A Year of Queer, Trans, Butch, and Female Masculinities

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12 participants (92 books)

07 Jan 2025—07 Jan 2026

Overview

Twelve months for you to read books about lesbian, queer, trans, or female masculinities. Manhood optional, but possible. Books about butches, mascs, bois, men by choice, trans men,  female men, and liberating cis masculinity.

Challenge Books

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Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender by Sally R. Munt

Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender

Sally R. Munt

244 pages • 1997 • 1 edition

nonfiction lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
[Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology by Mutsumi Natsuo, Mirin (@eemasani_1), Jackie (@jackie012e), Nekobungi Sumire, minto, Nerikomi Toukichirou, Hanakage Alt, Chiruda Shimako, Sumire Edakichi, Noe

[Boyish²] Butch×Butch Yuri Anthology

Mutsumi Natsuo, Mirin (@eemasani_1), Jackie (@jackie012e), Nekobungi Sumire, minto, Nerikomi Toukichirou, Hanakage Alt, Chiruda Shimako, Sumire Edakichi, Noe

220 pages • 2021 • 4 editions

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fiction lgbtqia+ manga romance adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction by Lee Mandelo

Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction

Lee Mandelo

276 pages • 2012 • 4 editions

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories speculative fiction adventurous challenging reflective slow-paced
An Apartment on Uranus by Paul B. Preciado

An Apartment on Uranus

Paul B. Preciado

275 pages • 2019 • 23 editions

nonfiction gender lgbtqia+ challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing by Catherine E. McKinley

Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing

Catherine E. McKinley

336 pages • 1995 • 4 editions

nonfiction essays lgbtqia+ poetry short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
Boys Like Her: Transfictions by Ivan Coyote, Anna Camilleri, Taste This, Lyndell Montgomery, Kate Bornstein, Zoë Eakle

Boys Like Her: Transfictions

Ivan Coyote, Anna Camilleri, Taste This, Lyndell Montgomery, Kate Bornstein, Zoë Eakle

224 pages • 1998 • 1 edition

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced
Masculinities Without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions by Jean Bobby Noble

Sexuality Studies

Masculinities Without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions

Jean Bobby Noble

222 pages • 2003 • 3 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ informative reflective medium-paced
Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex by Finn Mackay

Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex

Finn Mackay

264 pages • 2021 • 3 editions

nonfiction lgbtqia+ sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Woods All Black by Lee Mandelo

The Woods All Black

Lee Mandelo

150 pages • 2024 • 4 editions

fiction historical horror lgbtqia+ romance dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica by Rachel K. Zall, Rahne Alexander, Alicia E. Goranson, S. Bear Bergman, Ivan Coyote, Patrick Califia, Kiki DeLovely, Shawna Virago, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Andrea Zanin, Toni Amato, Gina de Vries, Kate Bornstein, Tristan Taormino, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Julia Serano, Helen Boyd, Julia Serrano, Laura Antoniou, Sinclair Sexsmith

Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica

Rachel K. Zall, Rahne Alexander, Alicia E. Goranson, S. Bear Bergman, Ivan Coyote, Patrick Califia, Kiki DeLovely, Shawna Virago, Tobi Hill-Meyer, Andrea Zanin, Toni Amato, Gina de Vries, Kate Bornstein, Tristan Taormino, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Julia Serano, Helen Boyd, Julia Serrano, Laura Antoniou, Sinclair Sexsmith

293 pages • 2011 • 3 editions

fiction erotica gender lgbtqia+ short stories challenging fast-paced