June Weekend Reads: Celebrating Pride
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Happy Pride Month from Sprague Library! We’re dedicated to embracing and celebrating diversity here at Montclair State. This month we’ve selected an assortment of print books about LGBT+ history that you can check out of the library. Keep your eyes peeled for the continuation of our Pride Month spotlight featuring eBooks later in the month.
Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution by Susan Stryker
“Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.”
Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker
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 of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged.”
Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C Riley Snorton
“Drawing on a deep and varied archive of materials–early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, Hollywood films–Snorton identifies multiple intersections between blackness and transness from the mid-nineteenth century to present-day anti-black and anti-trans legislation and violence.”