of individuals who reject, subvert, expand, or explore the gender roles of their society. This book serves as an accessible introduction to the history of gender and conversations on gender identity...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.3 LIGPrince, Liz
Summary: Eschewing female stereotypes throughout her early years and failing to gain acceptance on the boys' baseball team, Liz learns to embrace her own views on gender as she comes of age, in an anecdotal graphic novel memoir.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 PRIBarker, Meg-John
Summary: "Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.76 BARParks, Casey
Summary: "When Casey Parks came out as a lesbian in college back in 2002, she assumed her life in the rural South was over. Her mother shunned her, and her pastor asked God to kill her. But then Parks' grandmother, a stern conservative who grew up picking cotton, shared a story about her childhood friend, Roy Hudgins, a musician who was allegedly kidnapped as a baby and was "a woman who lived as a man."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, CASEY PARBennett, Andrea (Andrea Kathleen)
Summary: "A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.3 BENSummary: What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019
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Summary: "Author Lee Wind takes readers across the globe to examine gender identity and representation throughout history. Learn how cultures both past and present debunk the idea of a gender binary"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2024